Gadgetory

well this is Russell from the verge and we're looking at knotch it's a motion tracker like jawbone or Fitbit but this one goes farther tracking different parts of your body independently the idea is that you put sensors like this on your wrist your elbow your torso and then get data from all of them at once so if you want to know how high you can karate kick for instance this will tell you along with momentum and skeleton tracking info the CEO calls it's symbolic muscle memory a way of quantifying specific motion like a cartwheel or a tennis serve this one's just a prototype the Kickstarter launches next month with a bare-bones tracking system but the cool stuff will come when we see what people can build on top of it the company says they've seen interest from martial artists dancers skydivers anyone who wants to track a certain motion so they can study it and recapture it later beyond the obvious physical uses something like this can be used for Gollum style motion capture physical therapy or things we haven't even thought of yet at the moment what it does is just give you a lot of information about how your body is moving at any given time you