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CES 2012 Withings Smart Baby Scale – which tweets your baby’s weight
If you have had a child you probably know that weighing them is a process fraught with all kinds of difficulties, from getting on the scales through to keeping them still. The biggest problem is invariably actually remembering to write down their weight so you can access it at a later date Well French technology company Withings hopes to come your aid on that one. It has just announced an Internet-connected baby and toddler scale, the Withings … Read entire article »
Filed under: Child health gadgets, Mobile Phone Apps
Connected Health at CES – videos, hands on reviews and more
If you like your gadgets you probably already know that this weeks sees Las Vegas hosts the Consumer Electronics Show. Imagine a dozen or so hall filled to the brim with the latest in shiny tech and you’ll get the idea. Over the week 100,000 journalists, industry movers and shakers and hangers on make the pilgrimage to the Las Vegas convention centre and CHS will be among them bringing you hands on reviews and video … Read entire article »
Filed under: CHS news
The Iqua Beat could be the ultimate fitness gadget
Yesterday we explored some of the key digital health trends we’re expecting to see at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week. One of the main trends was a move toward fitness gadgets that aren’t just about motivating beginners, but are aimed at dedicated fitness fanatics and athletes too, who want to train better and achieve more, and the Iqua Beat from Iqua is designed especially for that purpose. The Iqua Beat is different from other … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fitness Gadgets
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 »
Filed under: Apps, Latest News
5 Digital health trends we’re expecting to see at CES
Every year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which takes place in Las Vegas during January, showcases the newest and most innovative tech products from all over the globe. Home cinema systems, cars, giant speakers, personal safety devices, software, computers the list really could go on and on (and on and on). However, this year a huge part of the trade show will be dedicated to emerging trends and brand new products in the digital health … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fitness Gadgets, Health Gadgets
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 »
Filed under: Apps
Tonic Health brings iPads and gamification to patient data collection
When a company launches with the tag – ‘it is time to bring a smile to healthcare, ‘I can’t help feeling a little suspicious, but I might make an exception for a new start up called Tonic Health. It has pioneered a new way of collecting data from patients using the iPad and a concept called Gamification. Gamification is a process by which companies aim to make things simpler and more fun by turning them into … Read entire article »
Filed under: iPad/tablet PC apps, Professional healthcare products
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 »
Filed under: Apps, Mobile Phone Apps
10 Gadgets to help you stick to your new year’s resolutions
It’s that time of year again, as soon as the nation has finished over-indulging on New Year’s Eve everyone’s thinking about, talking about and trying to stick to their resolutions for the new year. We’ve collected together ten gadgets that’ll help you keep up with your resolutions in the long run, whether you want to work out more, lose some of that Christmas weight or wake up with more energy even when it’s dark and gloomy outside. If … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Features, Fitness Gadgets, Health Gadgets
Health gadgets could save the NHS millions
We all know that health gadgets and apps make life easier for both the users and health professionals, but there is another compelling reason for governments and businesses to invest ion gadgets – they could end up saving millions of pounds. At the moment the cash-strapped NHS is desperate top make savings so that it can maintain the high standards it attained (shorter waiting lists etc) during the last government. One route to saving cash might … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health Gadgets, Latest News, Research
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