Fitbit's new Alta HR is the slimmest tracker with heart rate tracking

Fitbit just announced the Fitbit Alta HR as well as new features on the Fitbit app, Sleep Stages and Sleep Insights, giving you actionable insights and guidance to make more informed decisions about your health and stay motivated in style.

“Alta HR and these powerful new sleep features demonstrate our continued focus on evolving our innovative technology to deliver deeper, more actionable insights to help our users improve their health,” said James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit. “The miniaturization of our PurePulse heart rate technology opens up exciting opportunities for future generations of devices and new form factors. Our advances in sleep will provide millions of users around the globe accessibility to invaluable insights that previously could be obtained only through expensive lab tests.”

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Google Maps promotes Kong’s Skull Island

Google has done many movie tie-ins in the past. This time around, Google Maps works with Legendary for the upcoming release of Kong: Skull Island. You can’t exactly see the island on the map as it’s just a blip on the south of the equator in the Pacific Ocean. But it does get an info page of sorts that links it as an Archeological Site and has a link to the official tie-in website that lets you explore the island and the creatures on it. You can also leave a review, if you want. Kong: Skull Island comes out in Canada on March 10.

Source: The Verge 

Proxy49 Inceptor lets you play laser tag with your smartphone

A new accessory from Proxy49 brings the fun of laser tag to the streets. The Inceptor works with the game Father.io to turn any smartphone into a mobile laser tag machine—without the need of a plastic toy gun attachment. The accessory was funded on Indiegogo last year and has now finally started production.

It comes with an infrared receiver and transmitter, battery, and a number of sensors that promise low latency while you run around and dodge tags. An LED shows which team you’re playing for. The app on your phone makes use of the camera to help you see what’s going on around you and like Pokémon GO, it overlays graphics but it shows things like target crosshairs and how many points you’ve scored. The Inceptor is available for pre-order on Indiegogo for US$50 for a two-pack. And later on you can get one for $30 each from Brookstone. 

Game saves on Nintendo Switch can’t be transferred between systems

One of the downsides of the new Nintendo Switch console is that your game saves stay on one system. In the era of cloud saving, this seems to be a major disadvantage. Nintendo posted on its FAQ saying that saves will be stored exclusively to the console’s built-in 32GB storage, which is unlike the Switch’s predecessor that somehow let users transfer and backup save data. So, if you’re determined to finish Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Switch, you can only do so in the system you started playing the game.

But things could change in the future, Nintendo released a statement to Kotaku saying, “At this time, it is not possible to transfer save data from one Nintendo Switch system to another.” We’ll be holding out for that “at this time” statement and hope Nintendo changes its mind in the future.