I’ve never been known to buy one of anything. In fact I’m somewhat obsessive when it comes to research on new toys. My closet is full of stuff I have bought and tested that didn’t quite measure up to something else. Here’s a great example, and this is the perfect example for this blog post:
NIKE FUEL BAND

Nike+Fuelband
This thing was a Piece ‘O Shit extraordinaire.
In fact this was like the 4th one I had on a single purchase. The other 3 broke and Nike replaced them and the one in the picture is New Old Stock. I never wore it because………I knew it would break.
They came out in 2012 and already by 2018 Nike has discontinued support and service for the device on their Nike Connect service. It is now a functioning piece of hardware that is worthless.
If you have one and it still works……….you can’t do anything with the data. So from cradle to grave the mighty Nike + Fuelband lasted 6 years and was an expensive fitness watch at the time of its release ($150). To my knowledge it doesn’t export its data to any 3rd party service either. It was proprietary.
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