17 Mar 2015
By Belle
Belle

New smartwatches, crowdfunding success stories, and more: Quantified Self weekly links

Products

Helvetica smartwatch by Mondaine

Helvetica watch by Mondaine

... calling the Helvetica No. 1 Smart a smartwatch might be a bit of a misnomer. A smarter watch might be a more accurate description because it doesn't handle notifications, or let you send text messages from your wrist. Its classical form factor is instead hiding basic fitness and sleep tracking functionality courtesy of a company called MotionX.

There's no mention of an API yet so keep in mind that your data won't be free to mingle if you use this watch.

Software

Punchtime for Trello
Web, iOS, Android

Punchtime

If you use Trello for your daily task management, you can use Punchtime to add simple time-tracking to your Trello cards.

News and articles

Fitness trackers won’t really help until they tell us what to do

trackers

David Pierce at Wired calls for essentially the exact thing we're trying to build with Exist:

Think about it: our devices know where we are, what we’re doing, the relative state of our body, and much more. What if a device or service could put all of that together, using biological and contextual clues to figure out what I’m doing, and either encourage me to continue, help me improve, or tell me to stop?

Image credits: Gizmodo, Punchtime, Wired

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