Live
- Kejriwal writes to HM Shah on law and order, seeks urgent meeting
- Big e-commerce firms to adopt Safety Pledge on National Consumer Day
- Cop ends life over torture by wife, father-in-law in Bengaluru
- Indian Constitution longest and most beautiful, Kiren Rijiju lauds its inclusive character
- BSNL's Rs 333 Plan Challenges Airtel and Jio with 1300GB Data: Details
- PM Modi's appeal to buy Khadi garments leads to huge demand in Bihar's Samastipur
- Mohammad Amir announces retirement from international cricket
- Chandrababu supports One Nation, One Election System, says elections in 2029
- Cong not pursuing politics of vengeance: D. K. Shivakumar on Covid 'scam' FIR
- Mexican consulates to strengthen support for nationals in face of US deportation
Google working on medical grade fitness tracking wristband
Google has announced that it is working on a medical-grade fitness tracking wristband.
Google has announced that it is working on a medical-grade fitness tracking wristband.
.jpg)
According to the Verge, the device measures vitals like heart rate, pulse and skin temperature continuously and it will also measure external information like sun exposure.
The device is the product of Google X, the experimental group within the search giant that is responsible for projects including Google Glass, its driverless cars and Project Loon.
The device will not be available to general consumers. Instead, Google intends for the device to be used in clinical trials and prescribed to medical patients. This will help doctors tackle the problem of reliably tracking the health of their patients away from the hospital.
Consumer-grade fitness trackers do not offer the medical-grade accuracy and patients can be unreliable when it comes to reporting their own vitals.
Google X is already working has a number of medical projects. In 2014 the company announced that it was working on a contact lens that can monitor diabetes patients' glucose levels.
