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24-hour fitness tracking and habit based coaching on your wrist does it work I'm Scott Stein and I'm wearing the basis peak basis which is an Intel company now has made sport tracking fitness bands for a couple of years now the base is b1 and the basis carbon steel were ones that had 24 hour heart rate monitoring and an ability to teach you habits so it was kind of like achievement base coaching over time if you play video games and have gotten Xbox achievements or maybe you've tried Nike FuelBand and tried to hit those little milestones well that's a lot what habits are on basis but they've rebooted their watch completely with the basis peak there's a newly designed a hot piece of hardware and it is waterproof down to 5 ATM as four days of battery life the screen is much easier to read more like a pebble steel or pebble watch if you see in that bright LCD good in broad daylight plus it as a backlight what does it do it tracks your heart rate all the time and it also tracks steps it has an automatic way of sensing when you move with a technology called body IQ and it tells you your sleep habits including REM sleep within an app for iOS and Android and it syncs wirelessly via bluetooth with your phone if you had a previous basis band it didn't yet to plug it into your PC now that's fine what it does best is be automatic it tracks my steps automatically it shows my heart rate all the time what does it do to help me on the fly not quite as much in the future the basis peak will be able to give you coaching tips here and also send messages to your watch that doesn't happen yet right now it's about hitting those achievements maybe waking up at the same time maybe getting a certain number of steps or getting active exercise once in a while but heart rate is such a variable term it tells you resting heart rate but the rest of it is a bit mysterious and a lot of products are on the market now or soon that are going to use continuous heart rate tracking there's a new jawbone there's going to be Fitbit and there's also the Microsoft band and they're going to be more to come so the basis peak doesn't hook into as many things as you'd like or that I would like it's okay it's just not great and I feel like it's competition is going to get hot and heavy you necessarily need to buy into basis as philosophy for long I'm Scott Stein and this is the basis peak two hundred dollars available now