Better (
a year) late than never, eh Fitbit? This time last year, there was quite a bit of buzz stirred up by a little gadget promising to monitor exercise intensity, distances traveled, sleep patterns, and calorie consumption. This
pedometer with a degree and a 3D motion sensor has been incubating a lot longer than initially projected, but the first few units have finally trickled out to their eager users today. The entire device is essentially one big clip, attaching to any bit of clothing you have on you, while its base station can wirelessly collect data and upload it, via a pc, to a free online tracking dashboard. Add in the OLED display and a quoted battery autonomy of 10+ days, and the $99 price starts to appear pretty reasonable.
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posted Sep 29th 2009 10:01AM
So what does this give you over the fitbug www.fitbug.com?
For one thing ... No yearly fees
And another is lower cost of the unit
For starters this thing LOOKS pretty sleek, slimming (it's black), and attractive. It also doesn't appear to be weighed down by an associated monthly fee. I would think a closer rival to it would be the BodyBugg (like they were on NBC's show The Biggest Loser).
it also tracks your sleeping patterns
Ohh, i want one!!!!
Good old pedometers.
http://corndogger.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/pedobear-seal-approval.jpg
Based on actigraphy technology that has been around in research for a couple of decades now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actigraphy
I'm launching a rival service: Users will sign up and I'll send them periodic e-mails along the lines of "Hey Fatty, move a bit. F$#k, do you really sit at that computer all day? Eating twinkies? No wonder you're so fat". Obesity epidemic solved.
Next up, world peace ...
LOL now there is something id like to have an addon that makes me laugh at my day sitting at my desk eating my twinkies
The innovation and execution of this thing is really amazing me. Most fitness-gadgets i've come across are ugly and not easy to understand, while this seems to be the opposite. Nice
I agree. I thought it looked very cool. My wife, sadly, said she wasn't surprised. Which made me want it less.
I'm interested to see if/how the FitBit tracks more "intimate" forms of exercise...
Where would you clip it?
Please don't answer that.
Where would you clip it? Ouch!!!
Oops....looks like you beat me to it, Karl.
Now if the thing vibrated.....
now just bring it to canada.
"Degree sensor" ?!
Is that just something you made up to describe something the adults already have a real word for ?
So how exactly does it monitor calorie consumption?
It monitors calorie consumption as you input your calories consume into their webapp. State of the art this thing...
I just farted.
Tell you what, you send these to Europe and we'll send you all our cool cell phones. Deal?
Been waiting for this since january
i pre-ordered mine last year after reading about it here on engadget, and i've been fortunate enough to have beta tested the fitbit over the last month and some days.. it was definitely worth the year wait, that's for sure. the sleep tracking has been one of the most interesting things for me to see, especially.
and that battery life.. it's actual. trust me. :D
Not sure I'm understand what it is for and how exactly does it work...
Ordered mine on Sept 13, 2008, over a year ago. They updated their blog to say they were shipping to the first 10% of pre-orders this week with additional ones shipping in Oct and Nov, I was not one of those 10%. If you ordered in Jan, you still have a pretty good wait.