[Opening the QS Europe Conference 2013: Gery Wolf (left) and Ernesto Ramirez (right)] The Quantified Self Europe Conference will take place May 10th to May 11th in Amsterdam. This year […]
Tracking your life can mean any form of recording: some body measures like weight, your workout, your food intake, your sleep patterns – this is the “classic” Quantified Self. One […]
In this post, I will make some predictions on the nearer and farther end of the Quantified Self movement. Using McLuhan’s Tetrad, I will argue that Quantified Self will get […]
Many parameters a smartphone accidentially measures are useful in monitoring the environment. We have recently discussed, how air pollution with particulate dust can be monitored with an easy ad on […]
Asthma is one of the most common chronical conditions. For many who are affected, it would be necessary to monitor their lung functions much more frequently than by visiting their […]
iSpex is a plastic contraption that can be clipped on top of a smartphone’s camera. In this simple slit spectrograph light is defracted and polarized by shining through birefringent plastic […]
When photons, the particles of light, hit the chip of a smartphone’s camera, they excite electrons on the chip’s surface and change the conductivity or even generate voltage within the […]
We have been trialing our app explore in the field since the beginning of December together with our partner Serviceplan Group. Employees of the different branches of Serviceplan tested explore […]
Twitter Mitarbeiter Isaac Hepworth visualisierte während einer Twitter Hack Week, wie sich die ca. 50.000 verifizierten Twitter Nutzer untereinander vernetzen. Entstanden ist eine Infografik, die wie eine Staubwolke anmutet: Im Twitter […]