1961 and Claude Shannon and Edward Thorp build a small computer to time when balls would land in roulette. People started to get accustomed to carrying around technology.
The era of wearables arguably began in 1953 when the transistor radio showed up and Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka started Sony. And there are stories of calculating the distance armies moved using various mechanisms that used automations based on steps or the spinning of wagon wheels. That prize goes to Abraham-Louis Perrelet of Switzerland in 1780 or possibly back to da Vinci. They didn’t invent the pedometer and in fact wanted to go far further. They had a goal to bring fitness trackers to market.
Fitbit was founded in 2007, originally as Healthy Metrics Research, Inc, by James Park and Eric Friedman.
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