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Even hula hoops are getting the 'smart' treatment
It's been roughly 20 years since I picked up a hula hoop and wiggled my waist with the elegance of, well, a technology journalist with zero coordination. But here I am, in the middle of Mobile World Congress, shaking my booty while a dozen or so attendees look on with a mixture of amusement and befuddlement. I'm trying out the Vhoop, a chunky ring with an embedded motion sensor that tracks your workouts in real-time. They're sent via Bluetooth to a companion app that lists your clockwise and counter-clockwise revolutions, calories burned and workout duration.
