If you are a sportman and you train seriously, you also have to monitor your training activities, health condition and performance.
In this field you can choose one of the leading devices and wristwatches made by:
These devices allow you to store data concerning the performance and conditions achieved in your sport activities. The data can then be downloaded in the computer and analyzed. Nowadays, the information that can be obtained are quite amazing.
The information include:
- GPS coordinates
- hearth rate
- distance
- altitude
- barometric pressure
- and many others
It is not by accident that all these innovations come from Finland. A country that spends heavily in research and at the same time has an exemplary welfare state. If you want to know more on how this can happen, see The Information Society and the Welfare State by Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen.