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6 gadgets qui rendent le sport ludique
Le marché de la santé connectée , un marché juteux mais qui vous veux du bien. Cette tendance de fond arrive à point nommé alors qu'un nombre croissant d'individus souhaite adopter un mode de vie plus sain. Aux Etats-Unis, ce secteur en pleine expansion est évalué à 4 milliards d'euros . Il serait aussi important en Europe.
If you're thinking about heading outside or to the gym to get some exercise now that the weather is turning warm, you may benefit from an appliance you can wear on your wrist or in your pocket that keeps an eye on your activity level and gives you feedback on how well you're doing, whether you're hitting your activity goals, or where you can improve. There are tons of these gadgets coming onto the market, and that all make big promises, but which ones are the best to help you get in shape? Here's a look at five of the best, based on your nominations.
Five Best Fitness Tracking Appliances
In five years the number of wearable wireless health and fitness devices will hit 169.5 million, according to a report from ABI Research. That’s up from almost 21 million such devices last year. By 2017 the number of sports and fitness focused wearable wireless devices will still outnumber more health-focused ones, but not by much. ABI expects about 90 million wearable fitness devices to be in the market five years from now, which leaves about 80 million health-focused ones. The research firm partially attributes the predicted rise in the number of wearable fitness devices to the increasing number of mobile handset vendors, consumer electronics companies, and online service providers who have joined the market in recent months.
By 2017: 170M wearable wireless health and fitness devices
All your data are belong to us, again
Jeudi et vendredi, j'étais présent au Forum Netexplo 2012, comme chaque année. Et jeudi soir, il s'est passé quelque chose qui m'a très étonné. Pour clore la journée, Eric Carreel, président de Withings , présentait ses produits et son travail.
Big Data + Mobile + Sensors + Visualization + Gamification = Quantified Self
If you’ve yet to dive into material and begin to understand the impact of what is called the quantified self, we suggest you do. This movement is about to get huge as the sheer volume of those classifying themselves as self-quantifiers is doubling annually. As barriers to quantified self fall – via ever smaller sensors, ever smarter data and ever more passive ways to collect and analyze the data – the continuation of individuals into the greater movement accelerates.
The " quantified self ": It's a lifestyle philosophy that says tracking one's own personal data -- calories burned, hours slept, miles run -- is the path to self-realization. All this data-tracking requires gadgets, and many innovative specimens were on display at CES 2012 last month. When it comes to your health, correcting bad behavior after periodic visits to the doctor is a step in the right direction.
Your Body Is an API: 9 Gadgets for Tracking Health and Fitness | Gadget Lab
vous Patrick Poiraud from Toulouse ? Comatek : avec U-STON peut-être qu'il n'y aurait pas eu de suicides chez qui vous savez ?
Comatek est une startup créée en 2010 dans le but de développer des applications de management collaboratif. Première application : U-STON. Qui permet, figurez-vous, de faire la collecte de ressentis humains. .Vous avez pris du bide pendant les fêtes, et vous vous promettez d’aller plus souvent à votre salle de sport. Mais vos belles résolutions ont tôt fait de s’évaporer. Et si vous perdiez 5 dollars chaque fois que vous séchez la gym ? Est-ce que vous seriez plus motivé ? Deux diplômés de Harvard ont lancé un site appelé Gym-Pact.com , fondé sur ce concept.
INSOLITE • Vous séchez la gym ? Votre iPhone vous retient 5 dollars
Gym-Pact Fines You for Not Exercising
With the start of a new year, many people resolve to shed their holiday paunch by hitting the gym more frequently. It’s easy to stay motivated for a few weeks, but then other things seem to take precedence — late nights at work, happy hour or the couch. So, what if it cost you $5 every time you missed the gym?
Seth's Blog » quantified self movement
What surprised me most about my self-experimental discoveries was that they were outside my area of expertise (animal learning). I discovered how to sleep better but I’m not a sleep researcher. I discovered how to improve my mood but I’m not a mood researcher. I discovered that flaxseed oil improved brain function but I’m not a nutrition researcher.
Nike+ FuelBand : le bracelet pour calculer son activité physique
Nike vient de présenter son nouveau bracelet nommé Nike+ FuelBand . Il s’agit d’un bracelet équipé d’un écran à LED grâce auquel l’utilisateur peut garder une trace de son activité physique journalière, et se fixer des objectifs à remplir. Le principe est donc simple : le bracelet est appairé en Bluetooth à un iPhone ou un iPod disposant de l’application Nike+ , dans laquelle l’utilisateur entre ses objectifs, qui se présente sous la forme d’un certain nombre de points. Le bracelet est alors capable de calculer les mouvements de l’utilisateur, le nombre de pas ou encore les calories brulées, et peut ensuite les convertir en points pour prévenir que l’objectif quotidien a été atteint.By DAVID B. AGUS Take a moment to imagine what it would be like to live robustly to the ripe old age of 100 or more. You wouldn't die of any particular illness, and you wouldn't gradually waste away under the spell of some awful, enfeebling disease that began years or decades earlier.
The Future of Personalized Medicine
The Quantified Self is, yes, a Movement. QS Meetups pop up everywhere in the world. There are already 45 Meetups worldwide, (22 in the US, 12 in Europe, then Tokyo, Beirut, Sydney, Rio,…). Yet QS is still very hard to explain to non-initiates. Problem is, “Quantified Self” is a vastly misleading label; by no way is it a description of the movement’s true meaning. I will hereunder expose 4 hidden aspects of what the Movement is really about.