Fitness trackers often fail to work on people with dark skin

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Fitbit-like gadgets struggle to accurately track the heart rate of people with dark skin

Fitbits and other fitness trackers may not be giving accurate heart rate readings to people of colour because the technology used struggles to work with dark skin.

 

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My tan

Fitbit-lije gadget racist?!

Racist tech

Fitbit gadgets struggle to track the heart rate of anyone ,they are a POS.

Racist

Is it just the white ones

RitaPanahi TitaniaMcGrath I see this is something that Titania must address

Day raciss

'Fitbit-like gadgets' are racist obviously.

Now David Lammy will say it’s racists.

Smells like tech racism

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