Jawbone’s Next Frontier: Improving Your Health
Adam Ostrow,
Mashable,
Jul 15, 2011
Our electronic devices are getting closer and closer to our persons. Walking in an invisible soup of data, our devices will keep constant track of where we are and how we're doing - not to spy on us, but to help us (at least, if we get the right sort of government). Take Jawbone's latest: a bracelet that monitors your medical status. "The UP bracelet will automatically track your sleep patterns, movements and nutrition and provide that data to an app that in turn monitors and makes recommendations for improving your health." The first version needs to be attached to a mobile phone for data upload, but later versions will manage on their own (maybe, say, just using ambient WiFi to upload the encrypted data). The focus of this article is on health, but what the UP bracelet produces is feedback, which we know plays a key role not only in health but even more so in education.
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