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Tracking your dog, your skin and more - Quantified Self weekly links

1. Indiegogo campaign: ScanZ acne tracker

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The ScanZ acne tracker was announced at the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe conference in Berlin last week:

ScanZ is a palm-size app-connected skin scanner that lets users know when a pimple will likely go away and how to make that happen as fast as possible - it also predicts future breakouts, the company claims.

Apparently, the app tracks your diet and which cleaning products you use, and the tracker itself takes “transdermal images of the skin surface” to monitor acne levels.

2. Smartwatch roundup

If you’ve been thinking about getting a smartwatch, here’s a great roundup of the biggest players in the market right now, including:

• Omate TrueSmart
• Qualcomm Toq
• Kreyos Meteor
• HOT Smartwatch
• Metawatch
• Pebble
• Cookoo
• Martian
• I’m Watch
• Sony SmartWatch 2
• WIME NanoSmart
• Samsung Galaxy Gear

3. Life After Quantifiable Self

Michael Allen Smith wrote this thought-provoking post on his blog about how his health improved when he stopped tracking it, and why tracking isn’t always useful.

Although my Hunting Headaches experiments were simple, the collective duration was too long and it stopped being interesting once my confidence in solving the riddle was diminished.

4. A Quantified Self collar for your dog

Apparently tracking ourselves isn’t enough, so now there’s a collar to help you track your dog’s behaviour as well:

Dr. Cassim Ladha and Nils Hammerla have designed a “collar-worn accelerometry platform” that can recognize 17 standard dog behaviors, including chewing, peeing, shivering, and sniffing.

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