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August 3, 2011GravityEight partners with MedHelp
GravityEight, a web-based platform for personalized wellbeing, announced this week a partnership with MedHelp to lead its online health channel. MedHelp will provide tools and applications for GravityEight’s health channel, which has already used the open APIs of wireless sensors like Nike Plus, the Withings Body Scale, and the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach to integrate their user data.
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August 2, 2011GravityEight wants to measure your entire life
Ever wanted a dashboard for your life? GravityEight wants to become the “Mint.com of your entire life” by tracking everything from your health to your community contribution and displaying the results in a wellbeing wheel.
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June 9, 2011Measuring Personal Analytics With GravityEight
With the great advancements in technology and personal computing devices, it is now easier than ever to measure aspects of the human body that were never able to be quantified before. This proliferation of devices has created multiple data streams, making it very difficult to get a snapshot of how we as individuals are doing overall. That’s where GravityEight comes in.
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May 30, 2011Data enthusiasts promote use of technology to quantify self
Every night, David Wamsley places a strap on his forehead that records the duration and quality of his sleep. In the morning, he steps on a digital scale that monitors his weight. When he goes for a run, he brings along another device that spits out data such as distance traveled and calories burned. When Wamsley heads to work, he clips on a step counter that reveals how far he walks during the day.
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February 17, 2011GravityEight: A New Online Hub for Wellbeing and the “Quantified Self”
At 44, I’m starting to understand what’s meant by the old saying that aging is a battle against gravity. But it’s not just tummies, wrinkles, and joints that need more attention as we get older. Holistic health experts say it’s equally important to invest in social connections, lifelong learning, personal finances, spirituality, and other parts of our lives. Today GravityEight, a new startup in Marin County, CA, turned on the beta version of a website designed to help users make measurable progress across a range of these life priorities—eight of them, in fact.
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