Our start-up is essentially the anti-thesis of this.
We've had bathroom scales for over a century, yet as a society, we are more obese than ever.
More data isn't the answer, and all this talk about "insights" is just re-packaging of that data.
Next generation wearables go beyond harvesting data and showing pretty graphs. They directly affect our biology, physiology, and neurophysiology in real-time to improve our health. That's why we call them Affectables. Wearables that affect.
We're beginning by focusing on enhancing the restorative function of sleep. Not more sleep, not falling asleep faster, but the directly affecting the neurological processes that define the health benefits of sleep.
Going to have to see some serious citations to take this out of magnetic wrist strap territory. Can you provide a citation that playing a sound during a particular phase of sleep actually does something?
Where do I find any of the papers associated with these devices? Have you created a page for interested parties to dig into the research behind these devices?
Thanks, I'll take a look. I know someone who really struggles with insomnia. Generally speaking they wake up every night for an hour or two of tossing and turning. Based on your website, it sounds like this device aims to improve existing sleep, not deal with insomnia. Is that accurate?
Correlation != Causation. The obesity issue has many factors (Quality of food; sedentary lifestyle changes overtime etc), the access to weighing scales actually helped with reality checks for most people.
No. If we needed a counterfactual claim for everything, you could also claim that maybe scales made people fat, because we weren't fat before we had scales....
And I'm sure some will take that argument. I'm not running a debate club.
"We've had bathroom scales for over a century, yet as a society, we are more obese than ever."
Exactly! Couple decades ago they blamed human stupidity on lack of information. Look at us now with all the data available at our fingertips. We are so well informed that we should be better humans but we aren't.
Coming back to the Apple Watch (and alternatives) perhaps what we need along with all these "insights" are a shock collar (yes, like the one for a dog) that serves as a motivation to get off one's ass and get in to better shape. I'll bet that'll sell like hotcakes /s
We've had bathroom scales for over a century, yet as a society, we are more obese than ever.
More data isn't the answer, and all this talk about "insights" is just re-packaging of that data.
Next generation wearables go beyond harvesting data and showing pretty graphs. They directly affect our biology, physiology, and neurophysiology in real-time to improve our health. That's why we call them Affectables. Wearables that affect.
We're beginning by focusing on enhancing the restorative function of sleep. Not more sleep, not falling asleep faster, but the directly affecting the neurological processes that define the health benefits of sleep.
If you're curious to find out more, check out https://affectablesleep.com