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Health and fitness gadgets easily represent one of the fast-growing categories in consumer electronics.

For example, there’s the Renew SleepClock: from the moment you wake up, it can be there to help. Stick your iPhone or iPad in there and it tracks your sleep patterns via an app without having to hook anything up to your body. It then uses what it learns to start your day off properly.

“It has a sensor in it that senses my respiration and micro-movements, and because it does that, it knows when I'm in deep sleep, light sleep, tossing and turning, and based on that, it can wake me at the right moment, so I wake up feeling refreshed instead of throwing me out of bed in a deep sleep with a buzzer,” says Victor Marks of Gear4.

For the stress you encounter after your morning coffee, that's where devices like the emWave2 try to help. It takes your pulse, and based on how your heart is pumping, it’s part of a system that offers up tips on how to get a bit more Zen.

“When you're frustrated or angry, your heart rate looks like an earthquake tracing, and so what you want to do is move to a smooth balanced state called ‘coherence,’ and that's when your breathing, your heart and your brain are in sync,” says Catherine Calarco of HeartMath.

If part of your stress is worrying about an older relative, try the Sonamba. It's a picture frame that you can wirelessly send photos or texts to, but hidden behind that fun stuff, it’s able to learn about your elderly loved one's routines thanks to video and audio sensors. Then, when a routine is broken, you’re notified.

“It tracks their activity, and let's say mom wakes up everyday at 7 o'clock and makes herself a cup of coffee. It's 9 o'clock and you haven’t seen the activity. It's going to send text messages to family saying, 'something's amiss, go call her,'” says Ajit Pendse of Sonamba.

And finally, there’s the NordicTrack treadmill, which allows you to exercise at home or the gym while at the same time exercising just about anywhere in the world

“Because of our relationship with Google Maps, I can, on that touch screen on this treadmill, I can go anywhere in the world Google has gone. I can map a course and then go run that course. If there's any topographical change in that course, this treadmill's incline and decline will change to match the course,” says Jeffrey Hedin of NordicTrack.

For a more immersive view you can run through the streets through your big screen TV, as long as it's a smart TV, the Panasonic model that can access NordicTrack's iFit app.