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Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by freehunter on Thursday March 08, 2012 @04:12PM (#3681667)
My grandparents are diabetic, and I've long imagined an implant that could measure blood sugar levels and report it back when they sit down at the computer or pick up a device. NFC is used in subdermal implants today, it could be done. My grandfather has a pacemaker, perhaps it could be a combined function. The problem would be getting blood samples without actually causing damage to vessels, but I am no medical researcher so I don't know all the hurdles.

I agree with you that measuring is the most intensive task of tracking personal statistics. I can enter how many servings I had of what in any fitness tracker website, but what if I had 1.3 servings? What if I had .2 servings (just a taste)? How do you estimate that without measuring it first? And if you're measuring everything on a scale, where has the fun gone in life? What's the difference between medium intensity running vs high or low? If I biked at 15mph it might be medium, but what if I kept that 15mph steady up steep hills? Or what if I kept 15mph down a hill without pedaling? We're built for rough estimates and are amazingly adept at convincing ourselves we're right.

I have enough difficulty with time tracking at work either breaking my productivity or cutting into my limited "me" time, and that's just a petty little thing. I usually end up estimating at the end of the week then fixing discrepancies that always come up.

Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by strudey on Friday March 09, 2012 @07:47AM (#3683847)
Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by kul on Thursday March 08, 2012 @04:49PM (#3681836)
woah, "NFC is used in subdermal implants", is that already being done? I've googled and seen it as something on the agenda, but have no idea if people are already doing it?
Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by freehunter on Thursday March 08, 2012 @08:01PM (#3682446)
Well, if you define RFID as a near-field communication. This could be a matter of debate, I guess. Obviously it's well-known for having your pets "microchipped", but there's also this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)