The First Hour With a New Fitness Band or Watch

The box is open and the band is on your wrist. You want to start walking, not sit through setup screens. Give that first hour anyway. Almost every number you see for the next year rests on what you enter โ€ฆ

What a Fitness Band Can and Cannot Measure

Someone in your family wears a fitness band. It tells them they slept badly, or that they did not walk enough. Most of us take those numbers at face value. But a band does not measure most of what it โ€ฆ

Let Your Parents' Phone Do the Remembering

As our parents get older, the day fills with little things to remember. Tablets with breakfast, a doctor's appointment, enough water, the BP check. Somebody ends up holding that list in their head. Usually them, and quite often you as โ€ฆ

How a Call Log Can Reveal a Diagnosis

Think about a single morning of phone calls. Not the words in them, only the numbers dialled. That short list can say something you have not told a soul. What do four calls look like from outside? The first call โ€ฆ