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tomorrow's fitness trackers will come in new forms I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update it's another day at the consumer electronics show in las vegas and the tech news train keeps on rolling the convention center show floor has been swarming with people checking out the future gadgets of 2016 and one of the trends were seen is a focus around health and new ways to track fitness Fitbit is a popular fitness tracking brand that showcased a new watch called the blaze now it still tracks the same activity but now it has a color screen you can strap into different bands and cases to fit your style it also links to your phone for some notifications like text messages and appointment reminders and it includes some preinstalled workout coaching programs it comes out in March for two hundred dollars but while Fitbit was showing off this new gadget it also was hit with a class-action lawsuit from users that claim its heart rate monitors are inaccurate and that the devices don't count every beat some claim it only counts half of your beats per minute with questions around accuracy and fitness trackers maybe you don't want to spend two hundred dollars and so we're seeing many cheaper options on the show floor the huawei honor band z1 only costs eighty dollars it comes out this month it has a round SmartWatch design and along with fitness tracking it gives you some missed message notifications from your phone it's not really heavy on apps the width eames go is a seventy dollar fitness tracker it has an e-tank screen so it's always on the battery lasts eight months now it just shows you your daily fitness progress but when you click on the screen you also get the time it could be worn on a band or put in a clip and you can also take it swimming there's also some new fashion designs the misfit Rae does the same tracking stuff as misfits other models like the shine but the Ray looks like a simple jewelry rod that you pop on a necklace or your wrist and that's neat if you already wear a normal watch you don't want to wear to circle watch things on one wrist it starts at a hundred dollars and if you rather not wear anything on your wrist we're seeing more tech for the Feet Under Armour has these smart sneakers that do all the tracking for you during a run and they look at your stride these costs 150 dollars they come out next or you can put all the smarts in your pants with the LUMO run shorts it's a sensor that tucks into the shorts to measure not just how fast and far you go but also how you're moving with analysis on things like pelvic rotation that's also a hundred and fifty dollars coming out in the spring and we're still running right along covering every corner of CES 2016 so keep checking in with us on cnet com / CES coming to you from the cnet stage at the Las Vegas Convention Center I'm Bridget Carey