How happy are you? Apps Mappiness and MoodPanda can tell you
Do you ever stop during the day to think about how you feel about everything? Is life good, bad or just exhausting? Are there times of the day when you feel top of the world, but other times when you are in the dumps? There are now several iPhone apps which can help you track your mood and give some information about when and where you are happiest. Mappiness has been around for quite a while now. … Read entire article »
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CES 2012 – Qualcomm to champion health, medical and fitness gadgets – AliveCor and Sotera Wireless
Qualcomm is one of the world’s leading tech companies and has an enormous business built on manufacturing the chips for mobile phones. It is also highly entrepreneurial and is often at the cutting edge of innovative new applications and features for mobile phones and gadgets. So no surprises then that it is championing medical and health gadgets. At a keynote at CES Chairman and CEO Dr. Paul Jacobs teamed up with Dr. Eric Topol, the chief … Read entire article »
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CES 2012: Zensorium’s Tinke – the smartest iPhone heart rate monitor so far?
Wired has just broken the story on the Tinke from Singapore based company Zensorium. There are lots of devices for measuring your blood pressure on your iPhone, but the Tinke might just be the smartest so far. It is a two unit system with dongle that fits on to your iPhone that then connects to a wearable heart monitor – which incidentally comes in an array of bright colours. It measures heart stats like blood pressure, … Read entire article »
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BUPA announces brain-health iPhone app, BrainyApp, to help fight dementia
It’s not just physical health that technology can help with. There’s mental health too. Private health company BUPA recently launched its Health Finder iPhone app which enables you to look up various medical conditions as well as check out private health facilities near you and make/check appointments via your iPhone’s calendar. See review here. Now it has announced a new mental health app called appropriately enough BrainyApp. Billed as the world’s first brain health app, the … Read entire article »
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US app Gym-Pact pays you to work out
If you’ve ever thought living a healthy, active lifestyle would be so much more appealing if you received some kind of reward for your efforts, then you’re in luck because a new application called Gym-Pact actually pays you for sticking to your work out goals. You begin by downloading the app and then committing to a certain number of work outs per week. You then agree to pay money for each day you miss. Bear with … Read entire article »
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Apps to help you quit smoking – NHS, My Last Cigarette and Hypnoquit
So it is January and you are full of good intentions about how you can change your life. You are going to visit the gym more, not skimp on the veggies and chomp on vitamin pills. For many people though the biggest health challenge they face is quitting smoking. Breaking any kind of addiction is a very tricky task and when the substance your body craves is Nicotine you might feel like you have a mountain … Read entire article »
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BUPA’s iPhone health finder app provides free health advice on the go
Healthcare group Bupa has launched a free iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch app giving people access to health information on the move. Though designed primarily for Bupa’s three million members, the app provides plenty of information for non-members too, including the company’s extensive database of 600 award-winning health factsheets. Covering conditions from ADHD through to Yellow Fever, Bupa’s health factsheets have already been viewed 20 million times online and it’s hoped that putting them on the smartphone app … Read entire article »
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iPhone apps that may help you fight flu and stay fit
Well everyone’s caught onto how iPhones help your health: whether you want to diet, make a tourniquet for your leg, or err.. have a baby. Hell who even needs a doctor these days [joke]. Anyway if iPhones can be a source of first aid, menstruation calendars and relaxing bell music it stands to reason that they stand alongside paracetemol, gin and those antibiotic water-free handwashes in the front-line against colds and flus. Because that’s the sort of … Read entire article »
Vitadock – the iPhone app that can measure Glucose, Blood Pressure and more
Well this was always going to happen, but that doesn’t make it any less of a good idea. A German company Medisana has just issued an iPhone app that works with a series of docks to enable consumers to keep a check on their health. The app is free – although I could only find the German language version for now – users only pay for the modules. There are four in the series which … Read entire article »
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5 Fitness apps for Windows phones: Run the Map, Calorie Tracker and TuneIn Radio
There are so many lists and articles online detailing the best applications for iOS and Android users to track their fitness, monitor their calorie intake and keep a record of their health, but what about Windows phone users who want to get in on the action but are often overlooked? Well, here’s our pick of five of the best new applications available to Windows phone users to help them get fitter. Get downloading now so you … Read entire article »
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