DevOps

The physical ring

I bought a ring with physical buttons. It is not smart. It is the smartest ring I bought. The ring that cost me the most has no health monitoring. N…

I nearly fooled myself validating a wearable IMU classifier — here's the bug and the fix

Most of the validation work on vaas-x so far had been industrial sensor data — turbofans, machine telemetry. I wanted to know if the same zero-confi…

The Dark Side of Wearable Data: What No One Talks About

Look, everyone is now hopping on the “wearables” train. We have seen millions of smartwatches, rings and patches, collecting huge amounts of data re…

Wearables and the Rise of Everyday Bio-Surveillance

A few years ago, wearable technology felt empowered. You woke up, checked your sleep score, tracked your steps, monitored your heart rate and it fel…

Google unveils Whoop-like screenless Fitbit Air

The device comes with health and fitness tracking like 24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with Afib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart ra…