We spoke with Alveos CEO Patrick Obolgogiani about measuring breathing from the chest, real-time interventions, and the science behind it.

Google backs Flo, Resmed invests in Eight Sleep, and TIME’s top inventions are full of health sensors

The $179.99 tracker adds GPS, ECG, and a seven-day battery, sitting somewhere between the screenless Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch.

Apple is prototyping a screenless health band as its Watch and Health app move deeper into recovery, readiness, and long-term health tracking.

Bluetooth-enabled basketballs are being tested in NBA preseason games as the league continues exploring integrated sensors across officiating and performance.

The smart ring can estimate systolic and diastolic pressure without a cuff or individual calibration and is backed by validation against arterial-line measurements.

The intradermal glucose patch uses seven microsensors and can show glucose ranges directly on the device without requiring a phone.

The $499 headphones use 12 EEG sensors to track focus, fatigue and longer-term brain metrics through an easy-to-use app.

The $249 at-home test sequences microbial DNA to identify complex UTIs, as Biotia expands its platform further into women’s health.

Health tracking is moving beyond watches and bands as rings, earrings, pendants and bracelets make continuous sensing easier to wear every day.

The SL-1 tracks sleep, recovery, and activity while giving QALO users a second form factor for training and manual work.

The smart ring maker delayed its Nasdaq listing as market volatility collided with an ambitious valuation of roughly nine times projected 2026 sales.

The €99 respiratory trainer removes sensors and connectivity while keeping guided resistance training for the breathing muscles.

The reported deal would add direct muscle oxygen sensing to Garmin’s growing training, coaching, and performance ecosystem.

The filing shows how reference glucose readings could teach a future Samsung wearable to interpret optical signals from an individual user.

One week of accelerometer data was associated with risk across dozens of diseases, suggesting simple wrist sensing contains information related to meaningful long-term health patterns.

The redesigned sleep system halves the Hub size, adds denser biometric sensing, and introduces a $1,999 Solo option.

The £399 wearable uses distributed motion and force sensing to track how athletes move, load and compensate during real training.

The startup is shrinking its light-based glucose sensing technology towards a wearable, after reporting early human accuracy data.

The British watch brand is bringing smart-ring tracking to £79.99, undercutting premium rivals while leaning on its familiar luxury-for-less model.

The sweat-sensor company wants to turn years of direct measurements into hydration algorithms that run inside external wearables and fitness platforms.

New Cortisol Pattern Wands add repeated at-home cortisol measurement to Mira’s existing at-home hormone tracking system.

The Ring will feed consented health data into Counsel Health as part of a new outcome-linked Medicare care model.

The $399 neck wearable adds adaptive stimulation and contact sensing as Pulsetto pushes VNS further into stress, sleep, and recovery.

Huawei, Apple, Google, RingConn, and Honor are taking very different approaches to bringing blood-pressure tracking into everyday wearables.

The 59-gram wearable hub combines location, movement, and third-party sensor data into one live stream for sports teams and software platforms.

Apple says Series 12 Watch leads wearable heart-rate accuracy. We looked at the published validation behind Apple, Oura, WHOOP, Garmin and Fitbit.

A U-RHYTHM study found repeated overnight hormone spikes, adding scientific evidence for the value of continuous hormone measurement.

More frequent heart sensing, Readiness and Health Age bring Apple closer to Oura, WHOOP and Garmin, but battery life remains a user constraint.

From non-invasive glucose estimates to AI hearing aids and full-leg exoskeletons, these were the health-tech launches worth a closer look.

Sonera’s chip-scale sensors can read magnetic muscle signals, with potential uses across watches, earbuds, glasses and health monitoring.

An early preprint found Temple’s Brain Flow metric tracked Doppler-measured changes at around 0.8 correlation during exercise and posture tests.

Oura’s IPO filing reveals the recurring revenue model that Ultrahuman, Circular, RingConn and potentially Garmin are now trying to challenge.

A year-long UCSF study will test whether Galaxy Watch signals can track changes in cognitive performance across 1,000 adults.

Clair combines wearable sensors and machine learning to continuously estimate reproductive hormone patterns from physiological data.

Pulsetto tracked half-marathon runners using vagus nerve stimulation, pairing recovery protocols with wearable data on sleep, HRV, and readiness.

Oura is pairing cognitive tests with continuous ring data to study how sleep, stress, activity, and physiology relate to brain health.

Prophetic is bringing transcranial ultrasound into the bedroom with a $449 headband that claims to increase dream lucidity, recall, and control.

Sabi says its upcoming beanie combines up to 100,000 EEG sensors with AI to convert internal speech into text at over 30 words per minute.

WHOOP and Oura are moving toward stress, cognition, and mental-health insights without adding brain sensors. Their existing data may already be enough.

Apple has patented AirPods that can measure EEG and other biosignals, while startups are already testing whether brain-sensing earbuds have a consumer use case.

NextSense is putting six EEG sensors inside wireless earbuds to measure sleep directly and deliver audio based on brain activity.

Nike Mind uses 22 moving nodes underfoot to increase sensory input, with the company positioning the shoes around focus and pre-game preparation.