Monthly Archives: February 2014
Heart devices get a mobile makeover
Emerging diagnostic heart devices are going mobile. And by leveraging advances in smartphones and sensors, they’re able to perform their functions better, faster and cheaper than traditional heart monitoring equipment. For example, the CADence, shown above, detects blocked arteries from the surface of the chest by identifying the noisy signals…
Continue reading →Apple Prepping Sensors That Predict Heart Attacks, Report Says
We now know that Apple held closed-door talks with Tesla, a meeting of two innovative companies that hints at a number of possibilities. But buried in that same report from the San Francisco Chronicle is the news that Apple may also be preparing to release a heart-attack prediction device. According…
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