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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): Found Footage: iPhone app monitors your heart rate
Gizmodo: iPhone Heart Monitor Tracks Your Heart Beat Unless You Are Dead [IPhone]
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: iPhone heart monitor is a creative way to use iPhone sensors
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: iPhone heart monitor is a creative way to use iPhone sensors
Found Footage: iPhone app monitors your heart rate
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Found Footage A new iPhone application, currently awaiting approval from Apple, will monitor your heart rate via the built-in microphone (through either the onboard mic on the iPhone or through the mic/headset combo). The developer has released the above video demonstration. In addition to monitoring your heart rate using the microphone, you can also count your bpm (beats per minute) using the voice prompts. The application then stores your heart rate for later reference. We can't wait to see this application hit the app ...
iPhone Heart Monitor Tracks Your Heart Beat Unless You Are Dead [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
Here's a really cool application for the iPhone: Heart Monitor uses the iPhone microphones—specially the one built in your headphones—to record and track your heartbeat from your chest, wrist or neck. Watching the video, it looks like it will be a perfect application for both sports people and hypochondriacs, even while it comes with a couple of disclaimers: Before buying Heart Monitor please make sure you can find your own pulse in your neck (directly below your jaw) or wrist, click arrows below the pictures for pulse locations. If you cannot find your pulse you may have ...
iPhone Heart Monitor Tracks Your Heartbeat Unless You Are Dead [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
Here's a really cool application for the iPhone: Heart Monitor uses the iPhone microphone—especially the one built into your headphones—to record and track your heartbeat from your chest, wrist or neck. Watching the video, it looks like it will be a perfect application for both sports people and hypochondriacs, even while it comes with a couple of disclaimers: Before buying Heart Monitor please make sure you can find your own pulse in your neck (directly below your jaw) or wrist, click arrows below the pictures for pulse locations. If you cannot find your pulse you may have ...
iPhone heart monitor is a creative way to use iPhone sensors
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
This one belongs in the "what will they think of next category". Some enterprising programmers managed to make a heart monitor out of the microphone in the iPhone headset.
While this is a cool idea and fun for most, we wouldn't recommend it just yet for those with heart conditions.
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iPhone heart monitor is a creative way to use iPhone sensors
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
This one belongs in the "what will they think of next category". Some enterprising programmers managed to make a heart monitor out of the microphone in the iPhone headset.
While this is a cool idea and fun for most, we wouldn't recommend it just yet for those with heart conditions.
...
iPhone MD: Heart Monitor
iSmashPhone —
John Ballinger has developed Heart Monitor (App Store; $4.99), an App which makes use of the iPhone's microphone capabilities to detect heart rate.
Ballinger's demonstration of Heart Monitor: iPhone App - Heart Monitor from John Ballinger on Vimeo.
This App is not meant to replace an actual heart rate monitor
but if used correctly (read: in a quiet environment and placed
correctly on the body), Heart Monitor can be a useful tool, especially
for athletes in training.
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