Health Tech + Food Nerd Blog

I've been a big nerd about tracking my fitness routines for awhile now, but I have to admit that when we got started working on Nudge, sleep tracking was totally new to me. It didn't take long until I was hooked. We all have our obvious reasons to avoid sleep issues - joining the ranks of the walking dead isn't ideal, and neither is being prickly as all get-out during the course of a workday - but there's also research suggesting there are plenty more serious reasons to pay close attention to your nightly rest...

It's no secret, nutrition tracking systems are generally tedious and frustrating. With each calorie consumed users are forced to manually search through glorified databases and guess at whether the item on the page is really THAT similar to what was eaten. For example, simply typing "banana" into a calorie tracker yields dozens of results ranging from bananas of various sizes all the way to "banana pudding." Now envision having to perform this task after every meal … daunting, right? Well, what if that was no longer the case?

It's no secret, wearables are exploding onto the scene in full force and we at Nudge couldn't be more excited about the prospect of adding some of these new devices to our integration portfolio. Over the past month the world has been introduced to over a dozen new devices promising state-of-the-art tracking experiences going beyond the traditional step and active-minute count generally found in the current market. Whether you are a quantified junky, or just some someone interested in a new health tracker we thought it would be appropriate to highlight some of the devices we are the most excited about.