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Fitbit Ditches the Screen With Its New $99 Whoop Rival (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I really don't get why earbuds do not have much of the health device functionaility. Seems the perfect place for temp, o2, heartrate, etc and theoretically you should be able to judge steps from any point but between the phone and this you could triangulate.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Constantly wearing ear buds is not good for you, and ear buds should (ideally) not be worn while sleeping, making them ineligible for constant health tracking and sleep tracking.

    I basically only use my Fitbit for sleep tracking, and I really don't understand why AsteroidOS and other similar open source OSes and watches don't have sleep tracking (including sleep cycle tracking and sleep metrics).

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Im thinking more casually I guess. Like folks that don't otherwise use them but have earbuds in on a regular basis. Like communiting to and from work and such. I like walking and biking and kinda ideal for me would actually be a single one to keep the other ear free. geting stats for an hour twice a day seems like it would be kinda useful.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    you'd think they'd be able to do that considering most of them all use common bluetooth components.. it'd just require someone like qualcomm to go integrate an led driver and sensor and add a MEMS gyro. I'm willing to have chonky earbuds for better bass driver, I'd accept a few mm³ being allocated to a MEMS gyro/accel... I think you're right and now I'm mad with you.

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