Student-designed device provides new way to track calorie burning

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A group of Georgia Tech students has crafted a device that allows individuals to constantly compute the amount of calories they burn

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Counting calories that burn through activity is a constant quandary.

One can only run on a treadmill so long, watching intently as the pedometer reads out the number of calories melted during a session of exercise. Not to mention the question of how many calories are burned through basic daily movements and even during sleep.

But technology

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Electrical engineering; ECE; calorie burning
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  • Created On: Mar 8, 2009 - 8:00pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 11:01pm