Fitbit Blaze
Fitbit’s newest smartwatch looks like an Apple Watch clone, with its color touchscreen display and modular design (you snap it in and out of different bands). It even works like an Apple Watch, letting you take calls from a synced phone, read texts and calendar notifications, and control music tracks. But it does a few things better than Apple’s wearable, at a little more than half the price. The Blaze comes with on-screen workout routines — sequences of specific, timed exercises, with explanatory animated images. It also checks your heart rate obsessively, measuring it once per second during workouts, and one every five seconds at other times. That includes the entire duration of your sleep, which creates an accurate picture of your resting heart rate, a revealing gauge of your overall fitness level. It’s a smart feature that should drain the watch’s battery in, well, a heartbeat. And yet, the Blaze apparently lasts five days on a single charge. [Pre-order for $200; fitbit.com]
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