sew one into your mask with an LED readout so everyone can see your spO2, heart rate and temperature?
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11050 (just hold this one under your tongue) while masked? On 4/23/20 8:59 PM, cody dooderson wrote: > If anyone needs an idea for a microbit project here is > one, https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15271 . > > > > Cody Smith > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:39 PM Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com > <mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote: > > Merle, et al - > > Interesting article... > >> We’ve had two life-threatening incidents, one trekking in Nepal >> and the other in a remote part of Sri Lanka, where the >> availability of a pulse oximeter made all the difference. We now >> routinely check our oxygenation with one. >> >> Ed > > I have had some experience with a mountaineering spO2 meter and a > Withings fitness monitor with built in spO2... the fitness monitor > required removing the unit from the band and holding it diligently > against the pad of a finger, and that didn't always give a good > reading, but once I understood it's idiosyncracies it wasn't bad. > both devices are long-since nonfunctional (not to be worn swimming > or in the shower it seems). > > It seems like IOT wearables (already saturating the market for > fitness applications) like my Withings could be getting better. > Maybe even good-enough to be useful in > predicting/monitoring/tracking COVID19 symptoms/onset, at least > statistically... > > There is some precedent with the Kinsa effort to use their IOT > thermometer data to predict abnormal levels of influenza-like > symptoms <https://healthweather.us/?mode=Atypical>. > > There seem to be a number of pulse-oximeter fitness trackers. > > https://3dinsider.com/pulse-oximeter-fitness-trackers/ > > The Oura ring <https://ouraring.com/ucsf-tempredict-study>'s body > temperature sensing has already been pressed into service for a > study. I don't know if the "band" form factor is able to maintain > good enough skin-contact to be consistent... > > I just did a search on the topic > > <https://www.google.com/search?q=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&oq=fitness+activity+tracker+covid&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.6879j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8> > and found a number of speculative popular articles on the topic, > but haven't had time to dig through them. > > This was one of the more promising: > > > https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/europe/fitbits-new-coronavirus-feature-can-connect-users-telemedicine-services-indoor-work-out > > Our own Mohammed El-Beltagy (cc;ed here) is CTO for a Swedish > company (RaceFox <https://www.racefox.com/en/home>) doing using > fitness monitors for athletic performance enhancement. He may be > more up on the possibilities? > > - Steve > >> _______________________ >> >> Ed Angel >> >> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science >> Laboratory (ARTS Lab) >> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico >> >> 1017 Sierra Pinon >> Santa Fe, NM 87501 >> 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> >> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel >> >>> On Apr 23, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org >>> <mailto:r...@elf.org>> wrote: >>> >>> I found it credible. We're adding a pulse oximeter to the kit. >>> >>> There was another >>> report, >>> https://meaww.com/six-austrian-divers-permanently-damaged-lungs-recovery-mild-coronavirus-covid-19. >>> scuba >>> divers recovered from mild covid infection and ended up with >>> lungs so damaged that it is not safe for them to dive anymore. >>> So many people with less demanding pastimes may be in a similar >>> way but not manifesting the problem, though a dive safety exam >>> would turn it up, and maybe a pulse oximeter, too. >>> >>> I wonder if any of those cell phone pulsimeters could be >>> upgraded to oximeters with some calibration? >>> >>> -- rec -- >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:32 PM Merle Lefkoff >>> <merlelefk...@gmail.com <mailto:merlelefk...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Has the list read this article in the NYTimes. 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