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WearDuino Uses Arduinos to Make Wearable Medical Sensors (Video)
WearDuino, now being developed by PDX Wearable Health Lab, is the brainchild of Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD; "an experimenter, maker, mentor and consultant in wearable health technologies, drawing on his lifelong experience in the fields of engineering and medicine." The WearDuino, he says, "is an open source wearable wireless sensor." The prototype fits in a FitBit case because, according to Dr. Leavitt, there are millions of unused ones out there, both surplussed by people who bought Fitbits and then stopped using them, and in the form of aftermarket cases sold to make your Fitbit cuter than when it came from the factory. In any case, WearDuino is still in the prototype stage. Dr. Leavitt plans to look for funding through Crowd Supply, but isn't "there" yet, so if you want to get on board with this health wearables project, you'll want to sign up for their Google Group or follow them on Twitter. You might also want to check out Quantified Self (tag line: "self knowledge through numbers"), and even if you vastly prefer videos to text articles, check out the text transcript ("Show/Hide Transcript") attached to this article, because it contains nearly twice as much information as the video, and goes a little deeper than the video into Dr. Leavitt's reasons for building the WearDuino -- none of which are financial gain, believe it or not.
So what... LilyPad Arduino ain't good enough for ya?
Because we don't spend enough time looking at our phones as it is. [Obviously, that doesn't apply to people need to quantify themselves in various ways due disease, etc. But JTFC, do you really need to track your steps at a music festival? Most of them were probably just you twirling in a circle while on e.]
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Quantified selfers is going to be the next decade's driver of hypochondriacs they way that the internet and medical forums drove hypochondria in the 2000's. No doctor will believe anything your sensor says, and quite frankly biology is such a complex, integrated system that boiling it down to a handful of numbers is simply too impractical to tell you anything concrete.
Sensors and data are only useful when they're actionable, and frankly even including the Fitbit or many other types of these sensors I have yet to see any of these that can translate something into a useful, actionable lifestyle change leading to better health.
And even if these sensors ever have some level of intelligence behind them to provide actionable items that can improve health, 9 times out of 10 it'll be exercise more, eat healthier, don't eat junk food. No one needs a QS sensor to understand that.
A video. On Slashdot. And I watched all of it.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Do you think I could hook six of those up together in a Beowulf cluster? I want to attach them to my johnson.
"Man, that Beowulf cluster is fast" "Yeah, it's deep, too."
You are welcome on my lawn.
Where is the git if it's open?
What a press bs load
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