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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 »

Filed under: Professional healthcare products

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 »

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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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CES 2012: Baby Watch, the first wearable video baby monitor

CES 2012: Baby Watch, the first wearable video baby monitor

One of the big issues with baby monitors is that they have a base in one room, whereas you are mobile flitting from one room to another. Sure you can take the monitor with you, but how many times have you left it in one room and forgotten about it? Hoping to solve this problem is the Baby Watch – which is being billed as the first ever wearable baby monitor. The video monitor is built … Read entire article »

Filed under: Child health gadgets

CES 2012 – STMicroelectronics’ unveils ‘cheap-ish’ smart suit prototype

CES 2012 – STMicroelectronics’ unveils ‘cheap-ish’ smart suit prototype

Are wearable medical gadgets going to be big in 2012? Well STMicroelectronics NV (STM), Europe’s largest semiconductor maker, certainly thinks so. At CES it is due to unveil a smart-suit prototype with motion sensors which is designed to help people recover from injuries quicker, improve their co-ordination if they are suffering from conditions like Parkinson’s Disease or push their body that bit more if they are athletes. It works by harnessing sewn-in multisensor nodes that can … Read entire article »

Filed under: Professional healthcare products, Research

CES 2012: Wahoo Fitness debuts the Blue HR, the first Bluetoooth heart rate strap for the iPhone 4S

CES 2012: Wahoo Fitness debuts the Blue HR, the first Bluetoooth heart rate strap for the iPhone 4S

One of the big CES 2012 health stories is the arrival of the Wahoo Fitness Blue HR heart rate strap. It was announced in December but is set to go on sale in the US any moment now. Its big claim is that it is the world’s first Bluetooth Smart heart rate strap made for the iPhone 4S (and also other Bluetooth Smart Ready devices). It is a standard format of a strap and an … Read entire article »

Filed under: Fitness Gadgets, Health Gadgets, Mobile Phone Apps

CES 2012: Zensorium’s Tinke – the smartest iPhone heart rate monitor so far?

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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CES 2012 – BodyMedia debuts ‘intelligent’ adhesive patch bandage

CES 2012 – BodyMedia debuts ‘intelligent’ adhesive patch bandage

Now this looks very smart. BodyMedia, which has already unveiled a new personal health system at CES 2012, is parading a new and highly innovative new way of capturing data about our bodies. It has unveiled an adhesive patch which you place on your skin and leave there for seven days. During that time it records as many as 500 data points each minute including calorie burn, steps taken, activity levels, and sleep pattern. Designed to … Read entire article »

Filed under: Fitness Gadgets, Research

CES 2012 – Bodymedia updates its Fitbit/Jawbone Up rival – the Fit

CES 2012 – Bodymedia updates its Fitbit/Jawbone Up rival – the Fit

We have seen the Jawbone Up and more recently the Fitbit, but there’s another player in the personal fitness gadgets market – the BodyMedia Fit. Aimed at the US market, with no details on a UK launch yet, the Fit system, which has been available for a while now, is arguably as much about weight loss as keeping super healthy and fit. It works in an interesting way by combining an armband that works with tracking … Read entire article »

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