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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for

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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western

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Digital this is the fitbug orb it is a

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tiny little Fitness Aid that intends to

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remove a lot of the excuses that come along with most of them it's pretty much

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the simplest possible thing that still enables useful functionality so it has a

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3D accelerometer it has low power Bluetooth and it uses a coin battery to

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last for several months at a time so you don't have to put it on your nightstand

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at night to charge it the idea is you should always be able to be wearing it

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in some form or another it has a watch strap which I have obviously demoed

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right here it also has a belt clip which I can demo for you guys right here go

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ahead and throw that on there and finally it has an underwear clip that is

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magnetic that I would be happy to demo for you guys no I'm just kidding I'm not

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going to demo that part but it has an underwear clip this is great for um

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women who don't necessarily have a belt or they want to wear a watch you can strap it to your underpants or your bra

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or something like that so you can always have it on you it's an evolution from

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their last Generation fitbug air which had a display so how is something

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without a display an evolution from something that had one well because it

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has Bluetooth now we have an app yes friends it has an app it also has an

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online component now the app has all the basic functionality so it'll give you

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your total steps aerobic steps it even helps you track things like sleep so it

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can tell you yo dog you're H sleep deprived because you went to bed like in

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the middle of the night and then you woke up like four times and you were tossing and turning it can tell you all

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kinds of great stuff like that and aside from the app they are now launching a

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new little program of customized uh well

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programs so these are I believe they were 12we programs and whether you want

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to burn off that baby fat or you want to

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you know stretch out or get in shape for skiing they give you little webinars as

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well as personalized goals some nutrition tips and such like that and

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the idea is to have it instead of just being uh you know well hey we're fitbug

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so we're credible so you should probably listen to us the idea is that they're going to have um well-renowned trainers

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or celebrities backing them in endorsing them to show you that it's not just um

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them making things up so to speak it's the okay so the kicker guys is that it's

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only 50 bucks so when you compare that to something like actually the next door

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neighbors here that have a much more Advan aned sort of Fitness e type device

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but is of course much more expensive and not necessarily easier to make yourself

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use all the time actually makes it look kind of appealing thank you for checking

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