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CES 2012: Video demo of the Basis health and heart rate monitor

CES 2012: Video demo of the Basis health and heart rate monitor

It seems health and fitness monitoring devices were the most popular new offerings at CES this year, but the Basis stands out because of its simple watch design and super intuitive interface. It’s basically a watch device, which measures your heart rate, steps you’ve taken, calories you’ve burned, your skin temperature and your sweat levels. You can then link the data up to your computer where you can interact with the dashboard and take a close … Read entire article »

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CES 2012: Video demo of Valencell’s fitness monitoring technology

CES 2012: Video demo of Valencell’s fitness monitoring technology

Over the past few months we’ve come across various gadgets that utilise in-ear technologies to get the most accurate health and fitness metrics (take a look at the Iqua Beat device we covered last week). At CES we also came across a company called Valencell, which aims to find out important physiological data from the wearer through their ear. Valencell has worked its technology into small earbuds that contain the all-important tiny sensors, they then collect the … Read entire article »

Filed under: Fitness Gadgets, Health Gadgets

CES 2012: Video demo of the Fitbit Aria scales

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 »

Filed under: Apps, Health Gadgets

CES 2012: Video demo of Qualcomm AliveCor iPhone ECG – the app that could save your life

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 »

Filed under: Apps, Professional healthcare products

CES 2012 – Forget hospital Matrons – here comes Ava the healthcare robot from iRobot

CES 2012 – Forget hospital Matrons – here comes Ava the healthcare robot from iRobot

The Japanese have been using personal robots to monitor people’s health for many years, but now it seems like we might be about to start catching up. At CES 2012 iRobot,the company that makes the Roomba home-cleaning robots, was parading its Ava bot, a three-to-five-foot tall robot with an Apple iPad for a head. There are a number of potential uses for the bot, an obvious one is facilitating video conversations between people in remote locations, but … Read entire article »

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CES 2012 – second generation Striv ‘pedometer on steroids’ on its way

CES 2012 – second generation Striv ‘pedometer on steroids’ on its way

I actually feel a little disingenuous calling the Striiv a pedometer as it really is unlike any other pedometer, but I’ll stick with that label for now. In case you missed its launch a few months back – US only, not anywhere else at the moment – the Striiv is being billed as a personal trainer in your pocket. It takes the basic pedometer features and builds on them to deliver a very interesting device … Read entire article »

Filed under: Fitness Gadgets

How happy are you? Apps Mappiness and MoodPanda can tell you

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 »

Filed under: Apps, Mental Health

CES 2012 – Qualcomm to champion health, medical and fitness gadgets – AliveCor and Sotera Wireless

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 – The Basis, a wrist based rival to the FitBit, Jawbone Up and BodyMedia Fit

CES 2012 – The Basis, a wrist based rival to the FitBit, Jawbone Up and BodyMedia Fit

Out of all the new health gadgets that are being paraded as CES, this is the one that we are most looking forward to getting out mitts on. The Basis is a rival to products like the Fitbit Ultra and Jawbone Up, but I think it looks more stylish and high tech, more like the BodyMedia Fit. You also don’t need an iPhone to use it. The Basis is essentially a high-tech fitness tracking device housed … Read entire article »

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Market for mobile health increased seven fold in 2011, claims research2guidance

Market for mobile health increased seven fold in 2011, claims research2guidance

The smartphone application market for mobile healthcare increased by a factor of 7 to reach $US 718 million in 2011, according to mobile phone reasearch company research2guidance. Nevertheless, the mHealth market is still in an embryonic state. Theoretically the market potential is enormous given the overall worldwide healthcare market size of US$ 6 trillion (WHO estimate) and the potential use cases and benefits for mobile patient healthcare support. Within the last year, the growth in the mobile … Read entire article »

Filed under: Mobile Phone Apps, Research