The Verge - Anyone who bought one of Jawbone's much-hyped Up fitness bands last year found themselves an unwitting participant in a beta test. The brand-new platform promised to get you up and exercising, help you sleep and eat better, and make you more stylish to boot — and we liked it. But there were some missing features, and some overly simple software for the device.
GamerFitnation’s Arif S. Kinchen chats with Under Armour’s Director of Performance, Paul Winsper, on how the company is taking their expertise in delivering fitness apparel to full involvement in fitness lifestyle.
AmongTech: When you set your Jawbone UP or Fitbit to its sleep mode, both devices will use their accelerometers to track your movements, including the speed and direction you’re moving. This is the main way they track your activity during the day and also how they tell when you’re sleeping. But how does it know you are sleeping? What does it measure?
These Fitness Trackers cannot provide a deep analysis of our sleeping patterns since they relies only on movement alone, agreed that they cannot be termed as accurate just yet. however they give their users a general idea about their sleeping patterns.
Techradar: Like love, sensors are all around us. The astronomic growth in smartphone uptake means that most of the people you know now carry around a device that is constantly monitoring movement, light, sound and location. To date, the data captured by these s
