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Music
12 Minutes Of iPod Lovin’ A Day Will Keep Your Heart Healthy
3:00PM Rosa Golijan | I’ve got a playlist that never fails to make my heart go boom-baboom-baboom just a bit faster. According to a study from the University of Belgrade, 12 minutes of that playlist a day might actually leave me healthier and happier. More »
Gadgets
Sony Has a Heart After All
10:00AM John Mahoney | Even if it’s this creepy, pulsating rig assembled from gutted Bravias, Walkmen and VAIO for a British football commercial. But where is all the blood? More »
Gadgets
Nike+iPod Patent Shows Heart Rate, Temperature and Hydration Monitors
6:30AM Jason Chen | The main complaints about the current Nike+ Gear aren’t that it doesn’t do a good job keeping track of how far you run, it’s that it doesn’t measure stuff like heart rate, body temperature and other factors runners care about. Nike hears you. Their latest patent for upcoming Nike+ gear expands on the current concept and features all kinds of sensors over a person’s body, even possibly adding a GPS receiver so you can automatically map out the path you took on your run. More »
Gadgets
VitalJacket: Heart Monitor And T-Shirt in One
9:38PM Gizmodo US Edition | Some of the same kind of health telemetry that the French army may be using could be yours in the new VitalJacket product. It’s a smart T-shirt with a built-in electrocardiogram monitor, designed for both medical diagnostics and sports fitness uses. It’s supposed to be less awkward than conventional devices, as well as more comfortable. The HWM200 version sends data on the wearer’s heart over a Bluetooth link to a phone or PDA, allowing real-time monitoring. The 100 version stores it on an SD card for later analysis on a PC and allows the wearer to define heart rate limits which trigger a vibration alarm in the shirt. Both editions are available for pre-order for around US$635. [Vitaljacket via Talk2myshirt] More »
Science
Universal ECG is World’s Smallest, Sedates Your Curiosity Anywhere
7:31PM Haroon Malik | DRE, the Louisville medical tech company, has just unleashed the world’s smallest ECG system. The compact device consists of the obligatory 12 leads and a small attachment that carries the necessary software for ECG interpretation. The Universal ECG hooks directly up to desktop PCs, laptops or Pocket PCs running Windows XP or 2000. More »
Phones
Monitor Heart Safety By Turning Your Mobile Into an ECG
7:08AM Jason Chen | Most of us would never need an electrocardiogram embedded into our mobile phones to monitor our hearts, but most of us aren’t recovering from a heart attack. For those people that are, this Swedish invention that turns any old mobile into a monitor that can automatically call a doctor or the hospital if your heart explodes is something they’d pay loads and loads of Swedish kronas for. Or meatballs. We think they’re pretty much interchangeable. [The Inquirer] More »
Music
Heart MP3 Players Lock Together With a Kiss, Lock Us Over Sickbag
11:22PM Gizmodo US Edition | These MP3 players grab on to every single lovey-dovey Valentine’s cliché: a separable pair of players for you and your other half, that look like kissing lovers when they’re stuck together in a cutesy heart shape. We don’t know where you can buy them, but we do know they’ve got touch controls, have 1GB memory each, cost the equivalent of $61 in China and are absolutely sick-makingly hideous. [Zol, New Launches] More »
Music
iPods Won’t Funk Pacemakers, Says FDA Report
11:59PM Gizmodo US Edition | The electromagnetic fields from iPods won’t interfere with cardiac pacemakers, says an FDA research team, contrary to last year’s rumours. After a whole bunch of experiments using saline-filled bags and sensitive coil detectors to simulate the effect of a variety iPods on the body, the researchers concluded “that no interference effects can occur in pacemakers exposed to the iPods we tested.” [Reuters] More »
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Man With Fake Heart Claims He’s Lost the Ability to Feel Emotions
1:30AM Adam Frucci | Peter Houghton takes his metaphors a bit too seriously. The first lifetime recipient of a Jarvik 2000 ventricular assist device (i.e. an artificial heart) is grateful for the fact that he’s, you know, alive, but thinks he’s lost his emotions since getting the fake ticker. Dude, your emotions come from your brain, not from your heart, despite what all that poetry you’ve been reading says. One theory about his newfound lack of feelings is that his brain isn’t meant to be getting a steady stream of blood, which the Jarvik 2000 gives him, and is instead optimized for short bursts of it, like a real heart provides. More »
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