Thursday, 21 August 2014

Quantified Work: Meet Stir, Desk A former smart iPod Engineer, Health-Tracking and height-adjustable

If you're like me, you spend too much of their day sitting at his desk, hunched over his computer. During busy days - especially once the "zone" standing - it is easy for a couple of hours to fly without leaving a sedentary position. For this reason, I'm probably not the only one who could use a gentle reminder, just a little, "Hey Rip, who has been sitting for two hours, what's up, and lazy?"

Well, my friends, the Fitbit can remind you that you are behind in your footsteps, but what if you could remind her desk stand, or take a break? With Revolver, a person born in Los Angeles startup founded by former Apple employees, Disney and IDEO, now you can buy a smart desktop that will do just that.

Stir Kinetic Desk, the first product launch, which launches today, combines software health monitoring wearables as popular Fitbit and connected up with hardware and machine learning to create a work experience that really promotes movement - and, in so doing, his health.

Founder and CEO of JP Stir Labrosse was one of the first 35 employees to join Apple's iPod division, where he led development teams in two initial engineering projects to iPod. No surprise, then, that the Bureau of Kinetic borrows some designs and interfaces Apple family, including a touch screen function, which has a size of iPod very kind, shape and look to it. It is this touch interface that acts as the main table "control panel" that allows users to change the configuration and height of your desk, or to move from sitting to standing (and vice versa) just by double tapping.


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Not only that, but the screen displays graphics and visual representations of a user's movement, so you can quickly see how long they have been sitting and what their work habits and use looks like. The desktop contains a thermal sensor presence and computer equipped with the software health monitoring, allowing you to track your movement and display the data through its touch screen.

While it may sound almost uncanny, not to worry, the table is not yet equipped with Siri's voice or any kind of personal assistant. While Labrosse was willing to admit that the tourist Stir Kinetic could incorporate some features 9000 HAL-like Watson or on the road, for now, the board intends to work with the Internet of things, not to try to command and master his office.

In fact, the board of control and adapts to your personal routine so that has meant to optimize the health and productivity. The desktop displays how many calories you've burned, time spent standing in front sit - and his answer to "who is the fairest of them all table?" Course.

Labrasse, echoing recent study by Harvard Business Review called sitting "smoking of our generation", which is probably a little over dramatic, but it is true that in our modern working environment overworked, connected to través-, we spent more time in the chairs on our feet. While his desk Kinetic not remind you to eat, shower, end coding and go outside or be a best friend, who will help you stay upright and conscious healthier routine that is right around the corner .

The desktop also contains a setting called "active mode", which can be activated by pressing a button on the front of the table, which will mode "Whisperbreath" - meaning that the table asks you to move after you've been sitting too long in one smooth motion, one inch up and down. Then you can tap twice to change position.

New Smart desktop Stir also comes with integrated ports AC and USB (eight four, respectively), connected to a single power cord plugs into the wall, and comes with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which hopes CEO eventually allow the desktop devices to integrate with third-party health and fitness. Think: Your desk may come your fitness and wellness own graphic. Imagine that. The team also eventually release a control panel web based that lets you see your data and health work on the fly.

Stir Kinetic Desk has a wooden surface, comes in white, espresso and four colors bottom surface, and will be sold at an expected $ 3,890. Not cheap, but hey, you can not put a price on good health, people, especially when it comes to your office furniture that keeps you healthy.

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