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"Jawbone has today released its new UP wristband and mobile apps in the UK, in the hope of taking a slice of the growing fitness technology market.  Competing with products such as the Nike FuelBand, the UP tracks how you move, eat and even sleep using sophisticated sensors, before presenting personalised insights into how to &amp;quot;make smarter choices and feel your best&amp;quot;.  You can link the \u00A399 band to an Android or iOS smartphone using dedicated apps, which then track and store data in the cloud, providing &amp;quot;a narrative of your daily life&amp;quot;. The UP band and apps - the result of over 100 new patents - track and display health and wellbeing data across a variety of areas.  Moving: The UP offers detailed information on activity throughout the day, including &amp;#039;active vs. idle time&amp;#039;, intensity of movement, total steps, distance, and calories burned. The band also vibrates to remind you to move about if you have been inactive for a specified amount of time.  Eating: There is the ability to track diet via the interactive food function, including options to take photos of meals for a visual journal, or scan barcodes on products to search nutritional information. Sleeping: The sleep tracking system uses the UP&amp;#039;s patented MotionX technology to track micro-movements of your wrist and then delivers data on how long it took you to fall asleep, how much light or deep sleep you got, and how many times you woke up in the night. The Smart Alarm wakes you up at the optimal point in your sleep cycle.  The UP also tracks your mood throughout the day, and offers personalised insights into how to improve certain areas of your daily life.       &amp;quot;We are excited to expand the UP community by introducing support for Android, 11 new languages for iOS, and product availability in more than 25 additional countries around the world,&amp;quot; said Travis Bogard, Jawbone vice president of product management and strategy.  &amp;quot;Everyone wants to improve upon themselves; we&amp;#039;ve found this to be a fundamental human desire, no matter where a person is starting from or what they want to achieve.  &amp;quot;Today marks a big step toward our commitment to help people establish a basis for behavior change by bringing UP to everyone who wants to live better lives.&amp;quot; In the UK, the UP band comes in three sizes (small, medium, and large) and three colours (Onyx, Mint Green and Blue). It is available to buy for \u00A399 from Jawbone.com, Apple Stores (including online) and Carphone Warehouse. The companion app is available to download now on iOS and Android platforms, but requires the band to work.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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