Wrist-worn heart rate monitoring devices have come a long way in the past few years, and for most people they now offer a genuinely convenient alternative to chest straps. The best wrist heart rate ...

Before you decide to click away, thinking we’re talking about some heart rate monitor that connects to a display using WiFi, wait! Pulse-Fi is a system that monitors heart rate using the WiFi signal ...

Smartwatches are now much more than just fitness trackers. Besides logging your workouts, the best ones can also monitor your wellness, show notifications from your phone, and let you answer calls, ...

A heart rate monitor may be the key to unlocking your fitness goals. That’s because heart rate is a reliable indicator of your exercise input—it reflects the effort applied to every workout. Keeping ...

The MAX30105 is an optical sensor capable of a great many things. It can sense particulate matter in the air, or pick up the blinking of an eye. Or, you can use it as a rudimentary way to measure your ...

The domain of wearable devices has grown by leaps and bounds, not just in terms of mass adoption, but also owing to some astounding innovations. Wearable heart rate sensors can now measure everything ...

The introduction of smartwatches has made heart rate monitoring a regular occurrence of our lives, as we only have to look at ...

This simple circuit enables you to listen to your heartbeat, for instance, while you are exercising. The transducer used for detecting the pulse is an electret microphone, X1 in the diagram. The model ...

"I'm a registered nurse, and I thought there could be a way to obtained three vital signs in one easy step," said an inventor, from Romeoville, Ill., "so I invented the FINGER BLOOD PRESSURE, PULSE, ...

Your Fitbit's HRV reading can offer clues about stress and recovery, but your usual numbers matter more than anyone else's.

Researchers have developed a flexible iontronic pressure sensor combining microdome structures and spherical boron nitride to ...