{"id":1049,"date":"2014-07-17T06:19:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2014-07-17T06:19:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:19:17","slug":"guinea-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/17\/guinea-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three weeks, I&#8217;ve been doing a research study with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/products\/fitbit-one\/\" target=\"new\">Fitbit One<\/a>.  It was offered to MS patients as part of some study.<\/p>\n<p>I connected it up, and wore it most of the time, as instructed.  <\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>I dunno.  Since I&#8217;m not terribly active to begin with, I&#8217;m not sure how much my data will help.  Did it help me track things like caloric intake?  Yep.  Did I forget it once in my few public outings?  Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the one day I did forget it going out, was one of the most active days I had in the period.  Naturally, the next few days were full of gluttony, courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrgeeks.com\/\" target=\"new\">HR Geeks<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coganspizza.com\/\" target=\"new\">Cogan&#8217;s Pizza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Final verdict?  Free, fun gadget to play with.  It was something for me to do while I was busy getting <a href=\"http:\/\/its757.com\" target=\"new\">ITS757<\/a> a big better organized.  Finishing weight:   Plus 0.5lbs.  Max weight gain:  Plus 0.5lbs.  Minimum weight:  -2.5lbs.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll hand it over to my wife to play with for awhile, and may use it again if\/when I find myself out in public more often.<\/p>\n<p>As for ITS757, barring one of the Federal jobs I&#8217;ve applied for hitting, this is happening.  The feedback I&#8217;ve gotten from most of the people I&#8217;ve pitched it to has been positive.  As I&#8217;ve thought through things a bit more, I&#8217;ve been able to address some of the weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Now to get the customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three weeks, I&#8217;ve been doing a research study with a Fitbit One. It was offered to MS patients as part of some study. I connected it up, and wore it most of the time, as instructed. Thoughts? I dunno. Since I&#8217;m not terribly active to begin with, I&#8217;m not sure how much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}