{"id":5284,"date":"2011-05-13T14:37:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T08:41:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-13T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T08:46:00","slug":"quantified-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/quantified-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantified Self Tool Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-trackers use tools like body weight scales to record and examine their lives in numbers. Recent developments in self-tracking technology has encouraged a renaissance of personal science and experimentation; all kinds of personal dimensions can be tracked &#8212; from mood, to sleep, to location, etc. Those pioneers figuring out how to quantify their life are part of the Quantified Self movement, tracked by our sister site, <a href=\"http:\/\/quantifiedself.com\/\">Quantified Self<\/a>. The first Quantified Self Conference will take place in a few weeks and it promises to be a seminal event.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Conference (May 28 and 29,  in Mountain View, CA) is almost sold out, Cool Tools will award one free ticket (valued at $399) as a prize this coming week for the best suggestion of a quantified self-tracking tool. <\/p>\n<p>In particular, we are looking for the best self-tracking hardware (we will still accept reviews of software but you are going to have to really convince us why it&#8217;s better than the copious competition). For inspiration, the following is a list of potential reviews we would be interested in: Ant+ enabled scales or tools, a better calorie counter, a wireless vitals monitor, an improved sleep tracker, an updated energy consumption monitor, productivity tools, etc.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have any self-tracking tools to review but are still interested in winning a ticket to the conference send us a review of a tool you think should qualify you and explain why. <\/p>\n<p>As usual, we are looking for the following in a review: <\/p>\n<p>1) a succinct narrative description of what the tool\/tip\/fix is,<br \/>\n2) how it changed your behavior,<br \/>\n3) why Cool Tools should run it,<br \/>\n4) why it is superior, and<br \/>\n5) why we should believe you.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions will be accepted for one week until Friday, May 20th. Reviews can be submitted through email to <a href=\"mailto:editor@cool-tools.org\">editor@cool-tools.org<\/a> or through <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/submittool.php\">this link<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Oliver Hulland, Editor, Cool Tools<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-trackers use tools like body weight scales to record and examine their lives in numbers. Recent developments in self-tracking technology &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[238],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}