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Samsung S5 Reports Stress Levels Through Heart Rate Variability Measure
oztechmuse (2323576) writes "Samsung has just released an updated version of its health software for the Samsung Galaxy S5 that measures stress levels. Using the heart rate sensor on the back of the phone, the S5 will calculate a measure of stress from low to high. Although this may seem far-fetched to some, the phone is actually using a measure of the heart rate to calculate something called 'heart rate variability' or HRV. HRV has been shown to be related to a range of clinical conditions that include problems with the heart but also mental issues of stress and anxiety. Athletes have also used HRV as a measure of over-training and so use heart rate monitors to check if they need rest days. Samsung seems to be claiming the ground in terms of innovation in health-related sensor technology. In addition to the built-in pulse oximeter sensor used for the HRV measurements, Samsung phones now support direct connections to heart rate straps using the Ant+ protocol as well as through Bluetooth. Apple and others have a long way to go to catch up."
Just sayin'.
now google can use this to tailor marketing responses
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And of course, we all know that this incredible breakthrough means that any health monitoring capabilities in future devices from a certain American company from Cupertino will only be late copies of awesome Samsung technologies like the Galaxy Gear and so many other wonderful innovations from this wonderful leader in consumer electronics.
use it to get you black listed
Or will Samsung try to monetize it?
What happens when your insurance carrier demands Samsung hand over this information?
Sorry, but, there comes a point where I think having your phone have more and more of this information is going to become more of a problem than a benefit.
And this is one of them.
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So, now I can see exactly how much stress the bloatware apps on my Samsung phone are causing me. Thanks!
But will it be able to tell you the difference between a heart attack and a panick attack?
Would you be interested in a device that links to your smartphone and lets you know, even before it happens, whether you're having a panic attack - or a heart attack?
- Yeah, yeah.
OK, here's how Panic-A-Tech works.
You wear this on your finger all day and it tracks your vitals.
Or if that's too embarrassing, there's also a Bluetooth suppository and that goes right where you think it goes.
And that comes with a retrieval kit.
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Reports to whom?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Apple doesn't have a long way to go...a simple addition of the ant+ protocol to there chipset and this is not-news. And measuring heart-rate...old-news. I've had a Garmin watch that has done this for almost a decade.
It's not insurance if everyone is "insured"
Wait, what? I suppose it's not housing if everyone is "housed", and it's not food if everyone is "fed" as well?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The comments in the summary "Samsung phones now support direct connections to heart rate straps using the Ant+ protocol as well as through Bluetooth. Apple and others have a long way to go to catch up." imply that Apple does not support third-party heart-rate sensors. The opposite is true. Apple has supported third-party heart-rate sensors for a while; see, for example:
http://www.heartratemonitorsus...
My former phone was a Galaxy S3. When I went hunting for heart rate sensors about 1.5 years ago, I could find plenty of heart-rate sensors that supported iphones, but none for Android. A newer release of Android (4.3, IIRC) got support for Bluetooth heart-rate monitors.
I'd rather have the FM radio back, thanks.
No, then it becomes the sensible thing to do.
Only in America would people defend the idea that if you're too poor to pay for health care you deserve to die.
I think smartphones are really just grasping at straws now. Most people, including me, just want to text, talk and maybe do email or Facebook and take quick pictures once in a while. For the once advanced but now basic tasks that 99% of cell users do now, these devices are basically like using a flame thrower to light a cigar. I probably use about 1/5 the horsepower of my current HTC One and the thing sucks battery like a leech.
The next big thing in smart phones will probably be the $99-$250 phones that have a decent enough screen and just enough ram and CPU for text, talk, music, email and the occasional netflix. The Lumia 520 is an example of such a phone. Paying $500+ (retail unsubsidised) for a phone is stupid and wont last much longer.
No, then it becomes the sensible thing to do.
Only in America would people defend the idea that if you're too poor to pay for health care you deserve to die.
Everyone dies. Pretending otherwise is childish. Turning that into some anti-US rant is, at best, name-calling and lends you the intellectual depth of an August puddle in a dilapidated Florida strip mall.
The question is how to allocate limited healthcare resources.
Given the games we've seen the VA play in performing just that, how can you make a claim government-controlled health care is BETTER? It's just using different criteria - bureaucratic whim - to deny care. Which is exactly how any government-run health care system rations care.
People are going to get screwed and die either way. Why is dying at the hands of an uncaring government bureaucrat any different from dying at the hands of an uncaring insurance flunky? Neither one gives a damn about you, they only care about their numbers.
So, the real application of this monitor is to train yourself to beat a polygraph test, right?
