Smartwatches and other wearable devices that continuously measure users’ heart rates, skin temperature and other physiological markers can help spot coronavirus infections days before an individual is diagnosed. From a report: Devices like the Apple Watch, Garmin and Fitbit watches can predict whether an individual is positive for COVID-19 even before they are symptomatic or the virus is detectable by tests,…
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The Secret to Longevity? 4-Minute Bursts of Intense Exercise May Help
The New York Times reports on results from a rigorous five-year study in Trondheim, Norway that raises the question: If you increase your heart rate, will your life span follow? The study, one of the largest and longest-term experimental examinations to date of exercise and mortality, shows that older men and women who exercise in almost any fashion are relatively unlikely…
Garmin Introduces Esports Fitness Smartwatch For Streamers
Garmin has launched the Instinct Esports Edition, a “rugged GPS smartwatch uniquely designed for esports athletes and enthusiasts to take their gaming performance to the next level.” How is that possible, you ask? Gizmodo explains: Well, for starters, the watch adds an esports activity for tracking so you can monitor your heart rate and stress during a game. Garmin also developed…
Print These Electronic Circuits Directly Onto Skin
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: New circuits can get printed directly on human skin to help monitor vital signs, a new study finds. In the new study, researchers developed a way to sinter nanoparticles of silver at room temperature. The key behind this advance is a so-called a sintering aid layer, consisting of a biodegradable polymer paste…
We may be able to tell someone’s heart rate just by looking at them
Researchers asked volunteers to match an on-screen heart rate to videos of people’s faces, and the participants were able to guess better than chance. It could be that this ability helps us judge other people’s emotions Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2255776-we-may-be-able-to-tell-someones-heart-rate-just-by-looking-at-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Researchers Build a Low-Power Radar on a CMOS ChIp
The international R&D hub Imec has made a millimetre-wave motion detection radar integrated in a standard 28nm CMOS chip, reports Electronics Weekly, adding that it consumes just 62 mW,”making the sensor integrable into small, battery-powered devices…” The radar operates in the frequency band around 60 GHz, a license-free ISM band that can be used for new IoT applications for industrial and…
Sketch a heart sensor with pencil drawings that become electrodes
Mesh-like pencil sketches on paper can be used as sensors that detect heart rate, skin temperature and compounds in sweat Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248749-sketch-a-heart-sensor-with-pencil-drawings-that-become-electrodes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Pencil marks on paper can work as electrical sensors on your skin
Mesh-like pencil sketches on paper can be used as sensors that detect heart rate, skin temperature and compounds in sweat Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248749-pencil-marks-on-paper-can-work-as-electrical-sensors-on-your-skin/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Google’s Fitbit Takeover Probed by EU Regulators
The EU is questioning whether Google’s proposed takeover of Fitbit will harm competition, or give it access to too much personal data. From a report: Fitbit makes fitness-tracking watches that monitor the wearer’s heart rate and activity levels. A group of 20 consumer groups and privacy advocates have called for Google’s takeover to be blocked. Google said it would not use…
Scientists Trigger Hibernation In Mice, Could Astronauts Be Next?
“Scientists in Japan successfully triggered a hibernation-like state in mice by activating a specific group of brain cells,” reports UPI, which points out that entering a hibernation-like state “could help astronauts conserve food and water, as well as avoid the ill-effects of microgravity, on long journeys through space.”
The research, published this week in the journal Nature, suggests even animals that don’t…