April 9, 2004
Human Health Condition Monitoring
This is a pretty neat device. Developed by Greg Kovacs of Stanford University, it combines several different sensors, along with a good amount of memory and wireless access into a single wearable device. This is going to change the information that we have as to what kinds of physical stress we see everyday during our own routines. I know that I'd like to have one.
Posted by elkaim at April 9, 2004 1:37 PMIt's a compact, portable, wearable device -- a single piece of equipment that gathers a wide variety of vital signs. About the size of a computer mouse, a CPOD is worn around the waist. It's comfortable enough to be worn while sleeping. It's non-invasive. It takes only minutes to don. Importantly, it can track a person's physiologic functioning as they go about their normal routine -- they don't have to be tethered to some stationary device. It can store data for eight-hour periods for later downloading; alternatively, it can send it wirelessly, in real time, to some other device.
"This is a new tool," says Kovacs. "It allows monitoring of the body without invasion of the body --- without tethering the person down, letting them go about their normal business."