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It's simple. If you have not succeeded in life, and are not rich, you do not deserve to live. People need to lift themselves up by their own bootstraps and provide for themselves. The minute you stop providing for yourself is the minute you become a drain on society and deserve to die.
How accurate are the heart rates you get from the flash/camera apps? I have been using them for a while now and, while not instantaneous, they do seem to be a good measure of my heart rate. I'm not sure I'd care about anything more accurate... +/- 10% is fine. After all you can change your heart rate by 10% just by releasing your breath slowly.
Fox news running Dice now?
That may be true at very high levels of training, but the other 99.999999% of us that work out for endurance sports (read: 7+ hours of weights/swimming/cycling/running per week) only need to measure our resting heart rate in the morning every morning to determine that. No need for a heart-rate monitor.
Everyone dies. Pretending otherwise is childish. Turning that into some anti-US rant is, at best, name-calling and lends you the intellectual depth of an August puddle in a dilapidated Florida strip mall.
The question is how to allocate limited healthcare resources.
While everyone goes into their favorite political mode, the health care system was teetering under it's own weight. Contrary to popular opinion, many of the uninsured in the US are not denied healthcare, nor do they just die because they are poor or uninsured.
In fact, they get some of the best, and definitely the most expensive healthcare in the world.
Since they do not have GP's they go to Emergency rooms. For some pretty simple stuff at times, but there isn't much choice.
During the runup to my father's demise, he made some trips to the Emergency room at our local hospital. Most of the patients in there, were obviously poor, often coming in for something their baby needed, or an infection or cold. All three of the visits, most which lasted the better part of a day, there were just not that many actual emergencies.
I'd mentioned that to the ER doctor, and he told me That's how the poor get healthcare. Further discussion noted the great expense and how it was just getting sent up the food chain.
So yeah, that's how we get 50 dollar band aids.
Coupled with the huge expenses of people in their last years of life (my demented Mother in law racked up around 600 K in her last two years) the system was getting creaky.
The next problem was that the insurance rates were in a positive feedback loop. As the rte increases were kicking more and more people off the ranks of the insured (my SO's work had health insurance costs double three separate times in a one year period) it is very obvious - or should be - to even the most politically fixated observer that the system was going to come apart at the seams.
Since it is morally and ethically repugnant to just tell a person they have to die because they can't afford simple inexpensive medicine, they get treated. Then as the insured pool continues to shrink, eventually almost everyone is uninsured, only the very wealtiest have health insurance, and they would be faced with the equally repugnant task of funding everyone elses healthcare.
Sony phones have had ANT+ built in for quite a while. I'm sure they'd be surprised to hear that they have a long way to catch up.
I've been able to take my heartrate on my iPhone 4 for a long time using the camera and the flash. The HR apps are plentiful and free. I haven't seen any evidence that the S5's HR monitor is, in fact, any better than that low-tech solution, or actually even reliable at all. Most of the reviews I read when it came out said that the HR monitor was clumsy and never actually terribly accurate. So maybe it's reporting variability in your heart rate, but it may just be reporting variability in the phone's ability to detect your heart rate.
And, of course, third party HR straps have been available for iPhones for a while. I'd like to see them add an ANT+ sensor into the iPhone because I'm a cyclist and have ANT+ gear already, but if I went insane and wanted to use my expensive phone as a cheap bike computer, I could've bought an HR monitor without any problems.
Give it a fucking rest you unoriginal dipshit.
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>Only in America would people defend the idea that if you're too poor to pay for health care you deserve to die.
It's only our worthless conservatives that have that kind of attitude. Normal, modern Americans tend to have a lot of compassion for our fellow man, as seen in the passage of the Affordable Care Act. If not for these awful conservatives, we could have done even better and set up a single-payer system like all the other western nations have. We don't have to be the west's dumb cousin, all we have to do is get smart people out to vote to offset the stupid people that vote based on their superstitions.
We're unfortunately more like Pakistan than western-Europe, with our rural areas filled with ignorant, superstitious, violent, gun-fondling nitwits just like Pakistan's tribal areas.
I own an HRV sensor from HeartMath which I have used to measure heart coherence during meditation. It's rather cumbersome because I have to plug it into my computer. I know they make handheld versions as well, but the phone version could be really convenient. As human beings we are generally very poor at determining our own stress levels. It's too bad this isn't getting any attention. A lot of people could greatly benefit from a bit of bio-feedback from their heart.
I could hack together something similar using public sources of information over the weekend. Apple and others will put this feature on their phones the instant they decide they want to.