4 ways to upload your vitals to the body cloud

Withings and nikerun are two examples of ‘smart devices’. I first heard about them through French entrepreneur and blogger Loic Lemeur, and now he's trying out a third one: Zeo Personal Sleep Coach.

Withings

Withings is the ‘first WiFi scale linked to the internet that automatically registers weight, fat and bmi calculation.’ I remember that cartoon cat Garfield once had scales that talked back to him, but in this case the scales actually publish your weight on your Twitter and/or Facebook account. Loic Lemeur currently weighs 100 kg of which 18.7 kg is body fat. Here's the graph:

NikeRun

Nike+iPod is a device bundle that consists of a small accelerometer that you can to clip on to your running shoe. It communicates with the Nike+ Sportband, a receiver plugged into an iPod nano, or directly with a second or third generation iPod Touch, iPhone 3gs or iPhone 4. If you use the iPod or the iPhone 3gs, iTunes software can be used to view the history of a particular walk or run. This history can be interesting if you want to ‘race’ against other runners – even if these people are doing their run at a different time, in a different time zone or even on the other side of the planet.

Zeo

Zeo is "designed to help you analyze your sleep and improve it, so you can be your best every day. It’s composed of a lightweight wireless headband, a bedside display, a set of online analytical tools, and an email-based personalized coaching program." Here's what it looks like when Loic Lemeur puts it on:

Meal Snap

And finally, there's iPhone app Meal Snap, which "lets you take pictures of the meal you eat, and then magically tells you what food was in your meal. Oh yeah, we tell you how many calories you ate too. Food tracking has never been easier." I think this is the app Cain R is still missing to reach his weight loss goal. He already takes pictures of almost everything he eats but is clearly oblivious of the amount of calories:

Mobile devices can now be used for selftracking, automatically monitoring and logging your weight, calorie intake, heart rate, treatments, sleep patterns, etc., as well as the conditions and symptoms relating to (for example) depression, infections or high cholesterol.
EnterprisemobileToday.com’s Mobile Download Guide to Best Health has a comprehensive list of iPhone apps that can ‘help folks monitor their nutrition; follow daily activity, exercise and weight loss regimes; calculate and track various biological factors; diagnose illness; monitor disease; know what to do in an emergency; etc.’

Loic Lemeur sees all this as "one more step to opening his body API" and hints that "iToilet, iSex and iFood are next into the body cloud".

What about you? How far would you go to get a better grip on your physical health?