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The Una Watch, previously offered for $350 during its Kickstarter campaign, is now priced at $199. It features a 1.2-inch MIP LCD display, up to 10 days of battery life, and an open-source design covering its SDK, housing, and circuit boards, allowing users to repair or modify it themselves.
Oura's upcoming IPO will offer 50 million shares priced between $40 and $44, but nearly two-thirds of those shares are being sold by existing shareholders rather than the company itself. Forerunner Ventures, an early backer since 2020, stands to collect roughly $1.2 billion by selling its entire stake, accounting for about 80% of shares sold by insiders. Oura itself expects to net around $532.6 million, most of which will go toward covering tax obligations tied to vesting employee shares.
Florida International University researchers tested the Apple Watch Series 8, Fitbit Sense 2, Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and Garmin Forerunner 955 against a Cosmed K5 metabolic device and ECG chest strap during controlled workouts with 58 participants. All four smartwatches overstated calorie burn, with margins of error ranging from 15% to 25%, meaning a reported 200-calorie burn could really be closer to 160-174 calories. Apple Watch was the most accurate, while Samsung and Garmin overestimated more, and Fitbit had enough tracking glitches that some of its data had to be excluded.
ZDNET tested two sub-$300 AMOLED sports watches, the Garmin Forerunner 170 and Coros Pace 4, over several weeks of running, biking, and hiking. Both offer similar 1.2-inch displays and weight, but the Coros Pace 4 lasts roughly 19 days per charge versus 10 for the Garmin, with a similar edge during GPS use. The Garmin counters with a traditional five-button interface that some athletes prefer for reliability in bad weather or heavy sweat.
Andy Dunn's startup Pie has launched a new feature called Community Homes, giving its roughly 300,000 users permanent group pages instead of just event listings. The homes include shared feeds, admin controls, shareable pages, and event-planning tools, letting anyone in the group post updates, not just organizers. Pie, backed by investors like Forerunner, Lightspeed, Accel and Ev Williams, plans to add group chats and casual hangout prompts next.