Thread: FitBit May Zap You

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There's a new warning for anyone who wears a fitness tracker after some dangerous side effects have been reported.

Instead of promoting good health, some have led to a fitness fail.

Chris Nelson is an active dad who liked counting his steps and tracking his heart rate with his fitness tracker, but says while putting his three-year-old daughter Emily to bed his Fitbit Charge 2 shocked him.

The jolt caused him to drop his baby.

"It was clearly an electric shock," he told CBS2.

Emily wasn't hurt, but Chris says it left a painful lump on his wrist and caused his hand to go temporarily numb.

"The best I can figure, I was just shocked by the connector that was on my wrist," the young dad said.

Mom Lauren Reiss swears two different Fitbit models shocked her.

"It shot up my arm, it was intense," she said. "As soon as I looked down at my arm I noticed immediately that it hurt."

She says one of the jolts left a lasting mark.

"You can see my burn," she said. "It matches perfectly."

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/05/...-fitness-fail/

Lawyer up.

I love my Blaze Fitbit!!!! ... received it as a gift from family a year ago. It works great! .... never any shocks. I wonder if that's a fake news item planted by a competitor .... I do not think the kind and type of electricity within digital electronic devices can cause an electrical shock.

Originally Posted by FireBrand

Lawyer up.

This is a con job, ….a scam

Originally Posted by Ari

I love my Blaze Fitbit!!!! … received it as a gift from family a year ago. It works great! …. never any shocks. I wonder if that's a fake news item planted by a competitor …. I do not think the kind and type of electricity within digital electronic devices can cause an electrical shock.

Apparently its not uncommon. This is from a pro-FitBit forum:

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Flex...ck/td-p/481364

Originally Posted by Ari

I love my Blaze Fitbit!!!! … received it as a gift from family a year ago. It works great! …. never any shocks. I wonder if that's a fake news item planted by a competitor …. I do not think the kind and type of electricity within digital electronic devices can cause an electrical shock.

If you read/listen carefully to the coverage they stay away from saying "fitbit", referring to the thingamabob as a "fitness device".