I never remembered waking up, but having the Up24 tell me I did helped me understand why I was tired the next morning, and helped me decide how much earlier I should go to sleep the next night to catch up.
Personally, when I saw one day that my longest active time was 30 minutes and my longest idle time was 59 minutes, I wanted to walk around my office to bring up my active time. And at the end of the day, my activity numbers alone were enough to make me feel victorious or defeated. The only activities you have to input yourself are workouts. The list of exercises you can track is similar to any workout app, tracking cross training, weight lifting, cardio workouts, and Pilates.
But during my elliptical workout, I was surprised that both the Up24 and the elliptical reported a similar number of calories burned. I was not expecting a tracker and an exercise machine to give me comparable numbers; exercise machines have been known to be notoriously inaccurate.
Koepp told me that devices now have the ability to be 90 percent accurate when calculating caloric expenditure, so while those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, they can be a measurement of success.
These cards help the Up24 do something much better than similar devices: telling you what to do with your data. In this sense, Up24 is trying in a small way to be more than just a tracker. Most people will not have the initiative, or the time, to look up what the next step could be to make them healthier. Its rubbery matte finish looks like a Livestrong bracelet, and its dot LED display can easily be read in full daylight and is even faster to scroll through than the previous model.
Its snap closure can be a little tricky — it sometimes pinched my skin — but it does come in three sizes so you can get the best fit for your wrist. From the desktop software, you can set goals, reminders, and all your personal information, and then pair your FuelBand with the mobile app.
The entire FuelBand experience has an athletic feel. You have the option to see smaller bits of scientific data, but the point of Fuel is to simply be a bar you have to raise every day.
Nike also claims the FuelBand can recognize different activities by using its accelerometer to detect motion on three different axes. The activity choices, however, show how sports-focused the device is. Then I tried to report my run as a basketball session, but the Fuel points and the number of calories burned were the same. I thought this would be easy to achieve at first, but my regular office activities like getting up to go to the restroom and walking to see the video team one floor down were not enough to win hours.
The most successful attempt I had was going out to buy lunch, and even then I had to take my time. New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system. The black FuelBand SE wristband comes with new options for yellow, pink, or red accents. The SE comes with even more built-in game mechanics to encourage users to want to move more throughout the day. As Parker hinted :. The goal will be for the partner companies to leave the accelerator program with an optimized NikeFuel integration.
Bt if you get in your office, sit and your desk for nine hours straight and then go home, it's a fascinating experiment to try and be active each hour regardless of whether you get a FuelBand or not.
If, that is, your boss doesn't wonder where the heck you're going every hour and fire you. Depending on how competitive you are will determine how much emphasis you put on Hours - we could easily see ourselves delaying exercise to straddle the start of an hour to maximise wins. In attempt to try and catalogue exercise and sleep, the FuelBand SE is now able to record activities as Sessions to then analyse them via the iPhone app or on the desktop.
You can activate a session by holding down the single button until the word start appears. Then tap it again to instigate a three second countdown. Once started you'll get a Fuel per minute count, elapsed time, and total Fuel earned during the session.
At the end you get a summary of all the data before it disappears for good. Via the band you can't recall or tag the information, though, which is where the app comes in. Sessions are easy to start, but easy to forget to turn off - and that has caused us some problems. It's also easy to think you've started a session when you've not, or easy to forget about them altogether.
It's possible to manually edit the start and end time of a session via the app, but doing so wipes the ability to see the Fuel point data for that session. Instead you're left with a big, fat "0" rather than a new averaged number - another frustration. In the app you can tag these sessions and that then allows you to monitor past performances, although with little data beyond Fuel there's not much to go against. Earning 1, points for a 26 minute run doesn't really mean much. You can set your own tags rather than be forced to choose from ones pre-set by Nike and for activities that don't involve you moving your arms around it will ask how hard you've worked and offer to give you some Fuel points to make up for the band's shortcomings.
You'll earn virtually nothing when cycling, for example, so it attempts to compensate for this. Start a session as you jump into bed and when you wake up and end the session you can see how long you've slept for. If you're not so tired that you forget to end it. In bed and the band feels cumbersome though. It's not perfectly suited for resting against your face or under the pillow while you lie there.
If anything it's akin to wearing a large watch in bed - and that's something we've never done. If you don't want to view the fascinating data that tells you how much you tossed and turned, we've found you can just as effectively measure your sleep by starting a session and then putting the FuelBand SE on your bedside table instead.
In our week of testing we got 45 hours and 21 minutes of sleep you'll be pleased to know. While you don't need to use the app to use the Nike FuelBand SE, to get the most out of the device you do. And that, therefore, means owning an Apple device rather than Android, Windows, Blackberry or whatever else you may happen to own. You connect the band to your iPhone via Bluetooth LE and it automatically syncs the data and sends you the Hourly alerts to get moving. The app itself is fairly simple with the main features broken down into areas driven off a menu system that is revealed with a swipe.
On the settings front you can manage the FuelBand's time, what information is shown, change your goal status and even set up when you get notifications. You can also select whether the FuelBand is worn on your left or right wrist.
The Today section shows your current activity for that day with the ability to see it in context across the given week, how much you are ahead - or behind - compared to other people in your gender and age peer group, your data compared to the same day the previous week, and the new-to-SE option to share pictures, who you are with, or location data. An Activity tab gives you more data mining options and shows historical data points over day, week, month, and year measures, as well as a greater breakdown of whether you've achieved your Fuel points late at night, in the morning, afternoon, or evening.
Yes, those midnight strolls back from the pub are there to see in plain sight. This section also shows Session data, Trophies you've won, pictures you've snapped, and averages of your data.
The monthly view even goes as far as telling you when your most active days were. The Sessions area lets you manage your sessions, as well as start them from the app if you can't be bothered to press the button on the band. It also changes colour in real time to let you know you are moving from red through to yellow and green as you come to achieve a goal. On the social side there's a Friends section for, as the name suggests, keeping tabs on your friends.
According to Nike if you've got your mates on the system you're more likely to want to do better and achieve your goals - nothing like a bit of peer pressure. You'll have to make your Nike account "Social" to find and add people, but there's nothing more entertaining than seeing that you are beating your mates.
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