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  • Amazon Halo review

    Throughout the day, the Halo automatically tracks the intensity and duration of your movement, as well as your sedentary time. Taking these factors into account, it gives you an Activity Score. Informed by recommendations from the American Heart Association, the… Read More ›

  • He must go

    The UK government has done everything right in this pandemic. The problem is that the UK government has done everything late as well. Locking down last March: too late and we allowed massive gatherings to take place. Estimates of up… Read More ›

  • Do we expect too much from fitness products?

    I was reading Shaun’s post about blood oxygenation in the Apple Watch and I was wondering if we simply expect too much? For example, I know that my Fitbit doesn’t count steps accurately – it works fine if I’m marching… Read More ›

  • Ghosts’N DJs

    In a parallel universe where a life is in a 16-bit pixelated form, the music scene has been dominated by fake artists and DJ’s. They rise to fame and become superstars in the media because of two important tools. The… Read More ›

  • The Mysteries Of Time

    Physicists in the university’s Research Laboratory of Electronics have developed an atomic clock that takes advantage of the way atoms behave when they’ve been quantumly entangled. A typical atomic clock works by measuring the vibrations at the atomic level of… Read More ›

  • Is Apple’s Blood Oxygen solution dangerous?

    Initially I found the Blood Oxygen monitor to be a godsend on my Apple Watch at the start of covid, but over time, a short period of time, I found myself relying on it less and less. With a Blood… Read More ›

  • Time to Walk

    Apple Fitness+ subscribers will be able to open the Workout app on an Apple Watch, select Time to Walk, and choose from one of the audio stories to listen to during their walk. The feature will likely extend to wheelchair… Read More ›

  • Hide your Apple TV

    Elago is back with a nostalgic revival project… although this time, it isn’t a cover-case for the AirPods or the Apple Watch. The Elago T4 is a silicone cover that slips around your Apple TV set-top box, transforming it from… Read More ›

  • In 2025 I will still be using the Air

    I wrote about the MacBook Air (2020) M1 recently and because of covid I haven’t spent much time with it. Over the past few days, however, I have been able to use it again and once again I remain surprised… Read More ›

  • Should voters have to pass an IQ test?

    After four years of being told that leave voters knew exactly what they were voting for, you condescending remoaner, I don’t know how to feel about financially capsized leave voters queuing up to tell the media that they did not,… Read More ›