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...Last year, Jawbone, which already makes wearable bands, bought BodyMedia in the US, a sensor technology start-up....
...Over the past year, Jawbone acquired BodyMedia, a maker of sophisticated fitness tracking sensors, and Massive Health, which analyses the data generated by such devices....
...People caught on to that pretty quickly,” says Christine Robins, chief executive of Bodymedia, whose armband sensors measure sweat, skin temperature, heat dissipation and motion....
...Hardware was thin on the ground at Demo, but BodyMedia showed off a new health patch that it expects to launch later this year....
...The BodyMedia dashboard and food database offered the most comprehensive statistics and graphs of the three....
...It sounds as if it will challenge existing health monitors such as Fitbit and the Bodymedia Fit....
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