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Garmin has added an optical heartrate tracker to its SmartWatch this is the vivoactive HR it's got some other new features too let's take a look so if I spin this around the first thing you can see under these glowing green lights is the optical heart rate sensor so that's going to give you a better idea hopefully of exactly how hard you're working when you're exercising there are some other new features as well so for example this watch can now track how many floors you've climbed and it'll also keep track of intense periods of activity other than that you get pretty standard SmartWatch features so you get things like notifications calls calendar alerts coming in to the watch so you now have to keep checking your phone now one thing I want to point out is the screen garmin uses quite an interesting screen technology it's not quite as sort of bright and vivid as things you get on maybe for example a samsung Smart Watch but Garmin reckons that this will be easier to read in the daylight and better for battery life specifically you can expect around eight days of battery life with the vivoactive HR or 13 hours when it's got an active GPS signal going it also works with iOS and Android via an app it's going to be on sale in the next few months and expect to pay about 250 dollars alright that's all for now but be sure to check out cnet.com slash for much more