RE: Meditech: project key concepts

e14 Contributor — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:04:30 GMT

This is a future device that really deserves the investigation to bring into existence. Everything starts simple and becomes more feature rich over time, so designing a unit with relatively few diagnostic capabilities is a step in the right direction. Do you have any ideas yet on the specific biometrics you want to gather? Personally, getting accurate measurements from a small range of sensors would be preferable to incorporating as many sensors as possible but not having the time or resources to get them all to work or produce accurate results and feedback.

You really do have a difficult path ahead of you, and I think research and testing is likely to be the key to this project.

I've had one or two thoughts on how I'd try and approach the biometric sensing aspect. Many sensors come with some kind of emitter. Ie. IR distance finders emit infrared light and then sense it as it bounces back, the same goes for ultrasound, metal detectors etc.. My thoughts are whether the effects of one source of emission can change the bodies natural emission of a different source.

For example, would sending ultrasound waves into living biological tissues cause any changes in the electromagnetic fields that it naturally produces, and could that change show a healthy reaction or a potential health problem.

You could so do with a flir lepton sensor for visually monitoring temperatures [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-4fe6344f-3d5a-4a25-bf1e-3d7519b5c9ee/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

Best of luck

Lucie

RE: Meditech: project key concepts

clem57 — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:33:24 GMT

What a great idea. Cannot wait to see this developed.

Clem