I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Also, I’m pretty sure Voldemort used a Pedometer Spell against Harry Potter during their final showdown in book 7. *pretty sure*

I think this last decade will be remembered as the “decade of useless gadgets providing solutions to problems no one had.”

I’m totally ready to become a cranky old man.

And Kiala, I expect to be reading all sorts of cool updates in your tech blog about this product’s fast track to store shelves.

What that makes me, I do not know.

the up/down motion that typically occurs during a stride is interpreted as a step.

most units some internal calibration to tell the pedometer how far your stride is. that info, coupled with the number of steps, gives you a distance traveled.

older units were purely mechanical, employing a weight that incremented a counter, but those were less accurate due to “false positives.”

the modern version uses multiple sensors to isolate motion in each of the three axes, and therefore is less prone to error.

finally, the very best modern “pedometer” of all may be a personal GPS device, which does not count steps per se but total distance traveled–a far more useful metric.

i used some big words but it’s a simple explanation.