Your vital signs, on camera
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
You can check a persons vital signs -- pulse, respiration and blood pressure -- manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is working on a system that could measure these health indicators just by putting a person in front of a low-cost camera such as a laptop computers built-in webcam.