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Sep 21, 2015

How A Health Insurance Is Using Wearable Data To Motivate Its Customers

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CSS, one of Switzerland’s biggest health insurers, is testing a pilot program to incentivize or, depending on your perspective, penalize its customers based on fitness data. Launched in July…

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Aug 12, 2015

Event Recap: NY Quantifiable Self Show and Tell

On August 6th, the IPG Media Lab attended a NY Quantified Self Show & Tell event where some entrepreneurs showcased their creations. Many of the products on display were still in early stages of development and few had direct marketing…

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Dec 10, 2014

How Wearables Can Help The Health Insurance Industry

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This week, Oscar Insurance launched a new program: the company is giving away Misfit fitness trackers in hope of motivating its clients to exercise more and stay healthy. If users…

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Dec 8, 2014

The Daily Beast Wants To Quantify Your News Intake

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With its newly launched mobile app, The Daily Beast is spearheading the transition of Quantified Self movement from health and fitness into digital news. The app tracks what users…

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Jan 21, 2014

Barriers To Wearable Adoption

Wearables were undoubtedly one of the categories at CES with the most growth potential. With embedded sensors, these wearables can measure everything from calories consumed to steps taken and hours slept. As this Fast Co article points out, however, there are some serious…

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Nov 26, 2013

Athos Core Improves Quantified Self

Athos is taking quantified self to the next level with its new product: Core. Using proprietary EMG sensors, mounted wirelessly in custom Athos workout garments, Core aggregates information about heart rate, breathing and how a user is working individual muscle…

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Nov 14, 2013

Under Armour Purchases MapMyFitness

In an acquisition that is reported to be worth $150 million, Under Armour is adding MapMyFitness to forcefully inject itself into the quantified self movement. MapMyFitness has over 20 million registered users, 700,000 of which use the service daily. It puts Under…

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Jul 29, 2013

Smart Tooth Sensor Prototyped in Taiwan

Data informs our lives more and more every day. A final frontier of the data craze — the last private realm — has been the human body itself, but with the advent of FitBit and similar technologies, even that is fair game in the name of improved health…

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Jun 12, 2013

Twitter And Everyday Health Deliver Sponsored Health Alerts

When we think of diagnostic tools, stethoscopes and blood pressure monitors may come to mind, but how about Twitter? According to Everyday Health, the publisher will partner with Twitter to mine health-related tweets to…

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May 1, 2013

Jawbone Up To Connect With Other Apps

With so many wearable devices, it can be hard to keep up which is why Jawbone is integrating with other apps to become the centralized quantified self platform. Leveraging their API, Jawbone could integrate with other services like Nike+ or Withings to begin…