Fitness Gadget Tracks Every Calorie
After falling in love with the Nintendo Wii’s physically demanding sports games, serial entrepreneur James Park, 32, started to ponder other ways to combine video games and fitness. The result: a $99 lipstick-size gadget that clips on to your clothes and uses a motion sensor to track everything from steps taken to sleep patterns and calories burned.
The Fitbit Tracker then uploads the information to a wireless base station, which relays it to a Web site for analysis.
Park reckons the Fitbit motivates people to get in shape by letting them track daily exercise – a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that using a pedometer increased exercise rates by 27% – and compare themselves with other users online.
Photo by FitBit.
Jaclyn on January 9th, 2009 12:09 pm
That is a very cool and interesting idea! I bet a lot of people will snatch those up especially being the new year and all those people who made loosing weight a new years resolution or just simply exercising in general more as their new year’s resolution.
Click and Inc on January 9th, 2009 12:28 pm
Very interesting. Everyone is always trying to lose weight, so there is a real market in weight lose products. Thanks for sharing.
Jude on January 9th, 2009 1:44 pm
A perfect way for those who are already too obsessed with fitness and wellness to become even more obsessed.
Daniel N. Lang on January 10th, 2009 8:13 am
Wow, a wonderful idea. I wonder how exactly they calculate the burnt calories and how precise the results are. I guess that gizmo together with a gps device that’s uplaoding all the data to a similar online interface would make for a nice combination and Orwellian 1984 Big Brother ideas!
Thanks for sharing!
home based business on January 10th, 2009 1:57 pm
This seems lile a cool idea. Dieting can take a ton of time and thought most programs say they are simple but I watch people constantly trying to figure out if they can take another bite of their dinner or not.
cassy on January 15th, 2009 9:55 am
i think i need this new gadget to monitor my calorie and i hope this is not to expensive coz i really want to have this for health reason. interesting!
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