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Ask HN: Best wearableS for indoor location, health data, alarms and zapping me?

2 pointsby throwawayadvsecalmost 2 years ago
Hi, I&#x27;m looking to experiment further with positive&#x2F;negative reinforcement, hacking my bad habits and change my behavior, using software(maybe even hook it to some GPT based coach)<p>My first attempt at this was using a Pavlok 2, basically a device that can vibrate, beep, or send you small electric shocks(triggerable with app settings, 3rd party apps or an API). When I was using it completely destroyed my habit of doomscrolling on reddit, imgur etc...it was literally saving me 3 hours a day, I was hooking it up to a custom browser extension I made, it was amazing) it can also help for smoking(it have some primitive motion tracking), sleep schedule, negative reinforcement, time tracking…<p>But IMHO it lacked a bunch of interesting features, and it wasn&#x27;t that far from a PoC IMO.<p>I&#x27;m looking for a wearable &quot;stack”(or just one device, but I really doubt I can find a device that does everything)<p>The features I need would be:<p>-precise indoor location(≈1meter), I need to be able to know from a distant server, whether I&#x27;m located on my bed, in my home-gym, in front of the fridge, on my couch, (I could add desk, but I can detect that with a script on my computer)(putting cameras in every room of the house isn’t a path I’d be keen on taking)<p>-being able to trigger beeping&#x2F;vibrating&#x2F;alarms, and being able to trigger small electric shocks would be nice(from an API), I can use a Pavlok for that but I’d like to limit as much as possible the number of different devices I’m using)<p>-pedometer, heart rate, average speed<p>Optional but nice to have:<p>maybe gps, maybe sleep tracking(Pavlov do track it but it’s not advanced at all)<p>Gyroscope&#x2F;accelerometer access(I think pavlok has it, but it&#x27;s only used in their embedded firmware, and pretty hard to reverse engineer)<p>a smartwatch screen with notifications&#x2F;apps<p>A way to lock the device to my wrist<p>My spontaneous first plan would have to stuck a pavlok to an apple watch while wearing an AirTag necklace, and managing all that with custom software.<p>I could spend 1000$ on this + a good amount of coding&#x2F;reverse engineering.(if you’re looking for a product to build this could be great, a lot of health&#x2F;self-improvement obsessed people might be interested ;))<p>I’d only use apple products as a last resort if I don’t find better options.<p>Do you have better ideas?<p>Thanks !

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