Google Inc.’s life sciences group has created a health-tracking wristband that could be used in clinical trials and drug tests, giving researchers or physicians minute-by-minute data on how patients are faring.
The experimental device, developed within the company’s Google X research division, can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, and also environmental information like light exposure and noise levels. It won’t be marketed as a consumer device, said Andy Conrad, head of the life sciences team at Google.
Like Apple’s ResearchKit, I’m really glad technology companies are actively trying to help advance medical research, treatments, and so on. Technology can have a huge impact here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfqaZ8_Z5aA
Of course there, this became an in’s for widespread citizen monitoring an surveillance for an expanding police state, but I’m sure we can trust Google.
Another thing for self-important hipsters to wear while they criticize the rest of us.
By hipsters, I can only assume you mean people recovering from hip surgeries. Darn them and their titanium endoskeletons! I’ll move out of the basement when I feel like it, DAD! They replace a crumbling joint then start acting like they know everything.
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Perhaps I’m missing something, but what data is this collecting that’s different from the Microsoft Band?
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Microsoft-Band/…
It looks like the same data points to me.
If a person is overweight, will their online ads suddenly all be for diet pills? A person with undiagnosed high blood pressure, will they be dropped by their insurance company or have their rates increased?
C’mon Google, we weren’t born yesterday.
Sounds like it’d fit in perfectly with our new Obamacare bullshit wellness program, doesn’t it? Wonder how long it’ll be before they make these mandatory, too?