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1. Atlas: a smarter fitness tracker

The Atlas fitness tracker promises to track your heart rate and activity, including workouts at the gym. It's also shipping with a screen that displays all of your data, and an API, which makes us happy.

The Indiegogo campaign has well and truly hit its goal, but there are a couple of days left if you want to get in on this.

2. Data Ownership

The team behind lifelogging app Saga have been blogging about data ownership and the consequences of collecting and sharing data about ourselves. This post posits that data ownership should be a right, rather than a privilege.

These companies are making money from the data they collect (usually without any financial compensation to the people who generate all that information). If someone no longer wishes to receive the service or other benefits that go along with providing that information, that user should have an easy way out.

3. Fitness trackers are useless without real-time, personalized analysis

This Mashable posts points out what we all know: fitness trackers haven't gone far enough yet. They're tracking our data and giving us numbers, but we need insights and understanding if we're going to make use of that data.

I think what we’ll start to see over the next couple of years is devices and tools telling people what they need to do, and I think that will be very interesting

4. GERO Lab

A crowdsourced research project to collect your activity data and identify health risks associated with age-related diseases.

5. Netatmo June

A stylish wristband to monitor your sun exposure. The accompanying app gives you personalised advice about avoiding sun damage and premature skin aging.

5. Garmin vívofit

Not the most stylish wristband tracker I've seen, but if you're a Garmin fan this might be the one for you. It does come in a bunch of colours: purple, green, blue, black and grey.

like the Fitbit Force, it has wireless syncing, a screen on the device to display your stats, sleep and step tracking, and it tells the time. It's water resistant (not waterproof, as many have been saying), so you can wear it in the rain or shower, but not for swimming.

One last cool note: the battery apparently lasts for over a year.

More

• tenXer: performance tracking for software developers
• Pact: commit to your goals and earn money for achieving them [Android & iOS]
• Fitbug personal plans: motivational plans for Fitbug users
• Tao Wellness tracker: track your activity all day as well as using the device for isometric exercise

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