DIY pervasive health monitor keeps tabs on your vitals

If you think your heart rate-monitoring wristwatch is hot stuff, a homegrown creation from the Berkeley Institute of Design is apt to put that to shame. Dubbed the pervasive health monitoring system, this project involves a TI microcontroller, a Bluetooth interface, audio amplifier, and a trio of low power "instrumentation amplifiers," which creates an apparatus that can communicate wirelessly with your Windows Mobile-based handset (and PC, too). The device is rigged up to record ECG (heart rhythms), EMG (muscle tension), GSR (skin resistance), body temperature and movement information, and while we could certainly attempt to transcribe the creator, why not take a look at the informative video posted after the jump for all the data you could ever desire about this (admittedly fresh) invention.

[Via Hack-A-Day]

[Kris Burbidge @ Aug 24th 2007 10:28AM]

I'd monitor it.

[chaosrain @ Aug 24th 2007 10:51AM]

Hmmm. Sounds like a lie detector to me.

[plyx @ Aug 24th 2007 11:18AM]

That woman looks like a real bitch.

[Daniel Foster @ Aug 24th 2007 11:18AM]

All the hypochondriacs out there will want one of these.

[Clancy @ Aug 24th 2007 11:16PM]

Sorry guys i hate to break it to you but a more complete version of this has been around in Aust for a while,

Check it out

http://www.personalhealthmonitor.net/

now thats fresh.

[fran @ Aug 27th 2007 12:54AM]

Did you know this wireless ECG?

(MOVIE)
http://movie.diginfo.tv/2007/08/02/07-0146-d.php

[P Diddy @ Sep 7th 2007 6:30PM]

Great idea....but what happens if you discover something life threatening.

Sit down and call 911? Why should they believe you?

Send it to your Doctor by text message? his insurers aren't going to be pleased now are they?

data such as this is great but without reinventing the current healthcare system main stream use is going to be very limited...

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