Posts Tagged Activity trackers

Wake Mode Convinced My Child to Go to Bed

iOS/Android: If you didn’t sleep well last night, you’ll be tired today. Duh, right? Wake Mode shows your tiredness as a battery level for your body. For you and me, that’s a cute gimmick. For my seven-year-old, it was a compelling argument for actually going to sleep.

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Wake Mode Convinced My Child to Go to Bed

iOS/Android: If you didn’t sleep well last night, you’ll be tired today. Duh, right? Wake Mode shows your tiredness as a battery level for your body. For you and me, that’s a cute gimmick. For my seven-year-old, it was a compelling argument for actually going to sleep.

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RecycleHealth Helps You Donate Your Old Fitness Tracker

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Fitness trackers can help you reach your goals, if you have a plan to stay motivated
…and if you can afford one in the first place. RecycleHealth, a program based at Tufts University, is collecting donated trackers to help with the second half of that equation.

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Is Your Sleep Tracker Keeping You Up at Night?

Sleep is as important to health as diet and exercise and, thanks to new technology, tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?

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Is Your Sleep Tracker Keeping You Up at Night?

Sleep is as important to health as diet and exercise and, thanks to new technology, tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?

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​The Best Fitness Tracker for Every Need

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Like many of you, I work in front of a computer. They’re powerful devices, but they also suck your will to live and trick you into never, ever getting up and going outside. Reasons like that are why fitness trackers were invented.

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​The Best Fitness Tracker for Every Need

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Like many of you, I work in front of a computer. They’re powerful devices, but they also suck your will to live and trick you into never, ever getting up and going outside. Reasons like that are why fitness trackers were invented.

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Basis Peak Review: The Best Activity Tracker Yet

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The original Basis B1 Band was damn near the greatest activity tracker in the land , but it wasn’t. It had all the sensors (and then some) it took to get there, but its performance was inconsistent, and perhaps more importantly, it was bulky and ugly. Well, the Basis Peak is here now to right those wrongs, and guess what? It mostly does.

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Basis Peak Review: The Best Activity Tracker Yet

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The original Basis B1 Band was damn near the greatest activity tracker in the land , but it wasn’t. It had all the sensors (and then some) it took to get there, but its performance was inconsistent, and perhaps more importantly, it was bulky and ugly. Well, the Basis Peak is here now to right those wrongs, and guess what? It mostly does.

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The Data You Can (and Can’t) Trust From Your Fitness Tracker

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Everyone is on the fitness tracking bandwagon. The Apple Watch will track your heartbeat, steps, and activity. The Fitbit and Fuelband have been doing similar things for years. But they aren’t perfect. At best, the data is good encouragement, but at worst, it’s unreliable and misleading. Here’s why all that data doesn’t equal better health, and what you actually can use.

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