If we can solve the privacy issues, placing trackers on people and the things we make can teach us a great deal about ourselves and the world around us.
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Wearable technology could help us manage our own health but separate us from our doctors as they drown in data.
Tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?
Fitness devices like Fitbit set an automatic goal of 10,000 steps a day. But this isn’t the magic threshold some make it out to be.
As wearables record more personal and physical activity data about us, we risk giving away more than we’d imagine.
We can already track plenty of body data, but to really make a difference, wearables need to consistently collect clinically valuable information that can be used to improve health.
Beyond simply counting steps, fitness tracking technology creates personal black boxes that archive everything we do – even sleeping. So it’s not surprising to see that a Calgary law firm, representing…
Rumours are surfacing that Microsoft will launch its own smartwatch in the next few weeks. Given that Microsoft Windows Phone accounts for just 2.5% of the world smartphone market, the watch will work…
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