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Quantified Self

By Adam Rifkin

Good health requires good habits.

I'm not convinced quantified self is an improvement over just generally having good habits such as eating well and exercising.

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PIQ -measures all the stats of your ski runs, jumps, etc, also Golf and Tennis versions

The First Quantified Brain

This Doggie Wearable Claims to Detect Your Dog’s Emotions

Putting a Physics Lab in a Student’s Pocket

The Smart Rope Will Record and Track Your Workout Data To Help You Get Fitter

Anticipatory Healthcare: Predict and Prevent

Can big data help you get a good night’s sleep? - Fortune

The Evidence Points to a Better Way to Fight Insomnia

Tracking Your Own Health Data Too Closely Can Make You Sick : NPR

Thync is a brain-altering wearable that allows users to change their moods on demand, ending dependence on drugs.

This Company Will Let You Try Out A Box Of Fitness Trackers At Home, Warby Parker-Style

Track Minor Progress Like a Video Game for Better Motivation

The Scoreboards Where You Can’t See Your Score - NYTimes.com

Nobody Exercises When It's Cold - The Atlantic

Wearables Are Totally Failing the People Who Need Them Most

Apple Plans to Stop Selling Fitbit Devices in Stores

Do you really want health trackers?

Jawbone Maps Sleeping Habits

The $300 Headband That Gamifies Your Moment Of Zen

Stephen Hawking endorses Intel's connected wheelchair

How Apple Is Invading Our Bodies | TIME

When Feces Is the Best Medicine, by Amanda Schaffer in The Atlantic

How did the Napa earthquake affect sleep?

NFL starting to buy into quantified self

How Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly converted LeSean McCoy into a believer

This Guy Tracks Everything About Himself And Puts It Up Online For Everyone To See

What Are You Measuring In Your Life?

Calorie counting leads to bad science and worse gadgets

This Is How People Once Measured the Blueness of the Sky, by Megan Garber, The Atlantic

Nike Giving up on FuelBand

Meet the 'Most Connected Man' in the World

Quantify Everything: A Dream of a Feminist Data Future, by Amelia Abreu

Why I Dumped My FuelBand

Max Levchin wants to get you pregnant

The FitBit App Now Turns The iPhone 5s Into A FitBit

70% of people would be willing to have a smart toilet share their personal data - Quartz

'Cranky Pancreas' Tweets: How the Diabetes Community Uses Social Media - Emma Green - The Atlantic

Level Is a Money Meter App, Launching With $5M From Kleiner Perkins - Liz Gannes

I constantly monitor my blood sugar level - I've collected more than 565K rows of data about my blood sugar, I am big data

Who Knew That Blood, Sweat and Tears Could Start a Health Care Revolution?

How To Become A Better Person: 6 Things That Make It Easier

How I Experimented on Myself: Here are 4 Things That Helped Me Sleep - The Buffer Blog

Fitbit Flex vs Nike Fuelband vs Jawbone Up vs Basis - comparing fitness bracelets

I experimented on myself. Here are 4 things that did help me sleep.

Biomeme - DNA diagnostics on your smartphone

Tracking Pablo Sandoval's weight vs his Wins Above Replacement

The Eat Watch

Orgasm Diet == Happiness

Apps and Medicine are a pound of cure; Policy and Lifestyle are an ounce of prevention.

DailyBurn CEO Skeptical About Fitness-Tracking Devices

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