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I preordered the Brilliant Frames. I don't give a poo poo about the ai stuff they're marketing it with, but they're fully open source and their previous product is well documented for developing your own apps. I don't expect that I'll wear them day to day, but as a dev platform they're very exciting to me. I'm going to try to hack up a live subtitles thing, or Pokemon Go HUD, or hand/voice free image capture (maybe by using onboard IMU and tensorflow lite to detect double teeth-click) It's too bad that they only come in one style: "Where's Waldo?".
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Too bad they look so lame (and are $450 USD)
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$350. But yeah, circular frames are quite a choice.
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circular frames can look fantastic. it really depends on proportions, complexion, hair styling, and wardrobe. like these:    vs:    lol beaten on the Roger Stone pic
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webcams for christ posted:circular frames can look fantastic. it really depends on proportions, complexion, hair styling, and wardrobe. So, I shouldn't get these...
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Uthor posted:So, I shouldn't get these... same but you could highlight the other two things as well in my case. Did Brilliant decide to memory-hole their Monocle product already? https://www.brilliantmonocle.com/ just redirects to the glasses now.
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The Frames are an evolution of the monocle. The monocle docs and github are still quite available. I think they're just pushing the frames as the current version. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, there's a "looking for Monocle?" link that takes you to https://brilliant.xyz/products/monocle
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I picked up a Fitbit Blaze back in 2018 and it did basically what I was looking for - HR tracking, sleep tracking, step counting, stopwatch. The included silicon band would cause a rash on my skin, but a replacement leather band fixed that issue. Today it doesn't lasts a full day before the battery is drained and the leather band is coming apart, so I'm trying to figure out if a new tracker is worth the investment or if I'd be better off just replacing the battery & band of my current one (~$40). I was mainly looking at the Garmin vivosmart 5 - the thinner width of the "band" style appeals to me, but I don't know how much tracker technology has improved. Is there an appreciable improvement in heart rate/sleep/step tracking in a newer product?
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Mar 11, 2024 15:59
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Heart rate tracking has improved in the past 6 years, though mostly with new features: modern optical heart rate monitors can measure blood oxygen, heart rate variability, and even do ecocardiograms. The budget "activity trackers" usually don't have those features though. One other thing I'll say about fitbit is that they're owned by Google now, who have a bad habit of abruptly ending support for their side projects.
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My broad comment about any Garmin kit is that it's good but the phone-side app is a bit clunky. You might attribute it to them not having as good access to or experience with phone internals as (say) Google, but for whatever reason it's a bit complicated and fiddly, e.g. figuring out how to change the watchface on your device
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Thanks. I'm going to pick up the vivosmart 5 and see how my skin deals with the silicon band - if it doesn't work out I'll break out my soldering iron and get it dangerously close to a lithium battery pack to get my fitbit working.
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nonathlon posted:My broad comment about any Garmin kit is that it's good but the phone-side app is a bit clunky. You might attribute it to them not having as good access to or experience with phone internals as (say) Google, but for whatever reason it's a bit complicated and fiddly, e.g. figuring out how to change the watchface on your device I agree. I saw articles earlier in the year that a fully refreshed and simplified design app was in the works. It can't come soon enough. To be clear for anyone reading this, the app is perfectly capable and full of all sorts of functions and data. It's just poorly laid out and not intuitive to use, in my experience.
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Yeah I'm more or less a garmin stan and have been using their watches for longer than Smartphones have been around, when you had to plug it into your computer with a USB cable and read the .fit file on a PC. They're a hardware company, with watches / bike computers / "fitness" products making up less than a quarter of their revenue. They have a huge market share in marine and aviation navigation, and even brought in $559 million in automobile navigation in 2022. My wife is in the Garmin ios app beta test, and it's mostly a redesign of the main landing page, with the activity view & newsfeed remaining the same. But to be honest, aside from maybe not being on the cutting edge of design, I've never fully understood the complaints. Like, Strava is great due to segments and KoMs and route discovery, which I guess garmin could maybe implement, but with fewer users than Strava has access to. What's always been most important to me is being able to review my runs and rides, and having a single ecosystem for my resting heartrate, sleep, relative training load, and bodyweight (since I use a Garmin Index wifi scale). It simplifies aggregating long-term trends, which I consider more important to my health and fitness goals than anything day-to-day.
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the Connect redesign is a bit weird but it's still lightyears better than the Fitbit app, that one drove me nuts when I tried out the Pixel Watch 2. My biggest complaint is on my Venu 3, the font size is too big, and steals too much screen real estate - there's only one font size option available, and it's to make it even bigger also if anyone else has had this issue (on version 9.25, and likely earlier), I opened a support case to ask about this because it was also driving me insane, but they confirmed that there's a bug on the Venu 3 - DND mode does not disable the wrist gesture to wake the screen. It's supposed to, as per the manual! So it made a movie the other night really awkward as my watch kept lighting up whenever I moved my arm, I ended up having to power it off the rest of the show. The support guy said it's being escalated internally to be fixed!
