Jawbone Tries a New Strategy to Make Fitness Trackers Actually Useful

Japanese watchmaker Yamasa Tokei had a cool idea: a small wearable device that uses the natural motions of your body to keep track of how many steps you take. Tokei called his device the Manpo-Kei, roughly translated as “10,000-step meter.” That was almost fifty years ago. The problem is that, since then, the pitch for fitness trackers has barely changed.

An interesting read via WIRED