Cardiio has launched their first, much anticipated, biosensor that uses an iPhone or iPad camera to provide touch free heart rate measurements and related health predictions.
The app, priced at $4.99, is beautiful, intuitive, and claims to accurately assess resting heart rate to within three beats per minute of standard medical pulse monitors.
Cardiio and its PhD Co-Founders Ming-Zher Poh and Yukkee Poh spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, where the core technology was developed and published in multiple peer reviewed journals (see here, here, andhere). Cardiio is also a recent graduate of the digital health acceleator Rock Health.
While Cardiio’s technology is based on validated, cutting edge research–the application itself is deceptively simple and elegant to use. You literally place your face within a red circle on a stethoscope image, enjoy a few seconds of quotes celebrating science or childhood rhymes, and then receive your heart rate reading.
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