Lumo Lift tracks posture in real time and gently vibrates when you need to straighten up! It’s fashionable, easy to wear, tracks steps, calories & more.
A classic theory of behavioural psychology predicts that punishment should improve behaviour. But the first study of onl…
Facebook just bought itself an exercise app. It has snapped up Moves, a popular exercise app and pedometer. The app will live on, according to a blog post from Moves maker ProtoGeo Oy, a Finish com…
RunKeeper has just launched a competitor to Moves….
Endeavour Partners has written a white paper on wearables and behavior change… apparently some new survey data released with the whitepaper
I use it for iPhone and it really works…
-FT
Save money by resisting the Urge to Splurge. Urge is the Power of Small Change.
This is an iphone app (link to app store) that lets you transfer between your accounts when you resist spending urges programmatically.
Basically you can say “I am not going to get starbucks today” and then transfer that money instead to a savings account or your “cruise savings fund”.
Clever.
-FT
The device and sensor industry is getting hotter!!
According to themselves:
Everest is an iPhone app that helps you live your dreams and achieve personal goals.
It is a pretty interesting goal setting app that I will be trying! They also have a blog where they promote how their users have used the app to reach goals… itself a pretty cool motivational technique.
Thanks to John Loehrer for turning me on to this!!
-FT
This is a decent summary of the findings and implications