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Roundup: Lifestyle Tracking Tools

Alexandra Carmichael

December 28, 2010

I’m starting to wonder – is there any aspect of life that cannot be tracked? This week’s roundup on lifestyle-tracking tools moves into deeply personal areas like sex life, baby’s sleep schedule, amount of drinking, menstrual cycles, meditation, and media consumption. Proceed with caution if you are squeamish. It’s part of our regular tool roundup for the…

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Trixie Tracker: Data-driven Parenting

Kevin Kelly

June 12, 2008

The Quantified Self is primarily about self-monitoring, and not about monitoring others. But your baby is close to the self, so there may be some technology in baby monitoring to be of use to adults. Trixie Tracker tracks and displays the activity patterns of babies. As they claim on their website: “Uncover patterns in your…

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Starting the Life Log Early – The LENA Baby Monitor

Gary Wolf

February 26, 2008

Review of the LENA Baby Monitor: a voice recorder that tucks into a child’s clothing and evaluates their “language environment” throughout the day.