Measuring Your Life in Calories, Quantify Your Life.
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more from News:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311153416.htm
In brief: "A group of Georgia Tech students has crafted a device that allows individuals to constantly compute the amount of calories they burn – even as they sleep.“It’s a completely converged device,” said Garrett Langley, 21, a senior in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) who spearheaded the project. “It’s a single unit that provides complete fitness monitoring and management.”
The article ends with the inventor's hopeful thoughts: “Ideally, this could change the way America stays in shape,” Langley said. “ ’Stay fit and be happy’ is the slogan. This is going to motivate people to exercise more and be happier.”
Will it really? I imagine a lot of unhappy people buying this device and falling into an obsession with numbers rather than the other aspects of exercise. Changing the physical does not necessarily change much else.
