Body Media: Health. Care. Anywhere.

This company has been on my most watched list for sometime, they are truly the leader in fitness technology to be applied in many different medians.

Health. Care. Anywhere.
BodyMedia is one of the world’s leaders in wearable body monitoring products and technologies. We’ve developed an accurate and convenient way to track the health and behaviors of people outside of a clinical setting, in the context of their everyday lives.
Our weight management, tele-medicine and research applications are a proven, innovative and affordable means for monitoring physiological and lifestyle information, such as energy expenditure, caloric intake, sleep, and adherence to clinical and fitness programs.

BodyMedia is developing state-of-the-art monitoring products in conjunction with some of the world’s top healthcare, fitness, and consumer products companies in disease management, club-based fitness, wellness, and more.

Thinking on their feet (really)

This seems like a great idea, if they can get it down to just a watch and not a phone, gps receiver and ECG sensor.

The Alive Exercise Monitoring System provides real time remote monitoring of exercise performance for medical, sports and fitness applications.
The system, which was developed by Alive Technologies, uses the Alive Bluetooth Heart Monitor, a Bluetooth GPS and Bluetooth mobile phone worn by each runner.
The mobile phone transmits all the data to a web server via GPRS over the mobile phone network
The website shows the subject's position on a map in real time, with graphs of their ECG, heart rate, speed and altitude.

The start of it all....

For as long as I can remember I have been participating in sports, it was not until I started to work at AGENCY.COM the web leader during the .com heyday. It was so technology focused that I learned how to think about innovative technology, you can have a great idea but you need to understand how it is put together. After the crash of the .com I moved to a company called Impact Unlimited, they are exhibit company that had me doing interactive solutions.

Along with all this behind me I met some really smart and bright people, Jay Jacobs the creator of "My Pet Fat", I think that its pretty inspirational, Ying Ying Wong, what a great designer and innovative thinker, Jason Hartman (Teknikos) programmer and DB Media, another great interactive company that is on the rise, Michael McEntee President of Impact Health the leading, national provider of event-based biometric health screening and education programs and JerryO a bald head to bounce ideas off.

That brings me to today, I am working on a concept that is going to change the way that we as people work out, but more on that later. This blog is about all the cool technology that is useful to the main stream public, things that we can buy and use right off the shelf, and the occasional cool technology that is coming but not yet fully in production. So enjoy and please share with all.