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Category: fitness

  • Printable, multi-touch sensors consumers can cut with scissors

    http://embodied.mpi-inf.mpg.de/files/2012/11/ACuttableMultiTouchSensor.pdf Max Planck Institute researchers and the MIT Media Lab have developed printable, multi-touch sensors that are printed with e-ink and can be cut with scissors.  A new circuit layout makes it robust against cuts, damage, and removed areas.  By customizing and pasting such a sensor, one can make every surface interactive, including the wristband…

  • Streamlined, simplified, cloud based consumer health data

    http://www.wellnessfx.com/ WellnessFX provides consumers with lab test results, real time heart rate data, and long feedback data from sleep sensors in a simple and well designed format.  They seek to empower individuals to control their health and fitness by monitoring themselves, making it “easy to view changes that occur between blood tests, allowing you to…

  • Mayo Clinic studies step tracking data as a post-surgery monitoring tool

    http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(13)01253-8/fulltext Mayo Clinic has published a study using step recording from a  Fitbit activity tracker to monitor recovery in cardiac surgery patients and help hospitals determine the appropriate length of stay.  Those who had the shortest hospital stay walked the most on all days in the study, by a statistically significant margin. Likewise, patients bound for home walked…

  • Angel Health Monitor – Open platform, wearable vital sign sensors

    http://www.angelsensor.com/index.html The Angel Health Monitor is an open platform and SDK that senses motion and acceleration, skin temperature, blood oxygen saturation, and heart rate.  It was created by Eugene Jorov in Israel and will launch a crowdfunding campaign soon.  Developers will be able to use Angel to create apps for iPhone, Android, and other devices…

  • Home medical device data uploaded to EHRs; patient participation encourages behavior modification

    http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/07/28/century-house-call/tdupWvOQI6b3dKdKcEgdGM/story.html Boston’s Partners HealthCare has launched a system that allows patients to upload information from their medical devices directly to their electronic records in doctors’ offices.  Patients can regularly use glucometers, blood pressure cuffs, bathroom scales, and pulse oximeters at home, and send the data to their doctors.  Doctors are also becoming increasingly interested in…

  • Biosensor tattoo monitors physical exertion

    http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1353 Temporary tattoos are emerging as a preferred way to monitor health.  Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a sensor that monitors chemicals in the wearer’s sweat to gauge physical exertion. The temporary electrochemical tattoo relies on a carbon fiber backbone so that it bends with the skin during normal activity…

  • mHealth timeline, 2009 – 2013

    http://mobihealthnews.com/22674/timeline-smartphone-enabled-health-devices/ Sensors are becoming smaller, smarter, and more ubiquitous,  and have transformed the way we monitor our health.  Attached is a timeline of health and fitness apps from 2009 through today, providing an interesting look at the development of the mHealth market.

  • Mobile phone microphones as health sensors

    http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21578518-sensor-technology-microphones-are-designed-capture-sound-they-turn-out The Economist’s Technology Quarterly describes how mobile phone microphones are being used as versatile sensors with myriad health applications.  Examples follow: 1. Professor Tanzeem Choudhury of Cornell has created StressSense to capture and analyze voice characteristics such as amplitude and frequency. Her team concluded that “it is feasible to implement a computationally demanding stress-classification system…

  • Another crowdfunded vital sign monitor

    http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/scanadu-scout-the-first-medical-tricorder As the crowdfunding of remote health devices increases, another vital sign monitor has launched on Indiegogo. Scanadu Scout analyzes and tracks temperature, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, heart rate, blood pressure and stress trends.  The company states that it accomplishes this in 10 seconds. The device is still pre-FDA approval but quite promising. They claim…

  • Crowdfunding an autonomic nervous system monitor

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723246920/finally-a-wearable-device-that-can-improve-your-li?ref=category The W/Me sensor has the ability to capture electrical impulses relayed from the sinoatrial (SA) node, a group of specialized cells in the right atrium. It uses a proprietary algorithm to measure heart rate variability, map the autonomic nervous system, and indicate mental state.

  • 8 new sensor based health tracking devices

    http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/gallery/wearable_trackers/ An overview of 8 new sensor based health tracking devices.  Some predict that 400 million such products will enter the market by 2014.