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The custom wrist band for the Garmin seems to be only available as a bundle with the unit. I did not see where one could buy one on it’s own.
Bummer on Zeo, any idea what happens to their devices when they shut down? I assume most functions stop working.
FWIW it looks like the Hydrosleeve isn’t likely to hit its goal — albeit I’ve guessed wrong there before. 9 days left and it’s at 8.5K of 25K doesn’t look too promising, though.. Too bad, really, if not overly surprising. I’d probably have gotten one for, oddly enough, my dog. During runs I worry a lot more about his hydration than mine, in hot weather a dog loses a lot of water panting during a run. I suppose since I don’t need the fancy spout or anything, rigging up something similar for Summer runs wouldn’t be that difficult.
Also too bad, if not surprising, about Zeo. The combination of cost and weak (possibly nonexistent) medical applications, combined with every relatively cheap accelerometer based system on the planet basically filling the same niche as far as most people were concerned (fairly or unfairly, the Zeo wasn’t well known enough, nor did they differentiate it from units like the Fitbit or Up well enough), was always going to be a hard sell.
I have a close friend who runs a medical practice that she took through certification for home sleep monitoring last year. The whole certification process is a bit of a nightmare and the professional units they use are very expensive, more than a tad temperamental, and do a lot more than just measure brainwaves.
Sitting somewhere between the accelerometer based units and the medical grade units — albeit far closer to the former than the latter — I’m not really sure where they thought their market was going to come from.
Oh, and on the Android side Fitbit has been pushing frequent updates over the last few days. It seems their QC person is on holiday.
Interesting to see the direction Google is going (everything is a smart object, with things like the shoes and google glass), but Google is in control of the filter and algorithm for the information you see (bye-bye Google Reader).
Like the Garmin GTU 10, but specifically for bikes? link to kickstarter.com
Very cool. Poking at it now, adding it for next week!