Tag: Quantified Self

Digital health can make us live longer – but at what price?

By Adam Tinworth

Health data is the next big data set about ourselves companies are eager to get their hands on. And wearables make that easy. But have we really thought this through?
Microsoft Band: on the boundary of smartphone and fitness tracker

By Adam Tinworth

Microsoft has unexpectedly joined the wearable and quantified self markets with a new fitness band that muscles in on smartphone territory.
Forget shiny toys, Apple just built the future in software

By Adam Tinworth

Apple, the great hardware company, gave a software-only keynote yesterday. And developers and consumers both have good reasons to be interested.
Aza Raskin: behaviour change is the new blockbuster drug

By Adam Tinworth

We kill ourselves more than external factors do. How to we fix that? By understanding what people are doing, and intervening in helpful ways.
Louisa Heinrich: design for people, not objects

By Adam Tinworth

Louisa Heinrich predict your home becoming a battle ground of connect objects, and has great ideas for superpowers in a bar. This is the internet of things - in the new normal.
iBeacons and supply chains: making the physical digital

By Adam Tinworth

Two talks exploring the interface between the digital and the physical, from supply chains to the last few feet.
Wearables: Motorola watches while Apple waits

By Adam Tinworth

All eyes are on the… wrist? Wearables seem to be the next area of interest technological development, and the next wave of Android smartphones is only a few months away. Will customers wait for Apple?
5 things I learnt from LeWeb day two

By Adam Tinworth

Insights on the cloud, innovation, mobile and body image.
Wearable computing should be invisible computing

By Adam Tinworth

Could wearable data-collectors and their ilk be the heralds of the age of unconscious computing?
Your Wearable Computing Reader

By Adam Tinworth

In the wake of CES, there's a wave of wearable devices coming our way. Here's some links to the best round-ups…
Do you own data about yourself?

By Adam Tinworth

What's the point in quantifying yourself if you can't get hold of the data you produce? Data ownership: here be dragons…
The quantified self needs actionable data

By Adam Tinworth

I've accidentally joined the quantified self movement through a need for a silent alarm - and I've suddenly become a convert. The secret is in actionable data…
The Hero with a Thousand Faces

According to Louisa Heinrich, the best services are those that allow us to tell our stories. And the next challenge in design is based on the fact that more and more objects are connected. The amount of data available about all of us and our environment is growing tremendously. But what to do with this data?
Louisa Heinrich – our quantified selves and the stories of our lives

By Adam Tinworth

What stories could we tell with the big data we're collecting? Human beings are narrative creatures, and we need to stop being afraid of what we might unleash, says Louisa Heinrich
The 4-Hour Body

Tim Ferriss…