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ELI5 Activity Trackers - how do they detect deep sleep?
What are the creative ways people fool their FitBit? How does my activity tracker differentiate between steps and my tapping to a rhythm? Does it use GPS to calibrate? How does it know what stage of sleep I'm in? ... We...
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ELI5 Activity Trackers - how do they detect deep sleep? is an episode from Explain Like I'm 5: Bite sized answers to stuff you should know about - in a mini podcast by ELI5 Explain Like I'm Five Podcast. What are the creative ways people fo...
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Published Jan 23, 2026, 8:24 long, audio available.
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