You’ll put 75,000 miles on your feet by the time you hit 50, according to the American Podiatric Medical Association, yet foot health is often neglected. They take an even worse beating when we travel, when we tend to put on more miles than we normally would, cramp them in tight coach seats, or place more pressure on them from carrying luggage or shopping bags. Abused and left untreated, poor foot health could lead to complications down the road.
There are some easy, basic tips for staying healthy when on the road. They include not bringing brand-new shoes, packing light, and maintaining good blood circulation. But even if you don’t pay attention to what you’re slipping on, packing the following items will make all that extra walking around town or sitting in a coach seat for 13 hours not only a bit more bearable. Here are four footwear-tech products for keeping the dogs healthy.
The OnePlus Buds Clip are a new pair of open-ear earbuds built around a simple convenience. They join Sony’s LinkBuds Clip in the growing ear-cuff category, but either OnePlus bud can go on either ear.
Sensors recognize how the earbuds are being worn and route the audio channels accordingly. There’s no label to check before putting them on, and the feature also works when only one bud is used.
We buy fitness bands and activity trackers to keep tabs on our exercise, but it is easy to forget to start tracking or switch modes when moving between different activities. For Fitbit and Pixel Watch users, that could soon become a lot less annoying, as Google is rolling out a major upgrade to automatic activity tracking that can recognize more than 100 types of exercise, up from just 10 before.
Google first showed off the improved tracking earlier this month alongside the Fitbit Edge. It is now coming to Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 3, 4, and 5, and Google claims the added context behind the system makes workout detection nearly twice as accurate while cutting missed activities by more than half. Fitbit Edge will support it too.