03 Mar 2015
By Belle
Fitness tracking games for kids, personal motivation coaching, and more: Quantified Self weekly links
Products
Skip-It and Twister now work with a kid-friendly fitness tracker
Remember Skip-It, the toy kids shackled and spun around their ankles in an attempt to rack up the high score on its built-in counter? It’s back, and now packing some legitimate technology in the form of a kid-friendly wearable fitness tracker that remembers their high score, as well as other fitness-related metrics.
- This fitness tracker monitors your sexual performance, presumably ruining it for everyone
- Fastfox: a cheap, colourful wearable that looks a lot like a Misfit Shine rip-off
Pozible, funded
Software
Instant 2.0
Android
Instant 2.0 tracks your device usage and connects to Google Fit to keep your fitness data at hand as well.
- Leon: personal motivation coaching
SMS
News and articles
The best fitness tracker for every need
Huge list of fitness trackers (available now and coming soon models included) with a mini review of each. The reviews are as subjective as any fitness tracker review, but worth a look.
- Pebble talk about their new smartwatch ideas
- Are we doomed to get rashes from our fitness trackers?
- The (pointless) argument over fitness trackers versus smartphones
Image credits: Gizmodo, Android Community, Gizmodo
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