Apple stores now sell Spire Health Tags for holistic self quantification
Apple retail channels this week started sales of Spire Health Tags, small, machine-washable devices with a long battery life that sticks to a user's clothes to monitor heart rate and track steps, breathing, stress levels and sleep patterns.
Spire, a company focused on the development and sale of health tracking devices, claims its Health Tags are the easiest way to monitor and manage sleep, stress and activity.
The small, gray devices are thin enough to fit on the inside of most clothing items, including bras, underwear, pants and pajamas. An optical sensor embedded on one side of each Health Tag makes contact with a user's skin to monitor heart rate, while motion sensors within track a variety of metrics.
An accompanying iOS app ingests and translates raw data from the tracker to inform users of daily activity and stress levels, sleep quality, breathing and more. Notably, the hardware/software combo identifies moments of tension by tracking breath patterns. Users are informed of heightened stress levels and presented with tension-reducing breathing exercises.
"Continuous health data will revolutionize health and wellness globally, but early incarnations have been hampered by poor user experiences and a focus on the hardware over the outcomes that the hardware can create," Spire founder Jonathan Palley told TechCrunch. "By making the device disappear', we believe Health Tag is the first product to unlock the potential."
Unlike other health trackers, Apple Watch included, Spire's product is designed to be unobtrusive. The company claims users will not feel the tags during everyday use, a necessary feature as they are designed as a semi-permanent solution.
Tags are applied to clothes via an adhesive that sets over time, meaning they effectively become part of a host garment. The tags are hypoallergenic, washer and dryer safe, and include a battery that lasts a year and half.
Health Tags build on Spire's first product, the Stone, which launched in 2015 with the promise of tracking stress levels by measuring breathing patterns and activity.
Apple is selling Health Tags in packs of three, six or eight for $130, $230 and $300, respectively. Spire also sells the tags directly through its website, with a single tracker going for $50 and packs of three and eight sold at the same prices offered by Apple. Spire is currently running a promotion, however, that takes $100 off an eight-pack, or $30 off a three-pack, when purchased with a $10 per month Spire+ membership. The membership includes free replacement Health Tags when batteries run out, 50 percent off additional Health Tags at $25 each and personalized health reports.
Spire, a company focused on the development and sale of health tracking devices, claims its Health Tags are the easiest way to monitor and manage sleep, stress and activity.
The small, gray devices are thin enough to fit on the inside of most clothing items, including bras, underwear, pants and pajamas. An optical sensor embedded on one side of each Health Tag makes contact with a user's skin to monitor heart rate, while motion sensors within track a variety of metrics.
An accompanying iOS app ingests and translates raw data from the tracker to inform users of daily activity and stress levels, sleep quality, breathing and more. Notably, the hardware/software combo identifies moments of tension by tracking breath patterns. Users are informed of heightened stress levels and presented with tension-reducing breathing exercises.
"Continuous health data will revolutionize health and wellness globally, but early incarnations have been hampered by poor user experiences and a focus on the hardware over the outcomes that the hardware can create," Spire founder Jonathan Palley told TechCrunch. "By making the device disappear', we believe Health Tag is the first product to unlock the potential."
Unlike other health trackers, Apple Watch included, Spire's product is designed to be unobtrusive. The company claims users will not feel the tags during everyday use, a necessary feature as they are designed as a semi-permanent solution.
Tags are applied to clothes via an adhesive that sets over time, meaning they effectively become part of a host garment. The tags are hypoallergenic, washer and dryer safe, and include a battery that lasts a year and half.
Health Tags build on Spire's first product, the Stone, which launched in 2015 with the promise of tracking stress levels by measuring breathing patterns and activity.
Apple is selling Health Tags in packs of three, six or eight for $130, $230 and $300, respectively. Spire also sells the tags directly through its website, with a single tracker going for $50 and packs of three and eight sold at the same prices offered by Apple. Spire is currently running a promotion, however, that takes $100 off an eight-pack, or $30 off a three-pack, when purchased with a $10 per month Spire+ membership. The membership includes free replacement Health Tags when batteries run out, 50 percent off additional Health Tags at $25 each and personalized health reports.
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For something this big, Apple Australia should not have been allowed to run something that was clearly a scam (cured a brain tumour through healthy eating?? SERIOUSLY??) without clearance from the mother ship.
The fact she fooled a lot of people is no excuse. Through Apple’s Health Division, Apple Australia has access to enough medical staff to fill a large hospital. A phone call? An email?
But then when it became CLEAR that they’d been had, Team Australia buried their heads and hoped it would be okay.
Someone needs to have a really close at the team involved in this sh*tshow. I know that the senior management team cannot watch every aspect of the company, but I’m surprised no one saw this promotion and thought, “Wwwaaaaaaiiit a minute.”
You know what I suspect part of the problem is?
A desire to believe that this is possible. Perhaps a desire to believe that the founder may have been right: that it is possible to treat yourself for cancer.
A person with lung cancer has a much better chance of survival if he stops smoking.
"In late April 2015, Gibson gave an interview to The Australian Women's Weekly, in which she admitted to having fabricated all her cancer claims. Gibson attributed her lying to her childhood upbringing"
Not only did she never have cancer, she raised over $300k for "charity" through the app and kept it for herself.
"in March 2015, the parents of a young child suffering from brain cancer, whom Gibson had befriended, came forward to report that they had been unaware that Gibson had earlier been claiming to be fundraising for their child's treatment on their behalf. The family stated they had not known about Gibson's claim to be charity fundraising on behalf of the child, and the family had never received any funds from her or The Whole Pantry. The family suspected Gibson had been using information gleaned from the family's experiences to underpin her own claims to having brain cancer."
That's just scratching the surface:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gibson
Increasing my chances of survival = wearing a seatbelt.
Surviving = not driving my car off the cliff.
What cures cancer is surgery and/or huge wodges of poisonous chemicals and/or radiation.
Healthy eating and exercise will not cure cancer. Impact is not the same as cure. If you stop smoking then it will impact your lung cancer (possibly), but it won’t cure it, unless you can point to reliable evidence to prove otherwise. This ‘impact’ rubbish you’ve added in is irrelevant to the conversation because the woman claimed her cancer was cured, and Apple Australia should have asked a doctor to see if this was possible without medical treatment.
If she claimed that what she’d done had impacted her cancer then that would be different (though she should still have to prove it).