Before it acquired Fitbit, Google was trying to make its own fitness tracker, and a new patent shows what it had in mind.
Before Google tried to buy Fitbit, the tech giant was working on its own line of fitness-tracking smart bands, and while these products will likely never come to light now (as they’d pose competition to Fitbit), we’ve seen a glimpse at what could have been. As spotted by PatentlyApple, in early December Google was granted several patents it filed in April 2019, months before it moved to acquire Fitbit. The patents are for a fitness tracking band, and images are included. The most notable thing about the depicted fitness tracker is that it has no screen, similar to the Fitbit Flex or Amazon Halo, the latter of which was revealed after this patent was filed.
