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Monitoring what's going on in your body has gripped California's Silicon Valley like a mania.
Enthusiasts wear two or three wrist bands to keep an eye on their blood pressure 24 hours a day.
They use sensors to tell them how many paces they have taken - the recommended daily rate is currently 10,000, I think. That's about five miles.
And up and down the valley, new companies are rushing to get a piece of the action. They are matching body measuring devices to the smartphone, to produce a torrent of data that may or may not be useful to doctors and specialists, if they have the time to deal with it. There are dozens of such entrepreneurial start-ups, maybe hundreds.
It is happening because only very recently have people become permanently connected to the internet in this always-on, display-rich way. Mobile technology is seemingly reordering our relationship with ourselves, as well as the outside world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28756059
Enthusiasts wear two or three wrist bands to keep an eye on their blood pressure 24 hours a day.
They use sensors to tell them how many paces they have taken - the recommended daily rate is currently 10,000, I think. That's about five miles.
And up and down the valley, new companies are rushing to get a piece of the action. They are matching body measuring devices to the smartphone, to produce a torrent of data that may or may not be useful to doctors and specialists, if they have the time to deal with it. There are dozens of such entrepreneurial start-ups, maybe hundreds.
It is happening because only very recently have people become permanently connected to the internet in this always-on, display-rich way. Mobile technology is seemingly reordering our relationship with ourselves, as well as the outside world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28756059