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Wearable widgets

ave you joined the sleep-tracking, steps-counting wearable tech craze yet? I’ve never been fond of numbers. My brain is more creative than logical; I dropped out of maths in Year 10 and the AutoSum is my only Excel trick. So naturally, when fitness trackers first appeared on the scene a few years ago, I didn’t get involved. I couldn’t understand why people wanted to track their every move, breath,

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