Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
by nl on Thursday March 08, 2012 @10:59PM
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At 8:16am, you drank 7.8oz of Orange Juice, totalling 108 calories.
It just occurred to me that the new breed of payment services (Square, Google Wallet etc) should combine with food vendors to offer this service.
In Australia at least fast food restaurants publish the calorie count of each food option. It wouldn't be impossible for the payment company to do the correlation.
Also sports (and weigh loss) food vendors should embed NFC chips in their packaging so you can scan them before you consume them. There are plenty of cross-promotion possibilities there...
Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
by Drbble on Friday March 09, 2012 @07:10AM
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Vendors are already tracking all my itemized purchases and sharing with every advertising company in existence, it would be nice if they would share the data with me, too.
It just occurred to me that the new breed of payment services (Square, Google Wallet etc) should combine with food vendors to offer this service.
In Australia at least fast food restaurants publish the calorie count of each food option. It wouldn't be impossible for the payment company to do the correlation.
Also sports (and weigh loss) food vendors should embed NFC chips in their packaging so you can scan them before you consume them. There are plenty of cross-promotion possibilities there...