The past year alone has seen the launch of Nike's FuelBand, the ill-fated Jawbone Up and a refreshed line of Fitbit trackers.
Andreessen, who cofounded Netscape Communications, also talked about healthcare and the product of one of his portfolio companies, the Jawbone Up, which he was wearing.
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The idea behind Wandant is similar to that of any number of accelerometer-based activity trackers available on the market from Fitbit, Nike, Striiv, the resurrected Jawbone Up and others.
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Ever since the original Jawbone Up fitness tracker came out, we've been saying it needs an Android app so you can use it with more than just an iDevice.
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This feature also is designed to capture your personal sleep activity, in keeping with trends of growing companies like Fitbit, Jawbone Up and Lark that measure sleep or physical activity.
For example, she hacked a Jawbone Up fitness tracking device by wrapping the bracelet in gold wire to make it look less like a sports accessory and more like jewelry.
The scale is just one part of the larger S Health equation which also includes a Jawbone Up-like monitor (S Band), which was sadly nowhere to be found in the demo pit.
Consumer health is a popular area for startups, with everything from devices such as the Fitbit and Jawbone Up to apps such as Runkeeper that help people keep track of their exercise routines.
For comparison's sake, the Jawbone up is rated for up to 10 days but then again, you have to plug it in every time you want to sync, and the cap covering the charging piece is easy to lose.
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With the zeal of a convert, she has banned glowing screens from her bedroom, drinks ginger juice in lieu of morning coffee, uses a Jawbone Up bracelet to track her sleep and got AOL to install nap rooms for her employees.
The entry of Nike this month (FuelBand), Jawbone (UP) last year will test the market.
It's Fitbug's first device to offer sleep tracking and will monitor your night-time movements like we saw on Jawbone's Up.
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Shown off here at CES 2013, the Flex is a wireless band much in the vein of Nike's Fuelband and Jawbone's rebooted Up.
Self-obsessed citizen scientists who use gadgets like the FitBit and Up by Jawbone to track their own health data and engage in group experiments online have piqued media interest of late.
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Speaking of improving the current Jawbone apps, the company is also opening up its API to developers so that they can use Jawbone stats in their applications, as well as share their own data back with Jawbone.
With its Achilles heel now diagnosed, Jawbone took crucial steps to reinvent Up: the creation of a proprietary standard for testing (which involved a device known as the "Big Shower 2000"), an investment in over 100-plus new patents, a product trial spanning 46 weeks and a revised assembly process.
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At the TED conference this week, Jawbone CEO and cofounder Hosain Rahman unveiled a new product called UP, a handsome-looking flexible bracelet packed with vibration and motion sensors and wireless radio chips.
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Jawbone, best known for its wireless Bluetooth headsets, brought out its UP health band in 2011, a fashion-able bracelet that monitors sleep and daytime activity, with its data uploadable to a smartphone app.
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