Nike and Apple legal defeat underlines fitness trackers' dirty little secret | VentureBeat | Gadgets | by Mark Sullivan
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Madhur Kotharay
Jul 26, 2015, 4:49:44 PM7/26/15
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Madhur Kotharay
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P. Venkatraman
Jul 28, 2015, 2:36:31 AM7/28/15
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Madhur,
This is typical US consumer law at work. A country where it is necessary to mention that the coffee could be hot.
The personal wearables HAVE to necessarily work on approximations. Where the measurements are not possible with a certain degree of precision the wearables try to bring some measure of approximation and thus influence human behaviour in healthier directions.
To expect a degree of precision that is not possible in nature is calling for what cannot be achieved.
Take a simple case of trying to measure the calorie consumption in running one KM
- How much do you weigh?
- What is the weather and humidty?
- What is the gradient?
- What is the pace for which you are trained? How much fat / glycogen in the fuel mix?
- Which direction is the wind blowing?
And so on...each one of these variables will have a measure on the calorie consumed.
How can a personal wearable device measure this without some assumptions and some approximations?
Can I sue Garmin for giving me a wrong calorie consumption figure for each km run?
Venkat
The personal wearables HAVE to necessarily work on approximations. Where the measurements are not possible with a certain degree of precision the wearables try to bring some measure of approximation and thus influence human behaviour in healthier directions.
To expect a degree of precision that is not possible in nature is calling for what cannot be achieved.
Take a simple case of trying to measure the calorie consumption in running one KM
- How much do you weigh?
- What is the weather and humidty?
- What is the gradient?
- What is the pace for which you are trained? How much fat / glycogen in the fuel mix?
- Which direction is the wind blowing?
And so on...each one of these variables will have a measure on the calorie consumed.
How can a personal wearable device measure this without some assumptions and some approximations?
Can I sue Garmin for giving me a wrong calorie consumption figure for each km run?
Venkat
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