Pebble “Health” Watch

I think a product I’d really like to see in the future is a health / fitness oriented pebble. Essentially every smart watch on the market does whatever they want with your data and you have little to no say over that. For health and fitness data that gives me a bad icky feeling.

I think pebble is in a good position to offer a sensor packed product that can allow you to monitor your health and fitness without fear of data harvesting. A suite of more advanced o2, EKG, temperature, step counting, blood pressure or respiratory sensors (Or any combination of them, or ones I didn’t mention) would be awesome.

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I’m currently working on an idea for the PT2.

The first test build is already complete.

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This is awesome! And this is kinda what I think would be great about it, the team doesn’t even need to make all of these dashboards or algorithms digest the data. They just need to give us more sensors to work with and the community can fill out of the software needs for it!

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Yes, more health sensors would be awesome but I suppose they are not planned because Pebble recommends other vendors like Garmin for healthy watches.

First try: GitHub - atomlabor/Atom-Runner-Pro: Atom Runner Pro | a small runner and walk app for your pebble

I own a Garmin Venu 2 Plus. Is it a wonderful watch? Yes! It is masterfully engineered. And all those specs! Everything you mentioned is there. But all this is vying for your attention. And there’s no end to all those ‘perfect’ watch faces in the Garmin Connect app. After wearing it for two years I find that I don’t really care about those specs that actually want to tell me how I should feel at any moment: stress levels, heart rate, body battery, oxygen level, sleep score, you name it. Can make you stressful.

What’s the point?

It’s like the same old song all over again only presented in a different way. “I want to be as…”.

I DON’T. I want to be “ME”. I’m not perfect and I know my new Pebble Round isn’t going to be. And I like that feeling :wink:

More sensors, more frequent battery charges. It’s always a trade-off. I assume there’s enough choice in the market for people to hit their happy spot.