Gadgetory

how much would you pay for an activity tracker $150 $100 $50 I'm Scott Stein and the new misfit flash is a $50 activity tracker that's coming up this holiday it's available now and the price is the thing here because misfit originally had a tracker called the shine that came out last year that cost over $100 and it was cool it was a little aluminum disc that acted like a mini clock could pop in a wristband or a clip or even act as a necklace and could track your steps was waterproof had a long battery life and could track sleep automatically at least how restful you were that type of basic sleep tracking now the flash does all of those things too but it's made of plastic and at 50 dollars it's a lot more attractive than it was before but the ability to track steps is now in a lot of things you can track steps on a lot of phones you could track steps with smartwatches if you have a SmartWatch so maybe that part seems a little less exciting but the flash being waterproof and having a long battery life with a replaceable coin battery inside well that's pretty cool because you could swim with this and Misfits software does have some swim tracking software capabilities built into it in fact it can be used to do a variety of different activities but really it's an accelerometer based pedometer that's the main thing you want to use it for when you go to sleep it automatically detects when you're lying down and will check to see overnight how restful you were and activate once you've gotten up and walked now the flashes design has a cool red LED readout that not only shows your daily progress but also blinks its little lights in the in that twelve dot circle to show hours and minutes so it acts like a kind of too-cool-for-school digital watch and the improvement here is that it doesn't pop out of this band as easily as it did before it actually pops in from the bottom so you don't have to worry about losing it and it does come with a clip too in addition to this band the mist of flash will work with Android iOS and Windows Phone and it will sync via bluetooth once you open up the app and check it out the app is very nice and cleanly designed and even connects now with additional fitness tracking software like RunKeeper 50 bucks for basic activity tracking sounds pretty good to me maybe however you might be interested in waiting for a SmartWatch or something else that has heart rate tracking the thing that the misfit flash lacks I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the new misfit flash available now