• Hosain Rahman Shows Me His UP (TCTV)

    Alexia Tsotsis

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    Monday, November 14th, 2011

    All of the dudes in our office (okay, only Rahul) want one of these UP bracelet things. Apparently they use your wrist movements to determine how healthy you are, and then constantly judge you graphing your healthstyle against your friends’.

    Because I am insatiably curious and extremely health conscious, I swear, I took Jawbone founder Hosain Rahman aside earlier this week and asked him to show me the goods, which to his credit he did.

    Note to non-regular readers: This post is a subtle homage to this other post, which I find well, pretty silly. Sorry if you don’t get it, I’m pretty terrible about conveying context. So sue me.


    Company: Jawbone
    Website: jawbone.com
    Launch Date: 1999
    Funding: $202M

    For more than a decade, Jawbone has developed products and services for the mobile lifestyle unparalleled in their innovation, ease-of-use and sophistication of design. The company is the creator of the award-winning and best-selling premium ICON Bluetooth headset; the inventor of NoiseAssassin® technology, the world’s first and only military-grade noise eliminating technology; JAMBOX, the first intelligent wireless speaker and speakerphone; as well as THOUGHTS, a free mobile service that allows users to utilize their voice in a new way....

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