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Fitbit has just released a major update to its iOS app for iPhone 5s, allowing the smartphone itself to track steps, distance and burned calories.

These are basic features, and just a fraction of the metrics provided by one of Fitbit’s own hardware devices, such as the Fitbit handheld or the Fitbit Flex wristband. With a Fitbit Force, for example, you can track all the basic information as well as flights of stairs climbed and sleep. Plus, it acts as a watch feeding you the information on a digital screen.

Still, the accompanying app has always been an integral part of the Fitbit hardware experience, as it offers a dashboard for every metric as well as a log tracking nutritional intake.

In other words, the app gives a robust outlook of overall health over time, which has made Fitbit a big contender in the space against Nike and others.

With the launch of the M7 motion coprocessor in the iPhone 5s, Fitbit has decided to offer “basic” tracking from the phone itself, likely with the intention to entice an upgrade.

The update comes just in time for New Years, as the pudgy masses resolve to lose the holiday weight.

We are in an age of multi-tasking. We talk with friends through video chats while eating lunch on our break, play games on the bus ride home, and listen to music during all of it. We don’t like sitting still, and even through we’re moving as fast as we can, it still doesn’t feel like we’re being efficient enough with our time.

If you want to feel as though you’re killing two birds with one stone, then the Pulse Jump Rope is just the way to do it. This harnesses kinetic energy when you’re playing with it, and turns it into an electrical juice box for your gizmos. If you were wanting to start exercising a bit more, this would be a great way to motivate you out of your chair.

We all dash like mad to an outlet, but if you only had to jump rope for a few minutes to get hours of power, then it would certainly be worth it. Well, if you think $129 is worth something you may or may not enforce into your daily regimen. This would be nice to have around as an emergency backup battery, as it would only take a little effort on your end to get things charged up. If you’re in an emergency situation, it’s likely you’re in a power outage and will be looking for something to do anyhow.

Available for purchase on unchartedplay, found via Dvice
[ The Pulse Jump Rope takes away your energy and gives it to your phone copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

The server racks and computer shelves of CERN might not be the first place you’d expect to find LEGO lurking, but the CERN Computing Centre team was ready with some … Continue reading