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Will.i.am's new smart device and more: Quantified Self weekly links

Products

i.am/PULS

Will.i.am revealed his PULS device: not a smartwatch, since it comes with its own SIM card and doesn't need to be tethered to a phone to send texts and emails or make calls. It has a music streaming service built-in, its own voice assistant, and a fitness app to track your workouts.

• Leeo: smart smoke alarm
• Dorothy: click your heels to summon an Uber, text friends, and more
• ASUS ZenWatch
• Olive: wristband to monitor and improve your stress levels
  Indiegogo, funded

Software

Hooks
iOS, Android

All your alerts in one app. Get alerted about TV episodes, films, sports scores, new restaurants, sports scores, Twitter mentions, and more—on your phone or smartwatch.

• HabitBull: habit tracking
  Android
• Yawn Log: manual sleep tracking
  Web
• EveryMove @Work: company health program
  Web

News and articles

We Need Us

‘We Need Us’ is a living artwork, powered by people, and influenced by data. It is a live, online, animated artwork that explores both ‘life data’ and the life of data. The work concentrates on metadata – data about data - which it draws from the activities of citizen science project, Zooniverse, to create sounds and animation.

• RunKeeper will now bribe you to beat your best
• Reaching the ideal self
• Technology and body literacy
• Walmart brings the ‘Quantified Self’ to supermarket shopping

Image credits: Engadget, Hooks, We Need Us