Despite now being broken, I'm found my five months with the Jawbone Up bracelet an interesting period.
It's given me my first decent set of personal data, which is surely the point of wearable tech.
When it comes to five months of sleep data, it's not always so reliable as sometimes I forget to toggle into sleep mode, but at least I can see some broad data. September was a good month of sleep (holiday!). July and October weren't - too much travelling.
It is good to see that I've been getting more active.
Still, with my Up band now out of action, the sad thing is this data is now pretty much useless.
It's been said that the most important thing about wearable technology is that is has to be in a form that people will wear. Yet equally important is that you can get the data out of the system in a form that you can combine it with data from sensors from other companies (and even manually-inputed data). After all, over the years, we're going to be using equipment from various providers.
I think the latter will be a harder problem to solve than the former.
It's given me my first decent set of personal data, which is surely the point of wearable tech.
When it comes to five months of sleep data, it's not always so reliable as sometimes I forget to toggle into sleep mode, but at least I can see some broad data. September was a good month of sleep (holiday!). July and October weren't - too much travelling.
It is good to see that I've been getting more active.
Still, with my Up band now out of action, the sad thing is this data is now pretty much useless.
It's been said that the most important thing about wearable technology is that is has to be in a form that people will wear. Yet equally important is that you can get the data out of the system in a form that you can combine it with data from sensors from other companies (and even manually-inputed data). After all, over the years, we're going to be using equipment from various providers.
I think the latter will be a harder problem to solve than the former.
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