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Make your bike a smart bike, and more: Quantified Self weekly links

Products

Connected Cycle Pedals, Indiegogo, funded

Connected pedal is “a smart pedal that turns your bike into a smart bike”. The pedal tracks your rides via GPS without using your phone’s battery or data plan, and can alert you to theft attempts.

• Petcube: pet monitor and social network

Software

Slim, iOS

Weight tracking app connected to Apple Health.

• HSM: challenges to help you cut back on alcohol, iOS

News and articles

Under Armour’s MyFitnessPal goes premium for fitness fanatics

…this is meant for serious fitness buffs. For either $10 a month or $50 a year, users can build custom nutrition reports and dig through the minutia of their health data without being bothered by ads.

Your calorie and nutrition goals can differ based on the day of the week. There’s also custom home screens that put details like your carb or salt intake right up front if you have a specific goal ahead of a big race, like lowering your blood pressure or loading carbs. You can even see which foods are contributing the most sugar to your diet.

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Image credits: Connected Cycle, Caloon, Engadget