• Wearable Technology

    Increase Sleep Sensitivity for Fitbit

    I’m not usually a very restless sleeper. Therefore, my Fitbit doesn’t pick up on much that happens with me throughout the night. However, I’ve managed to make it pick up on more by increasing the sleep sensitivity. To do so, open the Fitbit web portal, click on the Cog Wheel icon and then click on the device you’d like to configure. Click on the device if it doesn’t automatically take you to that devices page and then scroll down until you see the Sleep Tracking option. Change that setting to Sensitive and then click  on another option to commit the setting change. While at this screen, you can also disable…

  • Wearable Technology

    FitBit Flex vs FitBit One: Ten Reasons the One Wins

    I loved my FitBit Flex. I thought it was the best thing ever. It tracked how much I walked, was a silent alarm to wake me up, tracked my sleep patterns, estimated the number of calories I burned and gave my daughter something to do while bored standing beside me (who doesn’t love to tap on things to make LEDs light up). Then one day, I got an alert on my phone that there was a firmware update for the Flex. I tapped to update, watched it start and then poof, the FitBit went into a Cylon state where the LEDs just flashed from side to side until the battery…

  • iPhone,  Travel,  Wearable Technology

    10 Advances In Wearable Technology Available Today

    First came food, shelter and clothing. Then came technology, innovating all three for thousands of years. But innovation in clothing stalled at some point. Once upon a time man make thicker clothing out of animals with thicker hides, better shoes and then armor. These helped to expand where we could go, when we could go there and how safe we were once we got there. But mankind has long sought using technology that is worn to make life better, from false teeth to eyeglasses. Moving into the somewhat more modern era, let’s look at 10 advances that, while more recent than throwing the hide of an animal that might have…

  • iPhone,  Wearable Technology

    Set Silent Alarms On Fitbit Flex

    The Fitbit Flex can act as an alarm. When acting as an alarm, the Flex will vibrate at the time you set it to do so. The Flex supports up to 8 concurrent alarms, although the more alarms you run the more the alarm function drains the battery of the Flex. To set an alarm, log into the Fitbit portal and go to http://www.fitbit.com/settings/alarms. Once there, click on the Add Alarm button. From the Set an alarm screen, enter a time and then whether the event should repeat (which brings up a menu of checkboxes for each day of the week). If repeating, check the appropriate box for each day. Click…