Screenless gym tracker
A new screenless wearable from ex‑Tesla engineers promises automatic logging of strength workouts — reps, sets and rest periods — aiming to 'fill out your gym card' without manual entry (device report: ).
Fort lists Miranda Nover, Paul Schneider and Zac Valles as its founders and appears on Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 company roster. ( ycombinator.com ) Early funding and support named in coverage includes Y Combinator, venture backers Afore, Weekend Fund and Theory Forge, plus angel investors described as coming from OpenAI and Tesla. ( the5krunner.com ) The device’s hardware pairs an IMU (accelerometer + gyroscope) with a PPG heart‑rate sensor, and Fort says its magnetic charging case also houses motion sensors and a magnet to attach to gym equipment. ( fort.cx ) Company specs list a seven‑day battery life under normal use and claim recognition of more than 50 distinct exercises for analysis. ( fort.cx ) Fort’s companion app surfaces a numeric “Session Score,” per‑muscle stimulus breakdown labeled maintenance/growth/overload, and metrics such as rep velocity, time under tension and proximity‑to‑failure. ( fort.cx ) Pre‑order pricing is shown at $289 with one year of app access included (app subscription listed as $79.99/yr), Fort says Batch 1 ships Q3 2026, and some reports cite a potential $349 retail price. ( fort.cx )( the5krunner.com ) Fort’s product roadmap and PR note plans to correlate strength metrics with sleep, stress and cardio data and to explore integrations with bloodwork biomarkers as part of longer‑term tracking ambitions. ( fitt.co )
