Reddit user noveltysin wore a Fitbit during sex, and then posted a screenshot…
Self-surveillance
Insight to change our own behaviors.
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Fitbit during sex
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Playing chicken on the street and the ultimate battle for power
There’s the unspoken agreement between two people who walk directly towards each other.…
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Browser extension shows where you really are on the web
The Citizen Ex browser extension guesses where you’re geographically located on the web.…
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Upgraded self, but there’s a catch
With wearables and cheaper and advancing tech, the how part of personal data…
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Quantified email
There were a couple of similar quantified self articles last week about email.…
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A photo of everything touched, for 11 years
Artist Alberto Frigo took a picture of every object he used with his…
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Real-time dashboard for office plumbing
The Sid Lee agency in Paris has Arduino-powered sensors hooked up throughout their…
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Heartbeat during marriage proposal
The moments leading up to a marriage proposal can be both exciting and…
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Fitbit data to be used in court as evidence
Personal data from Facebook, Twitter, and email are already used, so sure why…
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Tracking online ads
We browse online, we see ads, and we buy stuff. The better-targeted the…
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Fitbit obsessed
After you’ve collected data about yourself for a while, you tend to go…
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Track your sleep with Sense
Entering the market of self-surveillance for sleep, via Kickstarter, Sense promises to be…
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Feltron Annual Report 2013
In his ninth edition of the personal report, Nicholas Felton looks at communication…
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You get a personal data site, and you get one, and you too →
Personal data collection keeps getting easier and more efficient. Much of what was…
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Jawbone UP24 Review
I tracked steps and sleep for the past month wearing the Jawbone UP24…
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Explore where you’ve been with Visits
Visits, a research project by Alice Thudt, Dominikus Baur, and Sheelagh Carpendale from…
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Personal smart garden system tracks soil and water conditions
Edyn, a new project on Kickstarter, aims to make gardening easier by tracking…
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The United States of Metrics isn’t such a bad thing
Bruce Feiler for The New York Times describes his concern and distaste for…
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Share your traces with a stranger
The MIT Media Lab Playful Systems group is working on an experiment in…
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UP Coffee app helps you track and understand caffeine consumption
How much caffeine can you consume during the day and still fall asleep…