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"Speaking of sensors, the Microsoft Band has a lot of them. In addition to fitness tracker essentials—tri-axis accelerometer, gyrometer, and barometer—the Band also has ambient light, skin temperature, and capacitive sensors, a microphone, built-in GPS, and a continuous optical heart rate monitor."

The technology to spy just got a lot more compact. What I didn't realise, as the title suggests is, software is eating the fitness industry.

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> software is eating the fitness industry.

Unfortunately it doesn't improve on the current state of things (health improvements on a matter larger scale), although it's getting cheaper.

"health improvements on a matter larger scale"

A weak aspirational statement.

This is a western consumer device/application and as such why should it have to improve everyones health?

What is interesting is it allows individuals (rich in your terms) to use some pretty sophisticated electronics along with consumer software to monitor their health without having to see a health specialist. The data alone could be useful for individuals medical practitioners.

I stand by what I said above.

Maybe I'm reading your comment wrong, but you seem to have an exactly opposite vision for what is good than I personally have. You say: data collection is bad ("spying"), letting rich get individual health monitoring is cool. I say, data collection is cool and let's have more of it to achieve johnchristopher's "health improvements on a matter larger scale", and stop wasting perfectly good tech on creating toys for clueless rich people.

"Maybe I'm reading your comment wrong"

yes

Thanks for clearing that up for us.

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