Moov HR review: Everyone should wear heart rate monitors on their heads

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We're all used to heart rate monitoring chest straps and wristbands, but Moov has just introduced a fitness tracker that goes inside a headband. The new $99 Moov HR monitor is a small module that captures your pulse via the blood that rushes through your head. While most companies favor the wrist or the chest for pulse-tracking sensors, the temple is a good pressure point that is under-utilized in the fitness tracker world.

Paired with the Moov mobile app and its motion sensor, the Moov Now, the company's new heart rate monitor completes the trifecta of fitness coaching that it has been developing for the past few years. However, the challenge for Moov HR is that it needs to be good enough and easy enough to use that people will get over the weirdness of working out with a sensor resting on their foreheads.

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