Comprehensive Wearable Health Monitor
Swedish Invention: Multipurpose Sensor Monitors Blood & Sweat Source: KTH Royal Institute of Technology New Health Armband For Athletes and Patients KTH Royal Institute of Technology researchers in Stockholm, Sweden have invented a new health monitoring wearable that provides much more comprehensive overviews of the user's health. It does so by monitoring blood and sweat. The armband was developed partly in response to the Stockholm Marathon 2018 in which 1000 runners, 5% of the 20,000, were forced to quit because of the hot weather. This is a multifunctional measuring device that detects a number of conditions, including dehydration during a run to renal failure during kidney failure. More Functional and More Comprehensive Health Monitoring Most wearable monitors are limited in the information they can provide. To make the device's view more comprehensive,e KTH created multipurpose electrochemical sensors that can be embedded in a...