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Fitness Technology - TON S02E08. Health and Fitness Technology — Cincinnati State. Home - Fitness Technology is at a 'Tipping Point' Ed Trainor emerges from New York Sports Club in Manhattan after a rigorous morning workout. He peers down at his heart rate monitor to check how many calories he’s burned so far: a little over 1,000. He’s nearly halfway to his daily goal and he’s determined to reach it. His methods? Well, they’re a bit unorthodox. “I commute through Penn Station each day,” Trainor says. "Here I am, changing my behavior because I’m wearing this device," he says. The root of his obsession is the perfect marriage he’s found between human behavior, fitness and technology. The goal of the group is to create a platform that allows for innovation, or, as Jon Zerden likes to say, to create the "plumbing" behind fitness equipment.
In the software world there is a term for what the FITC aims to accomplish; it's called an "Applications Protocol Interface" (API). The group has launched headfirst into the quixotic search for principal technology standards in the fitness industry. Best Fitness Tech: 10 Gadgets To Help You Get Fit In 2010 (PHOTOS) Fitness Tech. Selling The Stories Of Our Lives: Technology And Privacy. LET TECHNOLOGY HELP YOU KEEP YOUR FITNESS RESOLUTIONS IN THE NEW YEAR. Health and Fitness Tech On Display at CEA's Industry Forum. A Digital Revolution in Health and Fitness Is Coming: How to Ride the Wave. SMC-DC September Event: Really Cool (Social Media) Case Studies. Social media case studies, results and videos of cybergoth dance parties.
We’re always looking for more of these things (or at least two of them) to help prove the value of social media to coworkers, bosses and clients. Luckily you’ll get two out of three at our next event on Wednesday, September 21st. We’ve got a great panel lined up to examine some of the District’s ”Really Cool Case Studies.” The social media brains behind NASA, Screen on the Green, and Goodwill DC will share their thoughts on topics such as: Campaign strategyDo’s and don’tsLearning lessonsMetrics to measureBest practicesWhatever you guys ask!
Check out the info below for more details and head over to the event registration page to claim your spot. Title: Really Cool (Social Media) Case Studies Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Location: The Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009 Panelists: Moderator: Joe Gizzi, Marketing Strategist, New Media Strategies Payment: Building The Ultimate Startup Dashboard For Your Team | Social Matchbox. ShareThis Photo Submitted by Patrick Jenkins Talk to most startup founders and you can easily begin to think they are a bit crazy or (more likely) OCD. Talk to enough successful startup founders and you can quickly spot a few important traits that they all have. There is usually a big difference. One attribute that typically helps me to differentiate between the ones who are going places and the ones who are just thinking big is the way they plan to measure the results of their efforts.
Early on this typically involves figuring out how long it will take to do one thing or another, often this revolves around how long it will take programmers to get things built and how much it will cost. Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal and Slide, plus four other startups before those, is a good example of the successful startup founder and how they approach this challenge. One of the people I reached out to was *Clearspring’s Will Meyer. Photo by Will Meyer Related posts:
Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think. Dave Rosenberg is the CEO of Nodeable, which offers a social platform for systems data. One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Throw in a few YouTube videos and a Twitter account, and you’re golden — or so we are led to believe. While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people.
And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5 million in venture financing. This is not to suggest that you can’t succeed on a budget with a skeleton team. Getting funded is hardly the end-all. Intranet Features - Office Ability. Online Collaboration, File sharing, and Project Management that is user friendly. Intranet Software Tour - Intranet Examples - Intranet Design | Intranet Connections. New 'Bite Counter' a pedometer for eating | Health Tech. A psychology professor and an electrical and computer engineering professor at Clemson University in South Carolina have teamed up to develop a watch-like device that tracks wrist-roll motion to count how many bites the wearer takes. In the lab, they report, their Bite Counter has been more than 90 percent accurate in tallying bites regardless of the food, utensil, container, or user. They say the device, which can be turned on and off at will, is something of a pedometer for eating.
It's certainly not tracking types of food. But even if it's intended to monitor mere quantity of consumption, it can only be so accurate. For instance, the number of bites it takes my husband to get to the bottom of a pint of ice cream is far smaller than the number of bites it takes me; I savor my desserts in particular with tiny licks and nibbles. And what about those eaters (certainly not me!) Who lick the bowl, wrists not rolling, when alone? Social network focuses on shared cancer stories | Health Tech. If your life or that of a loved one has been touched by cancer, here's a new social network where you can share your experiences and offer mutual support. I Had Cancer recently launched to connect current and former cancer patients, as well as their supporters. Users can build profiles, create circles of friends, contribute to discussions, and send cancer itself a message via the "Dear Cancer" tab.
If they want to find someone who has gone through similar circumstances, they can also find users by location, gender, age, type of cancer, and treatment. Founder Mailet Lopez of New York's Squeaky Wheel Media was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 33, and she longed to meet someone her age with a similar background to fight her feeling of isolation. "Four in 10 Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes," Lopez said in a release. See a promo video for the site here. NewYu fitness monitor tracks wide range of activities | Health Tech.
Wearable, connected fitness monitors are a dime a dozen these days. But developers of NewYu, a monitor that will be available in September, claim they've got an edge on their competition. The device, which is meant to clip to clothing on the torso or to a pocket, is purported to provide a more accurate view of calories burned by tracking, and differentiating between, all movements throughout the day. In other words, NewYu knows if you've been running or walking, cooking or cleaning, shopping, or (presumably) mating...You get the idea.
Actually, Van Krueger, CEO of parent company Wellcore, tells me they decided to steer clear of the "mating" category, but that it will register as low-, medium-, or high-impact aerobics, depending of course on the intensity of the, shall we say, heat of the moment. Krueger says the fitness monitor is able to differentiate among activities by using advanced pattern recognition technology. NewYu, which will cost $99.99, weighs in under an ounce.
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