Astro Teller Quotes

Get yourself a pedometer. It's an inexpensive device that fits in your pocket or clips on your pants and counts your steps.

Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.

Wearable technology is a big trend, and a lot of people have been trying to figure out how to take it from band or bracelet to clothing. We thought it'd be cool to make a shirt that can monitor your body measurements.

I see more people taking charge of their well-being through the use of data and digital sensors, wearable health bands, and smartphone apps that can track and quantify everything from their heart rate, blood pressure, and sleep quality to steps walked and calories consumed.

Vivametrica isn't the only company vying for control of the fitness data space. There is considerable power in becoming the default standard-setter for health metrics. Any company that becomes the go-to data analysis group for brands like Fitbit and Jawbone stands to make a lot of money.

Self-tracking using a wearable device can be fascinating.

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

I really feel it when I can't get to the gym for a few weeks. I like to run on a treadmill in the gym so I can keep track of what I'm doing.

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

The Nike Fuel Band is interesting - it measures your movements and how far you've walked and how hard you've worked that day. I prefer using when I travel. It's a fun way to see how far I've walked - how many steps I've taken when I'm walking around different cities.

The world going 100 percent mobile actually means the world going 100 percent trackable.

Obviously, virtual reality is where I've placed my bet about the future and where the excitement is going. At this point, I could say it's almost a lock. It's going to be magical - it is magical - and great things are coming from that. Along the way, I was focused on the first-person shooters. I said we should go do something on mobile.

We are moving closer to a future where quantified lives will become the norm.

I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmitting that information to the cloud. It allows me to track and maintain my health much better.

No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.

In digital healthcare, we have introduced connected devices, including thermometers and blood pressure monitors that are connected through a common app. For instance, our weighing scales can measure your arterial stiffness and warn you.

The drive for growth of education technology will further accelerate. Another key area of major growth is e-Health. The overall outlook for the industry is certainly optimistic.

IoT could also mean seamless critical and elderly care.

If you're like me, and self-motivation just doesn't get the job done, maybe a little fitness-app competition is just what you need to ignite your need to get moving. It's worth a shot!

I may not be doing it right, but I love to get on an elliptical and put the kids on FaceTime in front of me and just get after it. They don't even have to talk to me. They just put the phone on and put it in the living room and one will walk by and be like, 'Hey!'

The future of cellular telephony is to make people's lives better - the most important way, in my view, will be the opportunity to revolutionise healthcare.

For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.