We shipped an app that counts your fidgets — here is why NEAT science pushed us to do it

The itch Levine's NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis) research stopped us mid-scroll: habitual fidgeters can burn around 350 kcal more per day than sedentary people — not through any structured exercise, just unconscious leg motion. The frustrating part was having no way to know which category you fall into on any given day, or even which hour. So we built BinBot. How the detection works The core is a 100Hz CoreMotion capture pipeline run through a 3–9Hz IIR bandpass filter. Human fidget