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David Duncan – Experimental Man
Gary Wolf
April 3, 2009
Here is a video from the latest QS Show&Tell of David Duncan describing the research he presents in his book Experimental Man.
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Are Self-Trackers Narcissists?
Gary Wolf
February 17, 2009
“Are self-trackers narcissists? Results from NPI-16” at the QS Show&Tell; video by Paul Lundahl. Are self-trackers narcissists? In the video above, from the recent QS Show&Tell, I report on trying to find an answer. Here I give a quick summary of that talk and a reference link. I decided to run this test because a…
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Matt Cutts hacks his WiiFit for biometrics
Gary Wolf
February 4, 2009
Courtesy of the always courteous Paul Lundahl, we have some video from the recent QS Show&Tell to share. Here’s the first, with Matt Cutts talking about hacking his WiiFit into a more or less automated weight tracking system. If you like what he’s talking about, you can look on his blog for explicit instructions. Right…
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Zume Life – Beta Invitation
Gary Wolf
January 30, 2009
I have been experimenting with a self-tracking system called Zume Life, from the company founded by regular QS attendee Rajiv Mehta. I wrote about Raj’s QS Show&Tell presentation here. We don’t have the video up but the youtube video embedded below is the impressive presentation Raj made at Health2.0. Zume life is now doing a…
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Tracking Mood – The Dream of a Mood Phone
Gary Wolf
January 6, 2009
Two years ago Panasonic released a “mood phone” that supposedly tracked your emotional state by analyzing your voice. A year later Motorola awarded a $10,000 competition prize to a Duke University student whose idea was to create a phone that told you the mood of the person on the other end of the line, so…
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Ryan Grant – TIVO for Life
Gary Wolf
November 19, 2008
Here is a great talk by Ryan Grant from the last QS Show&Tell. Things got especially interesting when Ryan talked started talking about how the device he is making would allow you to capture, in sound, stills, and video, moments of your life that had already passed. Below are a few excerpts from the audio…
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Brandon from A&D Weighing Shows New Devices
Gary Wolf
November 5, 2008
The idea of having one’s devices automatically upload data to a Web site is much hoped for among QS readers. Here’s one take on solving from the problem, presented at the the QS Show&Tell II by Brandon from A&D Weighing, one of the leading manufacturers of medical scales. (Brandon was a good sport in dealing…
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Alex Rossi Shows Tweet What You Eat
Gary Wolf
November 5, 2008
This post makes me happy! One of the most fun things about QS so far has been the sense of optimism and possibility emanating from the frontiers of self-tracking. There is something so obvious about applying basic methods of rational data gathering and analysis to daily life that each little experiment, however simple, hints at…
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Can You Eat Yourself Smarter?
Gary Wolf
October 29, 2008
Here is a great presentation by Tim Lundeen from the recent QS Show&Tell. Tim is running some interesting self-experiments on diet and cognition. QS_081023_03_Tim_Lundeen from Paul Lundahl on Vimeo. Diet and cognition is a topic of such obvious interest that it regularly breaks through into the popular press and the science blogs. For instance, eating…