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Me-trics, a startup that launched at TC 50, wants to collect data and than analyze it to find correlations in your stress level, meals dine out, systolic blood pressure and other such factors.

You would have to provide your current stress level and also your content feeds and the service will try to analyze what was it that you consumed that made you this tense and now how to relax and calm down.

The service might be interesting but the it has to overcome a grave problem of somehow motivating its users to provide it with all the data. First the users would have to input their stress levels or blood pressure levels, than they have to provide their content feeds like twitter, friendfeed and the likes. Its only than that Me-trics would be able to come up with something significant to tell them.

So in essence it boils down to “No Data – No Analysis – No Service”.

Although Me-trics is claiming that it will make use of the extensive API’s provided by almost every other service on the block out there, but even that would not be the end of it. You would still need to ask the user to provide you with his personal medical data.

Me-trics has created a mobile app, so that you could input your stress levels etc on the go and don’t have to remember it till you have access to your PC. Yet, again the service has not been able to untie itself from somehow gathering this data automatically.

Call me skeptical, but I seriously doubt any personal service that relies on the users ability to be useful.

You can watch their TC 50 launch video below: