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In announcing 'the next chapter of Apple's story' Apple CEO Tim Cook chose to call an apple an apple.
Mike Rucker's insight:
"Apparently this is important..." 
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jawbone said on Monday it is opening its software to other device-makers in hopes of accelerating sales of its activity-tracking wristbands, in a move that comes a day before
Mike Rucker's insight:
I applaud this move. We need to move away from disparity regarding integration. The upside is more commercialization, so the digital health market should view this as a win-win.
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A new kind of accelerometer could bring sophisticated motion sensing to even cheap mobile phones.
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When you think of biosensors through the lens of Moore's Law, your imagination can take you to some pretty cool places...
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Low-power wearables may soon bid adieu to batteries and start drawing energy generated by body heat and movement, and ambient energy from the environment.
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People who use wearable gadgets to monitor their health or activity can be tracked with only $70 (£40) of hardware, research suggests.
Mike Rucker's insight:
As we reach market saturation wearables and security will become increasingly important.
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An Indian startup made a pair of Bluetooth smart shoes called Lechal that can give you directions via vibrations and track your activity levels.
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First I reported on a cup that tells you what you are drinking, and now I give you a shoe that tells you how to walk... #SolutionButNoProblem #Wearables
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A new set of investments from big-name brands Nike, The North Face and Tory Burch are bringing some much-needed utility and appeal to mobile apps that keep them afloat. Once considered the primary (and often uneffective) way for brands to get into mobile, brands are now applying better types of content and data to fitness apps.
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Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy and Innovation at The Marketing Arm argues that brands should develop their own wearables because of the trove of data the devices open up for better marketing... "Brands like Nike see the day coming soon where it is less about the hardware and more about sharing and visualizing the data that is collected through whatever the device, be it smart clothing, watches or glasses." You think that day might have come in April when Nike laid off most of their Fuelband team?
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Wearables, devices used to sense data and process it into information, are generating quite the buzz in healthcare these days. But down the line, does that buzz come with a sting? In Wearable Tech News, Tony Rizzo reports wearable technology spending predictions of $50 billion by 2018. He also reports on a ground-breaking, glucose-sensing contact lens for diabetics that will be a “true solution for a very real medical problem that affects hundreds of millions of people.” By 2016, wearable wireless medical device sales will reach more than 100 million devices, according to a Cisco blog on the future of mobility in healthcare. The importance of these devices is that healthcare professionals can access critical data via mobile apps before, during and after a patient’s hospitalization, thus boosting the speed and accuracy of patient care, the blog says. The Age of Wearables has a few caveats, though – note that a doctor “can,” “could,” “may” or “potentially” be able to monitor a patient from a wearable, as the products are still under development. One product cites unpublished research as support, and another uses a modality, thermography, that the National Cancer Institute states has no additional benefit for breast cancer screening. The new, intense focus on wearables is the engagement of the general public, both the ill and the well, and how they collect and transmit patient information to physicians and EHRs. This presents two challenges: 1. Are physicians prepared for this tidal wave of data and information? 2. What is the true cost of the data surge versus its benefits? Like all healthcare information technology, wearables have huge potential – married to massive challenges. Via nrip
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The answer to #1 from the doctors I have spoken with is a resounding no. The answer to #2 is a bit more complicated.
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Revealed at the Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco: the "dirty little secret" of activity trackers and smartwatches is that they're still not worth it.
Mike Rucker's insight:
Those that came by my Quantified Self talk last year know the "secret" was actually revealed at little earlier than the Wearable Technologies Conference...
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SAN MATEO, California (Reuters) - Intel Corp's Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich mingled with electronics buffs at Silicon Valley's annual maker mecca on Saturday as the chipmaker looks to amateur
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While the wearables business is getting increasingly crowded, Adidas says it can carve out a niche for itself by placing a personal fitness coach on peoples’ wrists.
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Not to be outdone by Microsoft, Adidas joins the activity tracker fray...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The next addition to the collection of health apps coming online for smartphones may be a stress test, researchers said at a recent conference.With a simple tube, some software
Mike Rucker's insight:
Us folk in the Quantified Self cohort have been looking for a good way to accurately measure stress for some time. This could be a really big deal if it pans out.
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Despite months of anticipation, Apple’s Keynote suggests that the Apple Watch is not ready to meet our lofty healthcare aspirations – at least for now.
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It's not always easy to tell when your stress levels are through the roof, and you may not always want to break out a heart rate sensor just to find out
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Apple is charging into health and fitness, hoping to bring order to a fragmented mess of wearable devices and scattered data.
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HealthKit and Google's Fit are such game changers. Most of my cohorts agree with me that the phone is ultimately going to be the conduit to health data. Now that your device imposes itself as the Rosetta Stone for disparate data, us product guys do not need to worry about which wearable you're using. Big things are afoot!
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Medical data is a hot spot for venture investing and product innovation. The payoff could be better care.
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As products using coil-based wireless charging standards roll out, Bay Area-based startup Energous hopes radio frequency charging will take hold in the burgeoning wearables market targeting devices with relatively modest needs up to 10 Watts.
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Wireless charging for wearables just blows my mind...
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Called Baseline Study, Google's project will gather anonymous genetic and molecular information to create a full picture of what a healthy human is.
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This project, if executed well, will be great for getting quantitative baselines. This is really cool stuff.
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A technology company invents a cup that can identify and monitor its contents in real time.
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Stephen Colbert pokes fun at the fact that quantifying what we do for the sake of quant is a little silly. Great clip. Using humor to showcase digital health design should be a lot more about great UX than solving non-existent problems.
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South Korea's tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to join hands with U.S.-based sports clothing maker Under Armour Inc., market sources said Wednesday, indicating the smartphone maker's move to expand presence in the global wearable devices market.
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As fitness trackers such as Fitbit, Nike+ FuelBand and Jawbone Up rise in popularity, so does the technology’s presence in health clubs.
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Looks like Crunch Fitness has gotten in bed with dotFit; it will be interesting to see how hard they push dotFit's meal replacement products too. Higher margins in meal replacement.
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Researchers for ACSM found that homeware activity trackers were on par or better than most devices used for research.
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Wearable tech is all set to be the next big marketing channel.
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This made me throw up in my mouth a little bit...
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Not my normal type of digital health scoop but what Elizabeth Holmes has done is truly amazing, and this type of disruption is why digital health is so important.