New Members Added: 287/1000 Skip to content Try Ads-Free Fark It's Not News, It's Fark How To FarkLog In | Sign Up » Forgot password? Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience. If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. Discussion Entertainment Awards, luxury cars, crime, and meth are all on the Fark Weird News Quiz, May 2-8 Fitness Tracker Edition (fark.com) More: Weird, Perfume, Heart, Flower, Shortbread, Quiz, Asshole, Glass bottle, Bottle posted toMain »and Discussion »on 10 May 2025 at3:42 AM(4 minutes ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link 4 Comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest (0) Funniest 18 minutes ago Welcome to the Fark Weird News Quiz! If this is your first time here, you can start the Quiz by clicking on the logo next to the headline above, or here: https://www.fark.com/quiz/1982 Once your score is tallied, you can click on any of the correct answers to be taken to the Fark thread about that story. If you don't have a Fark account, you can still take the Easy Quiz here: https://www.fark.com/quiz/1984 ox45tallboy (0) Funniest 10 minutes ago Herbert was born in Manhattan in 1901 and had a fairly normal childhood. As a teenager, he took a job with Ford Motor Company as a mechanic. He was fascinated with the way the cars worked and the engineering behind them, and he learned quite a bit about engineering there despite a lack of a formal education. However, after only a few months, his brothers asked him to help them out with their business, and his mother wouldn't let him say no. He and his brothers were quite successful, but after a few decades when he was pretty much set for life he decided to go his own way and went back to tinkering. One of the things he thought about was heart problems and how they were being addressed in the medical field. He saw how hospitals had the machine that goes "ping" and thought there had to be a better way of doing this for people who wanted to live their lives without wheeling about a heavy and expensive machine that constantly pinged. This was the glorious 1960s, after all. We had nuclear weapons and men in space and miracle vaccines and TV dinners and even handheld mixers for boxed cake mix. As the technology wasn't there yet for a display (digital watches were still almost a decade away), he thought that knowing the exact heart rate wasn't as important as knowing when a limit had been reached. Herbert designed a device one could wear on the wrist that would detect the heart rate via ECG signal and sound an alarm if one's pulse got too high or too low, and made these levels adjustable. He envisioned the device not only for people with heart problems, but also athletes and fitness buffs who wanted to achieve a particular pulse rate or maintain it for a certain amount of time. In 1967, Herbert was issued patent number 3,473,526 for his Cardiac Pulse Rate Monitor, the precursor to all the wearable fitness devices available today. Although he only sold a few thousand units, his invention laid the groundwork for others, including the Polar Electro Sport Tester developed by the University of Oulu in Finland for Polar Electro in 1977, the first wearable device that offered real-time access to one's heart rate. This device, originally designed for the Finnish National Ski Team, became ubiquitous in Olympics and professional athlete training when it was released commercially in 1982. Today's modern fitness trackers and smart watches with fitness functions all go back to Herbert's device. So the next time you close your rings or hit your step goal or fill your bars, think of Herbert, because he was the guy who started the whole industry. Herbert Manfred "Zeppo" Marx. Anyway, take the Quiz and come back and tell us how you did and why Zeppo never got the credit he deserved for playing the straight man. Let me know if you have any issues. ox45tallboy (0) Funniest 6 minutes ago ox45tallboy (0) Funniest 2 minutes ago $150 for this and it doesn't even have the endorsement of some vapid celebrity. Displayed 4 of 4 comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest Redisplay/refresh comments If you're having problems voting, quoting, or posting comments, try disabling any browser add-ons that might disable Javascript (NoScript, AdBlock, etc).See our FAQ. 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