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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
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
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?
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 »
Filed under: Apps, 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
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
It’s ok – your iPad isn’t responsible for your lack of sleep
We have all been there. It is time to go to bed, but there’s just one more news story/Facebook update/tweet that you need to read and before you know it the birds’ dawn chorus are warming up. So are phones and laptops actually responsible for us not getting as much speep as we used to. Well some new Australian research claims that gadgets, phones and laptops haven’t actually impacted on our sleeping patterns. University of Sydney researchers … Read entire article »
Filed under: iPad/tablet PC apps, Research
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