Do you think it possible to make smartphones into body temperature thermometers?
I currently have an iOS app that measures heart rate with the light/flash while you put your finger over the camera. The camera measures your pulse by reading the difference in "color" or "density" of your blood reflecting into the camera as your Harry beats.
It's not medical grade in accuracy but holds up well in comparison with the heart rate testers at the local grocery store or manual pulse counting.
My rough estimate is this method is accurate to a few percentage points of a real medical device.
For those iOS and Android developers — would it be possible to detect body temperature to accuracy levels of that of a thermometer ( +/- 0.1 degrees ) using this battery method they are using for the weather?
It would be nice to check your temperature without the need for external hardware. Though even external hardware could be a great device, checking pulse, pressure, temp, and storing all data for historical analytics. Add in that you could compare that data worldwide and flu estimations may become possible. At least outbreak areas should be able to be narrowed somewhat. There's a ton of other data that could be gathered too. Just mapping outbreaks would be interesting to see how seasonal ailments migrate. Even allergies could be mapped.
I currently have an iOS app that measures heart rate with the light/flash while you put your finger over the camera. The camera measures your pulse by reading the difference in "color" or "density" of your blood reflecting into the camera as your Harry beats.
It's not medical grade in accuracy but holds up well in comparison with the heart rate testers at the local grocery store or manual pulse counting.
My rough estimate is this method is accurate to a few percentage points of a real medical device.
For those iOS and Android developers — would it be possible to detect body temperature to accuracy levels of that of a thermometer ( +/- 0.1 degrees ) using this battery method they are using for the weather?
It would be nice to check your temperature without the need for external hardware. Though even external hardware could be a great device, checking pulse, pressure, temp, and storing all data for historical analytics. Add in that you could compare that data worldwide and flu estimations may become possible. At least outbreak areas should be able to be narrowed somewhat. There's a ton of other data that could be gathered too. Just mapping outbreaks would be interesting to see how seasonal ailments migrate. Even allergies could be mapped.
Thoughts?