RunKeeper gets social with ‘Healthy’ button
‘Tweet’ and ‘Like’ buttons can be found on pretty much every content site we visit nowadays. Well now, thanks to the fitness-tracking app Runkeeper, the ‘Healthy’ button will now be joining them. The fitness-tracking app launched a Healthy button and bookmarklet on Monday that gives it a social network feel. Users can now add content to their RunKeeper newsfeeds directly from sites that install the Healthy button. Although RunKeeper started out simply tracking users runs, its vision … Read entire article »
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Scottish Government takes new app-roach to drinking problem among women
Ever wondered if those couple of pints in the local each night after work actually made much of a difference to your youthful looks? Well, the Scottish Government has decided to make it possible for us to see just what effects alcohol can have on the ageing process. Titled the “Drinking Time Machine“, the app for the iPhone shows how alcohol can speed up the ageing process with a ‘Fat Booth’ style interface in the hope … Read entire article »
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Will drink tracker apps really ensure we drink alcohol more responsibly?
There are several apps available for iOS and Android devices that provide users with a way of keeping a close eye on what they drink on a night out. Many of them are created by health organisations and have been designed to stop you having too many units, others are a bit more silly and tell you how much of a bar bill you’re racking up and there are many out there that attempt to warn … Read entire article »
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MapMyFITNESS launches app for new Facebook Timeline
One of the largest and most popular health and fitness communities, MapMyFITNESS, has this week launched an app to integrate it’s users’ health and fitness data into Facebook’s new Timeline. The dedicated application will allow users to share all kinds of health stats, goals, achievements and fitness activities with their friends. We imagine this will be really beneficial and could encourage some people to push themselves that little bit harder or connect others with friends that … Read entire article »
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iHealth Dock and App lets you monitor your blood pressure from the comfort of your own home
From time to time, we all wish we had the necessary devices that would help us keep track on our health from the comfort of our own homes. Especially when it comes to taking ones blood pressure, which a lot of us get told to do by the doctors. The iHealth Blood Pressure Dock looks like any other iPhone/iPad charging device, but accompanied with the Blood Pressure Monitor app, it is the blood pressure test of … Read entire article »
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The personal trainer that fits in your pocket: LWR Personal Trainer app for iPhone and Android
If you’re like us you probably don’t go anywhere without your iPhone, including when you’re doing exercise. But how do you log the training you do to keep track of your progress? The Lucy Wyndham-Read Personal Trainer app for women, promises to help you. Just tell the app your target weight and the areas of your body you want to tone and it builds a 28-day personalised workout and healthy eating plan that fits perfectly for … Read entire article »
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iPhone app Skin Scan looks for skin cancer
Skin Scan is a skin cancer prevention tool that aims to ‘drastically reduce the cases in which people reach a medic when it’s too late and far more expensive by bringing a revolutionary screening method to potentially everyone’s home’. Developed by Cronian Labs, the technology is welcome by official bodies such as the Cancer Society of New Zealand as it could help remind people to look after their skin and visit their GP if they notice … Read entire article »
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Foodzy helps you keep track of everything you eat with Eatzies
Foodzy is a clever food and health tracking service that launched last year. It basically allows you to keep a close eye on everything you’re eating and drinking via the web, or an app on your iPhone or your Android phone. From there you can closely monitor everything, set goals for yourself, improve your eating habits or even compete against other users. The app’s developers have slowly been adding new features over the past few months, … Read entire article »
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CES 2012: Video demo of the Fitbit Aria scales
The intelligent scales department is starting to heat up. Last year Withings launched an wireless scale and followed it with a scale aimed at infants at CES 2012. Now Fitbit, famed for the Ultra wireless clip on fitness/activity tracker, has also entered the market with the Aria Wi-Fi scale. The Aria does many of the things the Withings does – namely measure weight, body fat, and body mass index – it also automatically uploads the data to … Read entire article »
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CES 2012: Video demo of Qualcomm AliveCor iPhone ECG – the app that could save your life
Hi, we have already written about AliveCor here. We did however manage to get a demo of the potentially life-saving software working on an iPhone. In case you missed it the software has already saved one life… Dr. Eric Topol, the chief academic officer of Scripps Health, who is also the author of a new book The Creative Destruction of Medicine, showed a prototype of a hand-held, clip-on smartphone electrocardiogram (EKG) reader, made by Qualcomm-funded AliveCor. Apparently, … Read entire article »
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