For a mere $99 (which is less than what you would pay for a iPod Nano) you can track calories burned, your amount of sleep, and distance traveled with a new cute sure-to-lure-iAnything-lovers-product simply called “Fitbit”. It’s a tiny device that you wear throughout the day that monitors and tracks your fitness. The device syncs up with the fitbit.com online community site which will then track and analyze all of your data.

Sounds pretty neat – although I am not quite sure if I am down with constantly tracking everything I do. Buying and actually using a heart rate monitor is as obsessive as I’ve gotten recently. I can see this as a useful tool for anyone who is a hardcore calorie tracking junkie… (The Fitbit site also allows you to enter the amount of calories consumed so the site can calculate total calories burned on any given day.)

It seems a little over the top for even someone with as much OCD tendencies like myself… Still, you can color me intrigued. I can see this as something that might be a useful and cheaper alternative to someone who is not yet to the price range commitment of a high end running water like a Garmin but is beyond the needs of a cheaper alternative like the iPhone RunKeeper app.

You can now pre-order a fitbit on the company site. See for yourself on http://www.fitbit.com