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Wunderlist from your command line, food tracking with sculpture, and more: Quantified Self weekly links

Products

doppel, Kickstarter, funded

doppel is a new breed of performance-enhancing wearable technology that can naturally make you feel more alert or relaxed. By rhythmically pulsing on the inside of your wrist, doppel harnesses our innate response to rhythm. We react to doppel’s pulse in a similar way to upbeat or downbeat music but with no noise or distraction.

• Saent: a physical button to help you focus, Indiegogo, not funded yet

Software

Wunderline

A command line interface for Wunderlist.

• Five Minute Journal: gratitude and positivity journal, iOS
• Nekoze: posture warning app, Mac

News and articles

An artist sculpted everything he ate in a year

For drinks like wine and water, he’d calculate how many gallons he drank and determine how many bottles or cans that amounted to. He cut the leaves off cauliflower to produce a more compact shape, glued individual grapes together to build a perfect bunch, and even made rubber vegetables for his hamburgers since the vegetables were too flimsy to mold. For a pineapple, he used cactus to replace the fruit’s leaves. “It looks exactly like a pineapple,” he says. “Even nicer, I think.”

• Computer scientists developed an algorithm that can show you how to be fashionable
• Google’s new health watch will keep tabs on patients' vitals
• The next design trend is one that eliminates all choices
• Fitbit tracking data comes up in another court case

Image credits: Team Turqoise, Wunderline, Wired