Striiv launches a tiny smart pedometer to track your physical activity

Coupled with an iPhone app, the Striiv Play Smart Pedometer lets you count your steps in a day and gamifies your fitness goals.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Kixeye CEO calls out Zynga, new Xbox 360 dashboard revealed

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Striiv says its step-counting gadget inspires people to walk more

Striiv has taken the humble step counter and turned it into a “personal trainer in your pocket.” The Redwood City, Calif.-based company says that in the two months since its release, the company’s step-counting gadget has inspired people to walk …

FitBit raises $12M for personal fitness-tracking devices

FitBit, a maker of personal fitness-tracking gadgets, has raised $12 million in a third round of venture funding. The money comes investors that include Foundry Group and True Ventures, who are betting that fitness tracking will soon become a national …

Quantifying our lives will be a top trend of 2012

The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2012, as we noted in our recent summary of the Consumer Electronics Show.

As everything analog shifts to digital, we can collect a huge amount of data about ourselves. As …

Striiv tells me I walked 8,686 steps at CES today (video)

Striiv is a little keychain gadget with a display that counts how many steps you take in a day. I used it at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today and it told me I walked 8,686 steps, or …

Eight great gadgets from startups that build hardware

When you think Silicon Valley startups, you think applications, locational data, cloud storage and social gaming. We dug around to find some companies that still innovating on the physical plane and making actual, tangible products.

Dropcam

This is a gizmo …

Inside Will Wright’s next big game: HiveMind (exclusive)

Will Wright has created some of the biggest video games of all time, from SimCity to The Sims — games that have sold well above 100 million units and generated billions in revenues. Now he’s moving on to his next …

Striiv to start selling its fun fitness gadget on TV shopping network

Striiv, the startup that is trying to make fitness fun,will begin selling its fitness gadget through TV shopping network HSN starting Oct. 22.

The deal is a coup for the Redwood City, Calif.-based startup. Striiv makes a gadget that hangs …

Striiv raises $6M to make fitness fun

Striiv, a startup focused on making walking more fun, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding.

The Redwood City, Calif.-based company makes a gadget that hangs on your keychain and keeps track of every step you take. …

Striiv to launch portable device make fitness more fun

Games like Wii Fit have made it more fun to stay fit in your living room. But Silicon Valley start-up Striiv wants to motivate you to stay fit outside the living room, when you’re walking around at work or running …