Spring just gone I won a draw at a trade show, the prize was a Fitbit Flex, my wife having lost over six dtone by the simple expedient of eating less and doing more had got into cycling in a biģ way was given the device.
Whats a Fitbit you say. It is a sliver of plastic no bigger that a large ruuner bean seed, which fits in a rubber bracelet. It measures your physical activity and radios it via your computer or smartphone to your account on a website.
This Christmas her closest friend bought my wife the latest model, so after a bit of "computer work" on my "new" technical hand me down, I'm about to embark on my first fully measured long distance dog walk!
I've heen using a smartphone application called Endomondo for several years now, which uses the phones GPS features to track my route and speed, so am interested to see what else the Fitbit gives me.
All this from a phone the size of a packet of cheroots and a sliver of plastic in a bracelet. My first work computer lived in a room the size of my house and was the size of all my furniture stacked into rows of several heights.
