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Jawbone To Acquire BodyMedia

By TechTaffy Desk

BodyMedia

Jawbone is acquiring wearable computing company BodyMedia. BodyMedia employees will join Jawbone’s existing team. The size of the deal was not shared.

Hosain Rahman (CEO and founder, Jawbone):  There’s an enormous appetite for personal data and self-discovery among consumers that will only continue to grow.

BodyMedia is registered with the FDA as a Class II medical device.  The company has over 14 years of medical and consumer expertise in the category and 87 patents issued, and has amassed a living database of raw and real-world human sensor data, with over 500 trillion sensor points collected and analyzed, according to the official statement announcing the acquisition from Jawbone.

What does this mean for you as a BodyMedia user?  At this point, nothing changes, says BodyMedia.

[Image courtesy: BodyMedia]

 

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