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Check Your Glucose with a Turn of the Wrist: New Biometric Watches Use Light to Non-Invasively ...
2014-06-10 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
In 2 papers published in The Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Biomedical Optics Express, researchers from Netherlands and Israel describe 2 wearable devices that use changing patterns of scattered light to monitor biometrics. While one device tracks glucose concentration and dehydration levels, other monitors pulse. Glucose concentration is measured directly but noninvasively, and pulse monitoring is less sensitive to errors when while wearer is in motion. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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