Fitness and Sleep Tracking

Track your fitness and health with Fitbit

The Fitbit accurately tracks your calories burned, steps taken, distance traveled and sleep quality. The Fitbit contains a 3D motion sensor like the one found in the Nintendo Wii. The Fitbit tracks your motion in three dimensions and converts this into useful information about your daily activities.

Connected devices that TRACK your health and fitness.

You can wear the Fitbit on your waist, in your pocket or on undergarments. At night, you can wear the Fitbit clipped to the included wristband in order to track your sleep. Anytime you walk by the included wireless base station, data from your Fitbit is silently uploaded in the background to Fitbit.com

FitBit Features:
  • Tracks calories, steps, distance and sleep quality
  • Integrated UI
  • Background wireless syncing
  • Stats and competitions
  • Free access to online tools and community

Fitbit is the new health and wellness monitoring tool and Website that make it easy for anyone to achieve a healthier lifestyle by automatically collecting data about a person’s daily activities and presenting this data in a motivating and entertaining way.

Fitbit Benefits

  • Automatically tracks your excercise intensity levels, calories burned, sleep quality, steps and distance.
  • Calories, steps and distance as well as your fitness avatar are illuminated on tracker’s OLED display
  • Ultra-compact wearable design wirelessly syncs to included base station
  • Collected data is automatically wirelessly uploaded to your personal Fitbit Website where you can track your progress towards your personal goals
  • Share your progress and create groups with others to encourage each other towards a common goal
  • Log nutrition, weight and other details to get a complete picture of your health

Technical Specifications

Display
Blue OLED shows steps, calories, distance, avatar

Display
Blue OLED shows steps, calories, distance, avatar

Data Storage
7 Days for minute-by-minute calorie burn, sleep data. 30 Days for daily steps, calories, distance.

Nutritional Info
Online database of over 50,000 foods

Battery
Runtime of over 10 days on single charge

Compatibility
Runs on Mac OS X and Windows XP or Vista

Battery
Runtime of over 10 days on single charge

Package Contents
Base Station
Sleep Wristband
Belt Holster (for thick belts)

Fitbit in the News

WIRED

Pocket-Sized Workout Pal Is Data Geek's Dream

http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_fitbit

"…A true boon for data-loving geeks who want to track their workout progress. Nicely designed, minimalist hardware. Doesn't just focus on exercise: Diet and sleep are also tracked. Easily clips to just about anything. Nerd-tastic amounts of data can be had for a single C-note…"

USA Today

Sensors shake up gadgets by Jefferson Graham

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-09-30-accelerometer-iphone-wii_N.htm

Wall Street Journal

Fitbit Sees How You Run, Walk and Sleep by Katherine Boehret, November 3, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513582518301794.html

"...But after just a couple days of using Fitbit, I got hooked on the idea of keeping digital tabs on myself, and I liked looking back at my activity log over a period of time. I started taking the long way walking to and from my Washington, D.C., Metro stop. Rather than rolling my chair over to the printer to grab a printout, I stood up and walked the four feet over to it so I could log a few extra steps..."

Health Magazine

Gear Guide: Fitbit Wireless Personal Trainerby Su Reid-St. John, December 4, 2009

http://living.health.com/2009/12/03/gear-guide-fitbit-wireless-personal-trainer/

"I began using it two weeks ago and have yet to go a day without wearing it...One reason, no doubt, is that it’s so darned easy to use..."

"...Even fitness editors like me need motivational nudges, and the Fitbit has risen to the challenge. I find myself getting out of my chair to pace during phone calls and doing extra flights of stairs just to increase my step number..."

ABC News Chicago

Wake Up Week: Energizing Gadgets With the Tech Tailor by Alex Goldfayn, The Technology Tailor, November 18, 2009

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=resources&id=7123691

Getting Fitbit:

Getting Fitbit: A new gadget helps track the healthy details of your life by David Ewalt, June 11, 2010

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/11/fitbit-tracker-pedometer-lifestyle-heatlh-lifetracking.html?boxes=techchanneltopstories

Glamour

"...How much do I love this little $99 fitness gadget? Let me count the ways..."

http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2009/12/meet-my-new-fitness-obsession.html

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