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Can anyone recommend a smart watch that will reliably track blood pressure. Not sure if smart watches or rings are the way to go and if it’s even worth the purchase. I’ve read that these things require fda approval so I’m in the USA if that mattersz
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BP watches are pretty new, so I don't know how they compare to traditional cuffs, and there are only a handful out on the US market: Xiaomi Watch H1 Galaxy Watch5 Pro FITVII Watch alternatively, there are blood pressure monitors that integrate with different fitness device / app ecosystems. examples: Garmin Index Blood Pressure Monitor Withings BPM Connect Wi-Fi Smart Blood Pressure Monitor (Apple) Qardio (Google Health) Personally, unless I've been prescribed a blood pressure watch by a doctor, I'd wait until it's been through a few iterations, and go with a smart Blood Pressure Cuff instead
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Looking for some advice on my Garmin vivoactive 4S: I first bought it two years ago, was real happy with it, but I wore it while swimming and it stopped. Supposed to be fine for water but it was totally dead. Fortunately this was only about 3 months after purchase so I got it replaced. The replacement worked fine, I've been swimming with it multiple times ... until last week, when again it went dead after being in the water. Which brings up multiple questions: * Any possibility of reviving it? I've got it drying in a bottle of rice at the moment * Am I expecting too much from a supposedly "waterproof" watch? * What are other people experiences with smartwatches and waterproofing? I don't do a huge amount of watersports and I could just take off the watch but it's supposed to be able to handle this
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I'd expext to be able to swim with it 4x a week for two years minimum. That's really unfortunate. In the euro area manufacturers are required to have a 2 year warranty, and I'd definitely try to get it replaced by Garmin, even if you're in the US
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I'd absolutely expect a Garmin watch that claims 5ATM to be handled a swim. Hit them up for sure, but two years might have you SOL on warranty
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Thanks both. I dried out the watch in rice for a day and it took charging again, and rebooted. But then after a day it suddenly switched off again. I checked and I'm 2.5 years after purchase. I might try Garmin anyway, but it's good to know that my expectations of "waterproof" aren't out of line. A pity because I've really liked this watch
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Anyone use the Echo Frames? I have a few hundred in HRA funds that I have to use by the end of the year or I lose them and Amazon sells a prescription lens option, so as long as I get them fitted with prescription lenses, they are free to me. They seem like they would work decently to listen to podcasts at work privately without earbuds in.
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Three Olives posted:Anyone use the Echo Frames? They came today, having lenses put in them tomorrow. They are perfectly fine frames, you wouldn't notice that they were "smart". Tried it with a couple of podcasts, the sound was perfectly acceptable and when I took them off I couldn't hear the people speaking. Of course, I have hearing loss, so going to test with my husband but I think they will great for listening to podcasts at work without anyone being the wiser. Eh, they were free, the funds were going to expire at the end of the year.
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Just got a Garmin forrunner..,..What's the coolest thing I can do with this thing.
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Nasty Stanky Bitch posted:Just got a Garmin forrunner..,..What's the coolest thing I can do with this thing. run
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The Garmin coach programs are solid if you're looking for structure. Or link it to Strava and find local segments to PR
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Have my Echo Frames back with lenses and have been able to give them more of a try. I like them, the sound isolation is really impressive, you can listen to music at a comfortable level without anyone around you being able to tell, the button can be used to trigger Siri instead of Alexa and most of all, they look completely normal. Would I pay $300 for them? Um, probably not. But for $140 in company reimbursement funds that were about to expire, they are more than solid.
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I mean you could run from bears. That’d be cooler if you survived.
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https://repebble.com/ big news for pebble sickos
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repiv posted:https://repebble.com/ Hell yes, hope I can get a little "3X" badge on the back. 
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repiv posted:https://repebble.com/ that which is dead can never die
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repiv posted:https://repebble.com/ Woohoo! I guess google gave me a free* pixel watch knowing I'd dump them when this happens.
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Time to see if my kickstarted OG pebble steel can still turn on.
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I was disappointed to hear from my wife that the series 3 Apple Watch I bought in only 2021 can not have its OS updated any further, so it’s now incompatible with her continuous glucose monitor. She has diabetes, and the Apple watch makes it very convenient for her to check her blood sugar. It’s basically a medical device, and so we need to replace it. Disappointing a 3 year old device is de facto bricked. Just asking if there’s any guidance on the best bare-bones Apple Watch to buy right now? 99% of use is checking her blood sugar and reading texts; sleep tracking is a plus she’d like to have Thanks for any help
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hobbez posted:I was disappointed to hear from my wife that the series 3 Apple Watch I bought in only 2021 can not have its OS updated any further, so it’s now incompatible with her continuous glucose monitor. She has diabetes, and the Apple watch makes it very convenient for her to check her blood sugar. It’s basically a medical device, and so we need to replace it. Disappointing a 3 year old device is de facto bricked. The Series 3 AW came out in 2017, it's 8 years old now, not 3. Is she using a Dexcom? Garmin has support/app for that, would recommend one of those devices.
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CLAM DOWN posted:The Series 3 AW came out in 2017, it's 8 years old now, not 3. Fair! My mistake for just buying what was on the shelf at Best Buy as a birthday present without doing any research. She is Mac-OS pill’d, I think she’d probably prefer an Apple watch although I definitely think Garmins are sweet
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hobbez posted:Fair! My mistake for just buying what was on the shelf at Best Buy as a birthday present without doing any research. Gotcha, I'm sure the Apple Watch thread can provide better advice but it looks like the current gen cheaper/barebones one now is the AW SE 2 https://www.apple.com/ca/apple-watch-se It supports Watch OS 10 and thus the Dexcom integration.
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https://store.repebble.com/countdown looks like pebble redux is being revealed tomorrow
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