Sleep
WakeMate – wireless wristband with accompanying iPhone app and website uses an accelerometer to analyze sleep and integrates with iPhone alarm clock app to wake you up when you’re supposedly ready. View charts of your sleep data online. Review in Wired here.
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach – headband with silver layer that picks up electromagnetic brain waves and tracks time spent in various sleep cycles. Integrates with custom bedside alarm clock to wake you up when ready, and display data about sleep habits on LCD screen. Oreilly technical explanation of Zeo headband here.
SleepTracker – wristband device that tracks sleep cycles and wakes you up at an opportune moment.
Relaxation & Wellbeing
Wii Vitality Sensor – accessory for the Nintendo Wii that measures pulse, and presumably show you biofeedback info on screen.
WildDivine – videogame with sensors that measure heart rate and galvanic skin response to guide you through relaxation process.
BrainBall – game where users compete to become more relaxed. Uses EEG sensors to move a ball.
Medical
Airstrip OB – delivers maternity ward patients’ heart rates, contraction patterns, and other health data to doctors’ mobile phones in real time. Data sourced directly from hospital databases.
Exercise & Calorie Burning
FitBit – wireless device with accelerometer that tracks movement, calculates amount of time and energy spent at work, at rest, walking, running, etc, and transfers data to accompanying base station. Users can analyze and see data charts on web site.
BodyBugg – armband caloric expenditure calculator that uses a variety of sensors, including accelerometer, heat flux, galvanic skin response, and skin temperature to calculate calories burned. Downloads data to computer. Technology explained here. See also the BodyMedia FIT.
Yamaha BodiBeat – heart-rate monitor and mp3 player that curates your playlist to suit your exercise level.
MapMyRun – GPS iPhone app that maps distance and times of run. Social-networked to browse other peoples’ runs. Also see RunKeeper.
Nike+ – the famous Nike products, including sneakers and wrist-bads, that measure exercise stats such as pedometer, speed, pulse, and chart and share them online.
WalkingSpree – pedometer that uploads your walking data to website so you can view charts.
FINIS Lap Track – waterproof lap tracker for swimmers that counts laps, calories burned, and time.
Brain Wave EEG Development Platforms
OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator – commercial EEG sensor sold as an extra peripheral for gaming systems. Hacked here.
OpenEEG project – open source designs for both active and passive EEG sensors.
Resources
NYU ITP – Computers for the Rest of You – course taught by DanO focused on tracking daily behavior using physical computing
PersonalInformatics.org – collection of informatics websites and tools
The Quantified Self – links to tools for “knowing your own mind and body”