Nike+ FuelBand

Did anyone go to South By last year? Oh, you guys are missing a great party if you're interested in all this stuff.

Um, so last year at South By, Nike released the FuelBand, right? Who has a FuelBand? All right.

My man is working out over there.

Um, so how are you, how are you doing? Are you, are you winning? Are you-

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Sorry everybody.

Um, but no, so, so for last year at South By, they released the FuelBand, and then there's one really...

Austin is not a tall city, but there's one really big building in the center of the city, and so Jay-Z played.

Gosh.

FuelBand, Jawbone, Misfit Shine.

Do you remember any of these? The Polar heart rate device.

And then more up to date.

Our mission was to build an open source, multidimensional dataset for autism, and we had to say in the cloud back then, with the idea that we would start to pull together all of the kinds of data which we could now access ourselves, thanks to the introduction of wearables and direct-to-consumer testing.

This was when the Nike FuelBand just came out.

I don't know if any of your listeners remember the Nike FuelBand, but also 23andMe, so you could start to get genomics at a relatively reasonable price.

It's much more reasonable now.

But the theory behind those first meetings, and, and I brought together people who became my close friends, the co-founder of 23andMe, um, Martha Herbert from Harvard, who was a open-minded, broad-thinking, uh, neurologist.