I too am frustrated by the current selection of Quantified Self gadgets. My wishlist of features for a step counter: 1. Self-charging. The Misfit Shine gets cl

I too am frustrated by the current selection of Quantified Self gadgets. My wishlist of features for a step counter: 1. Self-charging. The Misfit Shine gets close by using a watch battery that lasts months. 2. Self-syncing. 3. API, of course, so it's easy to automatically do things with the data (like send it to http://beeminder.com http://beeminder.com !). 4. Waterproof, so I don't have to remember to take it off in the shower. Basically I want something I can wear and never have to think about at all. More generally, I think what's missing (extreme bias warning) with Quantified Self is that it needs to evolve toward Programmable Self: http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/01/programmable-self-motivation-hacks-digital-data.html http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/01/programmable-self-motivati... In other words, the point of collecting data about yourself should be to optimize yourself, especially fixing procrastination and other forms of akrasia like eating too much and moving too little. Sometimes just seeing your data is a nudge in that direction but in my opinion (did I mention my extreme bias as a cofounder of Beeminder) it mostly isn't.