| Well the basis watch is pretty good in the passive recording department. It automatically tracks your sleep and activity levels with many sensors and can give you a pretty good estimate of your daily calorie burn. You never have to press any buttons to track sleep like with the fitbit, making it purely passive. It's also in a watch form factor, preventing the device loss you can get from the fitbit form factor. Basis although is lagging in the software department. Their mobile apps are not very useful and their API is not open so people can't grab their data without doing unofficial hacks that accesses the web apps json data directly. I think although people are going to be using something like the iPhone 5S's M7 motion tracker more than something like a fitbit, because they carry their phones everywhere and don't have to buy or manage a separate device. This would be the best current combo if basis opened it's data silo: 1. A basis watch for sleep and general activity. 2. A wifi weight scale for weight & easy to measure BF% 3. Runkeeper, etc to track your cardio activities. Basis & fitbit doesn't track actual fitness activities (like biking or hiking) too well compared to runkeeper. 4. Also lets you manually input personal measurements such as your navel, hips, waist, etc from the mobile app. Fitbit does not do this. All of these items in one cloud-managed website & mobile app will be pretty powerful. The closest you have for this is fitbit right now. In the future, a credit card / payment system that automatically tracks nutrition purchasing info will be very powerful. This needs to be combined with more nutrition estimates in restaurants although. Passive 24/7 location tracking can also help co-relate events. It can track the effects of vacations, ski trips, trips to the pool, more grocery shopping less restaurants, etc to put more meaning into your graphs. It can co-relate you going to the gym frequently or not going to burger king anymore with you losing weight. I think just awareness that your slowly gaining weight can help snip weight gain trends in the bud, along with warnings your eating a lot of high calorie crap that you might not be aware just how high calorie it actually is. |