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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2012-08-10 03:48 pm

Hmm

I washed my Fitbit today.






The Fitbit is a fancy pedometer with the same sort of tech that the Wii uses to measure your motion. I managed to forget to unclip it from my bra before throwing it in the wash today.

It tracks various things--I'd have posted the Steps Taken graph instead except that the Calories Burned graph is more colorful. :D (It also thinks I climbed 4 floors during the time in the washing machine. Toby and I find what it tracks as floors amusing.)

I have high hopes of it surviving - as you can see, it was in contact with the base station and updating through its trip, and as I buried it in dry white rice to sit overnight and dry out, the display flashed at me like normal. Poking about on the intartubes reveals that it's a bit more likely to survive a trip through an high efficiency machine like we have than a normal one. Fingers crossed!
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[identity profile] lady-noremon.livejournal.com 2012-08-11 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I hope it is alright! Though I am amused that it decided you were walking up stairs.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2012-08-12 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It works! Woo! It goes by altitude for stairs, and assumes that 10 ft in altitude equals one flight. So I guess all the foot increments up and down it got in tumbling in the washer tripped it!