{"id":1253,"date":"2016-01-04T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2016-01-04T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T13:34:02","slug":"friend-on-a-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/friend-on-a-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend on a hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is my submission for the Bug<\/a> writing competition in original Croatian, and in my best attempt to translate to English (fixes are welcome). However, they must have thought I was joking or something, and they didn’t even take a look at it. Anyways, here’s a story with my 1+ year experience with my Fitbit:<\/p>\n

English version:<\/p>\n

We formed our friendship just before you wrote the article “Me in numbers” in your Bug magazine. That made me happy because you assured me that I’m a successful trend followed, like any real gadget enthusiast.<\/p>\n

I wear it on my wrist, and it doesn’t bother me any second of my 8-hour work on my other Friend – Computer, but we won’t talk about him now because after all this isn’t his 5 minutes of fame.<\/p>\n

First of all, I wouldn’t want to label him as a mere piece of hardware, because, in a very short period that I own him, he became my Friend Hardware.<\/p>\n

Not only does he count the number of steps I make in a day, but he also counts my total sleeping time. His friend Application (which, btw, works great on any worthwhile mobile phone or browser) shows me which period of time I was restless during the sleep, and with this, I can see the quality of my sleep and the time it took me to fall to sleep.<\/p>\n

It also allows me to enter the data about the food that I eat, the amount of water that I drink, and my current desired weight. Based on my activity, it calculates how many calories I spend, and how much more would I have to burn to stay in the fitness beast mode – bye bye personal trainers.<\/p>\n

Hardware vibration mode wakes me up in the morning at the time allocated in the Application, so that I don’t wake up my child and wife early in the morning at 5 AM when I go for a run before work. Hardware sends me weekly accomplishments via the Application and it shows me how I stack up against my other “living” friends.<\/p>\n

My FitBit Flex <3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Original Croatian version:<\/p>\n

Mi smo oformili na\u0161e prijateljstvo taman prije nego \u0161to ste Vi u Bugu imali temu “Ja u brojkama”. To me razveselilo jer ste mi time potvrdili da uspje\u0161no pratim trendove kao svaki pravi gadget entuzijast.<\/p>\n

Nosim ga oko svog zape\u0161\u0107a i ne smeta mi ni trenutka u mojih 8 sati rada za mojim drugim prijateljem Ra\u010dunalom, ali sada ne\u0107emo o njemu jer je to ipak njegovih 5 minuta.<\/p>\n

Prije svega, ne bih htio da se njega oslovljava samo kao neki obi\u010dni hardware, jer je on u kratkom roku \u0161to ga imam postao moj prijatelj Hardver.<\/p>\n

Ne samo \u0161to mi mjeri broj koraka koje napravim u danu, ve\u0107 mi mjeri i ukupno vrijeme spavanja. Njegova prijateljica Applikacija (koja, usput budi re\u010deno, radi na svakom iole spomena vrijednom mobitelu ili browseru) mi omogu\u0107uje uvid u period kad sam bio nemiran tokom sna, te time mogu vidjeti kvalitetu sna i vrijeme koje mi je bilo potrebno da zaspim.<\/p>\n

Tako\u0111er mi omogu\u0107uje da unesem podatke o hrani koju jedem, koli\u010dini vode koju popijem, te svojoj trenutnoj i \u017eeljenoj te\u017eini. Ovisno o mojoj aktivnosti ra\u010duna koliko kalorija potro\u0161im, te koliko bi jo\u0161 morao da ostanem u fitness beast modu – bye bye osobni treneri.<\/p>\n

Hardver me ujutro budi laganim vibriranjem u vrijeme zadano u Aplikaciji, tako da ne probudim svoje dijete i \u017eenu ujutro u 5 sati kad idem tr\u010dati prije posla. Hardver mi preko Aplikacije tjedno \u0161alje email sa pregledom postignu\u0107a za pro\u0161li tjedan a i prikazuje mi koliko sam dobar u odnosu na druge “\u017eive” prijatelje.<\/p>\n

Moj FitBit Flex <3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, btw, the strap broke after more than a year of non-stop usage (showers included), but I bought a cheap replacement on eBay and it’s holding up just fine…<\/p>\n

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#Friend<\/a> on a #hand<\/a> #fitbit<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/QiGaU2I4q3<\/a><\/p>\n

— Nikola Bre\u017enjak (@HitmanHR) January 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n