LIVE: Chat About the Best Tech for Health and Wellness

Technology seems to take us away from "active" activities like sports for recreation instead of video games or just walking around a physical store rather than shopping online. But, plenty of innovations help us live more healthily.

In today's Hangout we'll discuss these things with Derek Flanzraich, founder and CEO of lifestyle site Greatist.

The following are a few topics we'll be discussing in today's Hangout.


A digital lifestyle can allow for a flexible schedule and traveling — which makes those visits to the gym even harder to fit in. For those dedicated to hitting the gym, running outdoors or using the UP by Jawbone wristband to keep track of activity, GymPact helps keep you on track.

Workouts at home are nothing new, but digital workouts stand out from the VHS or DVDs that domintated the past few decades — a digital workout can be different each day. Bodbot offers a calendar based on your goals so you do different exercises each day. The scientific 7-minute workout is supposed to replace cardio and weights in less time while only requiring a wall and a chair as props. Zova wants to become the Spotify of workouts and will eventually allow instructors to take its boxing and soccer sets and remix them into new workout playlists.

What workouts are best for you when you can't make it to a formal exercise class or the gym?


For engineers used to programming the tedium out of daily tasks, it was only a matter of time until one of them decided to disrupt food, right? A a Y Combinator alumnus did just that with Soylent, a liquid food replacement that should reduce time and money spent on food while still providing the nutrition your body needs. Some of us find cooking to be and art and eating a celebration, and may not understand the need for such a product, but Soylent's crowdfunding campaign shows it's garnered much enthusiasm.

If it's not serving a social purpose, should eating a meal be engineered away?


Standing desks are all the rage, and it's been said that sitting is our generation's cigarettes. Five years from now, will many of us have "quit"?

Lift is an app that helps you track your daily activities with the purpose of building habits — a much easier task when you are able to visualize the progress. The team at Greatist recently used the app to do a month of mindfulness. Is a month enough to build a new habit and make a lasting change?

To add your own favorite tips or apps, leave us a comment.

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