army U.S. Military bans GPS-enabled fitness trackers Seamus Bellamy

surveillance Surveillance is the new blooming onion at Outback Steakhouse Thom Dunn

halloween So much great vintage Halloween stuff at my local flea market this month Rusty Blazenhoff

stop children what's that sound Digital hearing aids are producing sound as lousy as MP3s Clive Thompson

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

Gadgets Major U.S. insurance company to sell only health-tracker backed life insurance Rob Beschizza

Fitbit has 150 billion hours of "anonymized" health data Rob Beschizza

picks Integrating the data from my ragtag collection of fitness trackers Jason Weisberger

spinning iPhone and Android compatible heart rate monitor Jason Weisberger

Science New sensor pill like a "Fitbit" you can swallow to monitor your stomach David Pescovitz

picks A DIY Peloton at-home stationary cycling solution for introverts Jason Weisberger

Business Wearing an activity tracker gives insurance companies the data they need to discriminate against people like you Cory Doctorow

Gadgets The kickstarted Pebble smartwatch is now a division of Fitbit, so they may "reduce functionality" on all the watches they ever sold Cory Doctorow

amazon First impressions of Amazon's Echo Dot Jason Weisberger

picks Can losing weight help breast cancer patients survive? Fitbit joins study to find out. Xeni Jardin

Science Emergency room doctors used a patient's FitBit to determine how to save his life Xeni Jardin

quantified self Breakup captured on a fitbit Mark Frauenfelder

quantified self DJ duo Zeds Dead attached heart rate monitors on their fans and analyzed the results Zeds Dead

Woman wears Fitbit during sex, publishes heart rate chart Mark Frauenfelder

standing desks Will a $3000 motorized standing desk make you healthier? Rob Beschizza