Withings has announced a new activity tracker which, like the FitBit will also track sleep patterns. A new capability is that it also will give what looks like a static heart rate read-out when you press a finger to the…
Thats the Arduino board at the top, and a mini-breadboard with the heart-rate monitor chip and 7 segment display on the bottom. Not quite as elegant as a Polar wristwatch monitor (which I compared to for accuracy)… but its…
Sitting at the end of my Comcast business internet service, I was interested to see that the president of Comcast, David Cohen, in a reverse “Let them eat cake” moment, doesn’t think consumers need gigabit broadband. In an opinion piece…
I actually like don’t mind mowing my lawn. I have a battery-powered push mower called a Neuton, which I push around my 1/4 acre, using one battery for the front lawn, and a second battery for the back lawn plus the…
Parallax, along with with the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center and Carnegie Mellon, are sponsoring the microMedic contest for the use of vital-sign sensors for medical applications. Parallax has assembled a sensor and component kit targeted to…
In a post, Patient engagement will be tough task for health tech on InfoWorld http://bit.ly/ZpKCJh As an example, I learned last week at the HIMMS 2013 conference that one pilot project of at-home wireless glucose monitors at several hospitals reduced…
“What would old people do with a fiber optic broadband internet connection to their home?” (Click to enlarge the image).
I found myself building list of the applications that we would expect to be running in our rural senior housing sites, for both residents (The Technology Enabled Home) and the housing and health-care staff that are onsite. This should give…
1. We have begun a “soft opening”… with our Tele-Yoga for COPD/CHF patients, transmitting to 3 patients in their homes in California, which have been equipped with DocBoxes. Originating from our “studio” (the community exercise room) in one of Cathedral…
Parallax has added a Polar heart-rate sensor with chest strap to its line of sensors, as well as a receiver. Both are around $30.00 each. Found in the super wonderful Nuts and Volts magazine.
