Basis: A Wellness Monitor and UI Design by Postmammal. With the advent of smartphones, personal gps and mass social-media integration, life-tracking habits and devices are becoming more and more common, if not the norm. Much like the Nike Fuelband or the Jawbone UP, the wrist-worn Basis is a device that tracks wellness through heart rate and activity level. Basis however seems as if it will be more of a lifestyle tool and less of a gadget than others in the pack. Part of what creates that perception for me is this beautiful UI concept.
These early design direction concepts for the website and interface create a place and experience that a user would want to interact with on a daily basis, to see both short and long-term results. Other devices seem to play toward instant gratification with social media pushing, grand totals and game-driven interaction. These concept products and interfaces were designed by San Francisco-based Postmammal, the collective works of Robert Murdock. Some other hand-picked posts you might enjoy on our Design Blog: Salud / familia / mejoramiento personal. La compañía de electrónicos LG anunció oficialmente en CES su entrada a la categoría de dispositivos electrónicos que monitorea tu cuerpo con la LG Lifeband Touch. Este producto de LG entra a un mercado que ha comenzado a saturarse con los dispositivos de Nike, Fitbit, y otros. La Lifeband Touch de LG es compatible con monitores del pulso cardiaco y “smartphones” y tiene un diseño flexible y asimétrico con un panel OLED táctil que muestra la hora, biometría, llamadas recibidas y controles de música; estos últimos cuando están “pareados” con un “smartphone” a través de Bluetooth.
“Queríamos introducir productos portátiles que monitoreen la salud corporal que cumplan las expectativas de los consumidores con conocimientos de tecnología de hoy en día y que trajeran algo nuevo a la mesa, que en nuestro caso significa un diseño excepcional, comodidad y funcionalidad,” dijo Jim Clayton, vicepresidente ejecutivo de la nueva División de Negocios de Entretenimiento para el Hogar de LG. Loose It! Life-tracking tools for a better, healthier you: Fuelband, Fitbit, UP compared.
If you want to track, monitor, and record all the details of your run, bike ride, swim, or other intense physical event, then there excellent devices on the market for your specific needs. For the other 23 hours of the day when you are walking to the office, sitting at your desk, going for a simple jog, walking the dog, and even sleeping then you may want to consider the Fitbit Ultra, Nike+ Fuelband, or Jawbone UP. I purchased and have been using all three for a period of time and this article brings all of my thoughts together in an attempt to help you make an informed choice.
You can check out the three devices and screenshots of the mobile apps in my image gallery. I previously wrote some first impressions and other posts on these three devices, but this one brings them all together and presents my longer term usage experiences. You can read these past posts too that will give you some background on my purchases: Motivation is key to success Form factor and designWhat is tracked? Woot! Fitbit[s] & Pieces | Technically Running.
Lose It! - Succeed at weight loss with Lose It! All-Day Tracking Comes to Nike+ | Technically Running. 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. Striiv | Striiv Smart Pedometer. 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. Now I can give you the rundown on what I liked, what I didn’t like, and whether it’s worth buying. 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. 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. Steps Stairs Climbed Distance Calories Burned 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. Steps distance calories burned clock. Basis — health and heart rate monitor for wellness and fitness.