Body Sensing comes to Smartphones -- by Steve Lohr:
Sensor technology has become smaller, lighter and more powerful. At the same time, more attention is being paid to preventive health and personal fitness as an answer to the nation’s rising medical bills.
A result, for sensor companies like BodyMedia, is an opportunity to marry body sensors to smartphones to create full-body monitors. Last week, BodyMedia announced that its armband sensors would be able to communicate with smartphones, wirelessly, using Bluetooth. Its health sensors will be one of the first devices, other than ear buds, that link to smartphones with Bluetooth short-range communications.
The company seems to be ahead of its times... but with the recent positioning as a health care product, and its forthcoming apps for smartphones... the time seems to be catching up to the company?
-- Animikh
