Fitbit Wireless Activity Tracker - Overview Your Fitbit One is always tracking, even when the display is asleep. Press the button to view your stats. Your flower will grow and shrink, depending on how active you've been recently. Calories burned includes resting calories and calories from activity. The activity stats shown on your tracker reset at midnight. To track your sleep, press and hold the button on your tracker until you see the stopwatch. Press and hold the same button when you are awake to end your sleep recording. Use Silent Alarms to wake from sleep without disturbing your partner. Your One gently vibrates on your wrist to silently wake you. Your Fitbit One contains a rechargeable battery. When plugged into the Charging Cable, it takes about 2 hours for your tracker to be fully charged. Your activity information is sent to your computer when your tracker is within 20 feet of the plugged-in Wireless Sync Dongle Syncing happens automatically. For a full list of supported devices, visit: steps
Press Release: Revolutionary new paper computer shows flexible future for smartphones and tablets | Human Media Lab :: Queen's University Queen’s University’s Roel Vertegaal says thinfilm phone will make current smartphone obsolete in 5 to 10 years. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, May 8 2011 – The world’s first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing. “This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” says creator Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen’s University Human Media Lab,. The smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone – it does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls. Being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers. “The paperless office is here. The invention heralds a new generation of computers that are super lightweight, thin-film and flexible. Dr.
Withings - Smart products and apps - Homepage Hands on with the BodyMedia Core Armband health tracker If there’s one trend we’ve seen over the past few months when it comes to lifestyle tech products, it’s hands-down fitness and health tracking gadgets. Everyone is trying to come up with the best, most accurate, and yet easy-to-wear health and fitness gadget, and there is more than a handful of contenders. While I haven’t had a chance to check out all the gadgets yet, I did manage to get ahold of the BodyMedia Core Armband ($179) powered by IBM technology for some hands-on testing. First let’s look at the basics on exactly what the BodyMedia Core Armband is and how it works. The combination of sensors tracks calories burned and will even put your physical activity into different categories based on energy exerted. There were a lot of things that I liked about the armband in testing. The set-up and use of the device was also very simple. I was not very impressed by the nutrition-tracking piece of the system either.
Home Massive Health We are proud to say that we have been acquired by a company that not only leads in consumer products, but is the leading company in consumer health. They do hardware. They breathe design. They are FastCompany's second most innovative consumer tech company (beaten only by Apple—and we're coming for you, Apple). They are: Massive Health was a company born from a passion to make products that make being healthy as easy as using an iPhone. We sit at a watershed moment in history as mobile, data, social, and medicine collide. Excited? join our team Putting Nike's FuelBand (and me) through the paces | Crave I have to hand it to Nike for its unique take on the growing fad of fitness-tracking devices. The FuelBand is Nike's stab at this segment, which others including the Jawbone Up and Motorola Mobility's MotoActv have already tread. But with production of the Up halted for a battery issue , and Motorola's product still a little-known niche device, there's a big opening in the market. Unlike some of the other devices, the primary crux of the FuelBand is its Nike Fuel reading, a metric that Nike put together on its own that matches a person's movement through the wristband's accelerometer against data collected on how rapidly oxygen is consumed. As with other fitness monitors that rely on an accelerometer, the readings vary greatly depending on how much you move your arm. Cycling and certain kinds of weight lifting, for instance, wouldn't register much as simply sitting on your couch and waving your hands. My initial thought when I put on the device was how rigid it was.