Wearables: Leapfrog LeapBand, Ibitz activity tracker, Kidfit activity and sleep tracker Who’s trying them: The Lee kids and some of their friends Yes, there are kid wearables as well! Each of the three we’ve tried are about encouraging kids to be active, and incentivizing healthy activity through rewards. The Ibitz [...]
Wearable: Beddit Sleep Monitor Who’s Tried It: Kimberly, Sara, Alex What It Does: Sleep monitoring, including sleep quality, total sleep time, time to fall asleep, sleep efficiency, heart rate, respiration, sleep cycles, snoring, bed exits, restless sleep indicator Most of the wearables we’ve been trying this summer do some kind [...]
Before electronic activity trackers and step counters arrived on the scene, there were sportwatches. Your old Timex Ironman--an indestructible amalgamation of ancient alien technology--was basically a stopwatch with a wristband. A sportwatch. It told you how much time had elapsed since you started it, how much time remained before the [...]
Tracking steps is a relatively easy thing to do for a wearable: at its core, a step-counter counts bounces. But just like in Inception, we can go deeper into the world of movement tracking. The wearables on your arm, clipped to your belt, and in your pocket all require a little [...]
In my introductory post for We Wear It, I said that part of our goal for the 99 days is to help people learn about the wide variety of wearable devices that are available, their various capabilities, how they work for different lifestyles, and how all of this health and [...]