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A water bottle that tracks how much you drink and more: Quantified Self weekly links

Products

HidrateMe, Kickstarter, funded

Explanation of how it works is light on, but this drink bottle can apparently track how much water you drink throughout the day. Its Kickstarter campaign is already 500% funded, and still has over a month to go.

• Lineable: $5 smart wristband for tracking the location of children

Software

STREAKS, iOS

Streaks lets you track up to 6 habits at a time. Its focus is on building an unbroken streak of checking off your daily habits, and it connects to Apple’s iOS Health app to automatically check off some fitness habits for you.

• Momentum for Apple Watch: simple habit tracking, iOS
• Adidas Go: running app that matches Spotify songs to your pace, iOS

News and articles

What makes people happy? We have the data.

Sukrit Mohan, senior software engineer in Jawbone’s data science team, explored Jawbone users' mood data to find correlations for happy and sad moods. He found that sleeping 8-9.5 hours per night correlated with the best morning mood scores, and that many users had better moods on weekdays at 5pm than earlier in the afternoon.

• Pebble Time review: an underdog among smartwatches
• Self-monitoring is the next big thing in workplace surveillance
• The ‘quantified self’ is irrelevant. Let’s shift mHealth from ‘me’ to ‘us’

Image credits: Hidrate, Inc., Brit + Co, Jawbone