Products like the Nike+ FuelBand and Jawbone's Up have helped bring fitness monitoring into the mainstream, and now Basis Science is hoping to up the ante with its own namesake fitness tracker. The $199 Basis band — available for pre-order today — looks like an old-school digital watch, but the exterior houses a number of sophisticated sensors. Most fitness bracelets rely on a three-axis accelerometer, but the Basis builds on that with several additional sets of data. An optical sensor uses reflected light to monitor the heart rate of the wearer, while others monitor perspiration level and both ambient and user temperature. Taken together, the data lets the device track activity, sleep quality, resting heart rate, and an assortment...
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