On: Ask HN: Good Fitness Band?

[bscphil]

I'd love to hear if anyone has suggestions with an additional feature:

- No internet access / sign up / data syncing to the cloud is required (ideally it wouldn't exist at all). The ideal would be connecting the device directly to a computer via USB or bluetooth and pulling the data / logs off of it directly.

Combined with open data access / reverse engineering this would be very powerful. Basically I want a band where it is impossible for anyone besides me to get access to my data (without physically stealing the band or hacking my computer).

[nextos → bscphil]

Polar and Suunto were like this in the 90s and 00s.

And they offered fancy features for the time such as VO2max or EPOC.

I wonder if any of their models still work well without apps?

Something to look at is https://github.com/jimmykane/quantified-self