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Curated News - Is the ‘quantified self’ movement just a fad? - Computerworld

June 12, 2012

“People “quantify” their “selves” in many ways. They take pictures of everything they eat and drink, measure the distance they walk or run, monitor sleep patterns, record their “mood” at regular intervals, detect their blood pressure and heart rate, track their work priorities hourly, and more.”

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Curated News - Can Nike Fuel a Mobile Health Revolution? | Futurelab – We are marketing and customer strategy consultants with a passion for profit and innovation.

June 12, 2012

“Nike, as one of the most beloved consumer brands in the world, has the ability to turn the Nike+ FuelBand into part of a frontal attack on the modern healthcare establishment. Nike Fuel may just end up becoming a new mobile health platform that transforms “lifestyle tracking” into “lifestyle changing.”

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Curated News - Can Nike Fuel a Mobile Health Revolution? | Futurelab – We are marketing and customer strategy consultants with a passion for profit and innovation.

June 12, 2012

“revolutions start with the ability to take complex concepts and make them palatable and attractive for the masses”

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Curated News - Can Nike Fuel a Mobile Health Revolution? | Futurelab – We are marketing and customer strategy consultants with a passion for profit and innovation.

June 12, 2012

“The application to health and wellness is significant and important! Direct monitoring of these activities can provide essential information to guide your individual wellness, but also can be a tool to track activity and sleep as a measure of drug or device efficacy—by a physician or a pharmaceutical company. The clinical and lifestyle utility is endless. And as technology advances, the use of small and unobtrusive devices to record blood pressure and blood chemistries (like serum glucose), ECGs and EEGs, respiration and a host of other yet discovered uses will make devices like the UP a breakthrough in health and fitness that will help redefine how well we take care of ourselves”

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Curated News - How Big Data Gets Real - NYTimes.com

June 11, 2012

“The business of Big Data, which involves collecting large amounts of data and then searching it for patterns and new revelations, is the result of cheap storage, abundant sensors and new software.”

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Curated News - Nike Is Rebranding The Calorie, In A Deal With Xbox | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

June 10, 2012

“With Nike+ Kinect, Nike will begin counting what you do in a video game toward our Nike+ Fuel pool in the cloud, syncing all Nike+ services, including the new Fuelband, into a single measurable value of activity. It’s a digital health coup—a networked database of everything you do in an era when my doctor’s office still updates patient files with a typewriter.”

via Nike Is Rebranding The Calorie, In A Deal With Xbox | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

Curated News - Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

June 10, 2012

“In 2004 Bill Clinton found he was feeling short of breath. Doctors discovered that several of his arteries were over 90% blocked and 3 days later he had a quadruple bypass. It seems reasonable to assume Bill Clinton has the best medical care available. And yet even he had to wait till his arteries were over 90% blocked to learn that the number was over 90%. Surely at some point in the future we’ll know these numbers the way we now know something like our weight. Ditto for cancer. It will seem preposterous to future generations that we wait till patients have physical symptoms to be diagnosed with cancer. Cancer will show up on some sort of radar screen immediately.”

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Curated News - In lifelogging, you find your statistical (and egotistical?) self - latimes.com

June 05, 2012

“Beyond everyday personal goals and health concerns, though, the point of lifelogging seems sentimental. With increasingly seamless ways to gather daily reports on food, location, mood and activity, lifelogging risks turning into digital hoarding. Without a story or some kind of context, it says nothing more about us than a look in a detailed mirror. And like a reflection, it captures our attention — because it is about us.”

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Curated News - In lifelogging, you find your statistical (and egotistical?) self - latimes.com

June 05, 2012

“The same data, when gathered by and about ourselves and motivated by sincere curiosity and a desire for self-improvement, feel very different than when collected by Facebook, Google and other corporations and tech companies.”

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Curated News - In lifelogging, you find your statistical (and egotistical?) self - latimes.com

June 05, 2012

“He called much of the data he tracks a “WORN memory — write once, read never.” Many of us, self-identified as lifeloggers or not, can relate.”

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“revolutions start with the ability to take complex concepts and make them palatable and attractive for the masses”

“The business of Big Data, which involves collecting large amounts of data and then searching it for patterns and new revelations, is the result of cheap storage, abundant sensors and new software.”

“The same data, when gathered by and about ourselves and motivated by sincere curiosity and a desire for self-improvement, feel very different than when collected by Facebook, Google and other corporations and tech companies.”

“He called much of the data he tracks a “WORN memory — write once, read never.” Many of us, self-identified as lifeloggers or not, can relate.”