Consider investing in an inexpensive pedometer to track your movement while on the road.
It's a splash-resistant (but not waterproof) band that has a pedometer inside, counting your steps throughout the day.
Say a product designer comes up with an idea for a pedometer armband.
Participants took daily walks wearing a pedometer and spent five minutes a day talking to a virtual exercise coach called Tanya.
Their Diabetes Management Assistant (DIMA) is a wearable computer system with wireless communication including a glucose meter, digital camera and pedometer.
Their compliance would be monitored by a pedometer built into the handset.
Only last week McDonald's introduced a new Adult Happy Meal in the US that included a pedometer to encourage people to walk more.
Among them are Fitbit, a pedometer that tracks daily sleep and activity and uses social networking and gaming to motivate its users.
Bluetooth 4.0 would allow connection to other devices and an accelerometer, gyroscope and pedometer could make the watch a training tool for athletes.
Most of the current wearable devices confine themselves to health and fitness uses and contain basic technology, such as a motion-sensing pedometer that may offer less than precise readings.
They will embed a pedometer into the handheld, and reward players with coins that can be used to unlock otherwise inaccessible content in games like armor, weapons, levels, etc.
The pedometer tech inside also monitors your sleeping pattern.
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Last year, Greek tech-consultant and researcher Charalampos Doukas, who lives in Athens, bought a Fitbit One, a pedometer that measures how many steps he takes daily and how many calories he burns.
In addition to entertainment features, the 3DS has a pedometer to appeal to the health-conscious crowd that the Wii Fit tapped, as well as a variety of internet and wireless communication applications.
The company's experimental "Go Active Meal" will include a salad, a bottle of water, a booklet of exercises and a pedometer so you track you progress in one of Winfrey's favorite activities, walking.
Taveras' plan will make use of a pager-sized recorder put in a child's pocket that acts as a language pedometer, recording every conversation and word spoken to them through the course of their day.
Two weeks ago Striiv released a free stand-alone iPhone app to make its social motivation system accessible to everyone, including people that don't require the advanced tracking capabilities of the Striiv Smart Pedometer or Striiv Play.
Called "Providence Talks, " Taveras' plan will make use of a pager-sized recorder put in a child's pocket that acts as a language pedometer, recording every conversation and word spoken to them through the course of their day.
Nintendo 3DS, when put into Sleep Mode, can act as a pedometer, while letting users earn Play Coins for the steps they take that can then be traded in for additional content in compatible games and applications.
Like most prototypes, the the SWAN (System for Wearable Audio Navigation) is pretty bulky in its current form, with a laptop, GPS, inertial sensors, pedometer, RFID tags, RF sensors, a compass, and other gear all stuffed into a backpack, although they're apparently already working on a smaller version.
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