A new little Fitness gadget from Fitbit is a new much talked about device.  So what is it and what does it do?  This new little gadget is a little clips that you attach to your piece of clothing, and it tracks your every movement, and sleep pattern.  It also calculates all the calories you burn during the day and night.  The device will set you back $99, which is really not so bad considering what it does.  It gathers all this information to help you determine how much physical activity you have been doing and how many calories you have burned.  But that’s not all, it also counts all the steps you took during the day, how well you’ve slept (done by internal motion detector).  

There is a little button on the device, and a small LED screen that will display all this information to you, and this will help you determine how high your activity level is.  A little flower on the display grows as your activity level goes up. 

Another really cool part is that the device comes with a base that will plug in to your PC via USB, and is wirelessly connected to your gadget.  It will automatically synchronize all the information stored on it to your computer and then the web, you just have to be with in 10 feet of the base.  The syncing software that comes with the package will take care of all of this for you. 

The web based dashboard is a fairly complete yet simple to use and view your information.  You will be asked to input your age, height, weight, and gender, and by all this information, all of your dashboard output will be calculated.    The dashboard will breakdown all of your activity levels, the highs and lows of your daily routine, as well as the intensity of your workout.  You can log all your nutritional info, all the meals that you had, and based on that Fitbit will calculate how many calories you burned during the day, how much your caloric intake was, and this in turn will give you the idea what your caloric intake should be (depending on your goal, weigh loss, weigh gain).  Inputting your food selection is very easy, because Fitbit has already integrating all the nutritional facts for many food types, even fast foods. 

Sleep paten monitoring is probably the coolest feature.  All you have to do is wear this device during your sleep, and in the morning you can get you snapshot of how well you slept.  Fitbit tracks all your motion and movements that your body makes while you sleep.  It can tell how long it took you to fall asleep, how many times you woke up, and the actual time you were asleep vs. the time you were in bed.  

This is a nifty little device that can be very helpful for many people.  Take a look for yourself at Fitbit.com

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