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Show HN: Continous Heart Rate for Android Wear and Apple Watch

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Re: Show HN: Continous Heart Rate for Android Wear and Apple Watch

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mintplant wrote: post #4

Great! I've been looking for something like this. Uh, now I just need an Android Wear device...

I have a Moto 360 and like it a lot!

It was recently on sale for $180, and I'm going to guess it'll be on sale again, since the Apple Watch is just starting to ship and new Android watches are expected to be announced around Google IO in late May. https://moto360.motorola.com/

Note: the heart rate monitors on these early devices aren't great! We have to do a lot of work to make sure the sensor works well and the graphs are understandable. But I think the hardware will improve rapidly in the next 6-18 months.

Re: Show HN: Continous Heart Rate for Android Wear and Apple Watch

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stephengillie wrote: post #5

Cool! How soon until you can tap into a calorie app/database (MyFitness?) and start to guesstimate the user's caloric burn rate each minute?

That's a frequent feature request, so hopefully soon--the thing I'm not sure of is whether those things are even close enough to accurate to be worth it. I think "guesstimate" is a great word for it. :)

Re: Show HN: Continous Heart Rate for Android Wear and Apple Watch

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Post by DenisM »

brandonb wrote: post #2

Hey! I'm the OP. Let me know if you have any questions. Just for fun, this was my heart rate while launching this: https://twitter.com/AppCardiogram/status/591377862441046016

Is there any watch on the market that has enough battery to do real continuous HR monitoring? Last I checked, they all only measure continuously in the "sport" mode for an hour or two, and in the "regular" mode they measure HR once every 10 minutes or so.
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