Study: Consumer wearable devices tend to measure some metrics well (heart rate, cardiorespiratory fitness) but others not so well (energy expenditure, sleep quality)

By The Conversation | September 4, 2024 |

Back in 2010, Gary Wolf, then the edi­tor of Wired mag­a­zine, deliv­ered a TED talk in Cannes called “the quan­ti­fied self”. It was about what he termed a “new fad” among tech enthu­si­asts. These ear­ly adopters were using gad­gets to mon­i­tor every­thing from their phys­i­o­log­i­cal data to their mood, and even the num­ber of nappies…

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