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You can check a person's vital signs — pulse, respiration and blood pressure — manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is working on a system that could measure these health indicators just by putting a person in front of a low-cost camera such as a laptop computer's built-in webcam.

Video: Melanie Gonick

Read more at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/pulse-camera-1004.html

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  • An iOS app is just available with similar function here: Magic heartbeat mirror. It is cool that I could play on my iphone4. Search "magic hearbeat mirror" in appstore to find it.

  • Where can I download the software? Can anyone email it to me?

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  • wow.. i want that mirror too. love it

  • @magician20125 Is it available on the android market?

  • ''Today: You look like shit.''

  • The presented technology is not new. A more advanced motion robust heart rate camera has been already used for training of dutch swimmers:

    Procedia Engineering

    Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 2693-2699

    The Engineering of Sport 8 - Engineering Emotion

  • Brilliant!

  • i guess that's some sort of neuron system. they just trained it a lot.

  • @DanielPLong I am as shocked as you are =O

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