Monitoring and Management Gift Guide
There are plenty of holiday gift lists out there for everyone on your shopping list. And yet who really covers the monitoring aspect that often goes hand in hand with being an entrepreneur whose business is based on tracking things.
December 24, 2013
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FitBit Force. I’ve upgraded my original FitBit clip to the FitBit Force wristband. It tracks steps, flights of stairs, calories burned, sleep, plus it doubles as a silent vibrating alarm clock (and pairs with PC or Mac, iPhone or Android phone). Sadly the Force shows I’m just as sedentary as the previous device showed. Note to self: Stop monitoring and start moving.
Sleep as Android. While the FitBit force can track the duration of your sleep and your restlessness (tracked as you toss about in bed, wondering who will be Microsoft’s new CEO), it doesn’t track sound. This app on my Samsung Note II Android phablet has a sound-activated recorder to get all the noises that happen while I sleep so I don’t miss a thing. Sleep Cycle is the iOS equivalent, and both apps also feature an alarm clock designed to monitor your sleep cycles and wake you at the optimum time to reduce grogginess.
Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter with live streaming HD video. You control this device remotely from your iPad, iPhone or Android device. I don’t own it, but there are plenty of YouTube videos that showcase how cool it is.
Person of Interest, seasons 1 and 2 (and 3 so far). Available on Amazon Instant Video and seasons 1 and 2 available on Blu-ray or regular DVD. “You are being watched…” This series centers on a secret government computer system programmed to collect data from all the cameras, microphones and every other input device that is out there today and then run the data through algorithms that identify threats of terrorist violence and also threats against regular people. Then near-comic book heroes Mr. Finch, Mr. Reese and their associates save one of the regular people each episode.
Person of Interest, seasons 1 and 2 (and 3 so far). Available on Amazon Instant Video and seasons 1 and 2 available on Blu-ray or regular DVD. “You are being watched…” This series centers on a secret government computer system programmed to collect data from all the cameras, microphones and every other input device that is out there today and then run the data through algorithms that identify threats of terrorist violence and also threats against regular people. Then near-comic book heroes Mr. Finch, Mr. Reese and their associates save one of the regular people each episode.
There are plenty of holiday gift suggestion guides out there for everyone on your shopping list. But here's one that focuses on monitoring and management. This is my list of gadgets or things (many of which I own or license) that follow that monitoring theme. (Got any to add? Let me know in the comment section below.)
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