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You might not have ever heard of Misfit Wearables but you’ll want to pay attention starting now that its first gadget has made its debut.
Founded by Agamatrix founders Sonny Vu and Sridhar Iyengar, the Redwood City-based company also credits former sugar water peddler and Apple CEO John Sculley as a co-founder. And its backed by Khosla Ventures, which seems to knows its shit when it comes to wearable health tech. Not only did Khosla-backed Jawbone announce UP 2.0 the other day, today Misfit Wearables is announcing its first wellness consumer product, the Shine.
In an already crowded market (read: UP, FuelBand, LarkLife, Fitbit, Amiigo, etc.), the £65-odd Shine, uh, shines for a number of reasons, including the accolade for “world’s first all-metal wireless fitness device”. Say what? The coin-sized wearable activity tracker syncs with your smartphone without a cable connection or Bluetooth connection. Place Shine on top of your smartphone and voila!
But what exactly is it?
Like Fitbit or UP or any other glorified pedometer, the Shine tracks any bipedal motion — walking, jogging, running — to help you reach your specified goal. It even calculates cycling and swimming, but adds a more weighted value to those activities. “For activities outside these three (the triathlon sports), it’ll act like other activity monitors in that it will measure general activity levels and convert to steps,” Vu told me. So you can’t really adjust your yoga session into Shine’s software like you can with the UP, for instance.
Carved out of a solid chunk of aircraft grade aluminium, the Shine is waterproof but somehow displays a halo of lights that show progress and even the time. It weighs less than 10 grams and runs on a replaceable battery that you can switch out every six months or so. A powerful magnet can be attached to wear just about anywhere on your body or you can snatch a wristlet accessory if that’s more your thing.
While Vu wouldn’t tell me what types of components make up the guts of the Shine, he did say that an accelerometer is one of a couple different sensors wedged into the disc.
So how this any different than the others? Well, for starters, Vu and Iyengar founded Agamatrix, which created the first FDA approved glucose meter for the iPhone. So yeah, these guys know a thing or two about the health tech arena.
And if you figured out that the name of the company is somehow related to Steve Jobs, then you win a cookie! (Sorry, I don’t have cookies for all of you.)
“As far as the Misfit name goes, we happened to be founded on the day Steve Jobs died. John Sculley and I were sitting at a restaurant near Cupertino talking about the venture when we heard the news and, inspired by the “Here’s to the crazy ones” commercial, we decided on the name,” said Vu. “We also liked the name because all of us at some point in our lives have felt like we didn’t fit in, and now we finally have a home with like-minded friends and colleagues at the company.”
Misfit raised its $100,000 within 10 hours on indiegog, but it’s got varying tiers of contributions left for you to grab. The Shine may retail for £65-odd but you can throw down £50 now to secure one for a March 2013 delivery, but you best be quick.
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Now why would I spend 50 quids on this where my app on Android could do all these or even more without the hassel of sync! Obviously you don’t need a activity tracker for sports like swimming and football now do you? One of those glorified iDevices.
All of these devices seem like they’re stuck in the past. What we need is something that measures performance of the major muscle groups as well as heart rate and blood pressure.
I actually don’t know anyone who runs beyond a 10 min warm up. We all do crazy intense interval muscle mutant sessions.
All of these devices seem like they’re stuck in the past. What we need is something that measures performance of the major muscle groups as well as heart rate and blood pressure.
I actually don’t know anyone who runs beyond a 10 min warm up. We all do crazy intense interval muscle mutant sessions listing weights.
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Man that was intense – feel the burn, oh yeah!
All of these devices seem like they’re stuck in the past. What we need is something that measures performance of the major muscle groups as well as heart rate and blood pressure.
I actually don’t know anyone who runs beyond a 10 min warm up. We all do crazy intense interval muscle mutant sessions lifting weights.
Déjà vu
Déjà vu
Déjà vu
he got his point across
And I changed my last sentence twice too! I should say the ‘multiple post blocker thingy’ should have stopped this from happening.
ordered Shine to see what it’s like, now let’s wait.
Will be interesting to test it, the app is already available for the lucky few testing one.
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