Google wants to transform your bathroom
into a high-tech area for monitoring your
cardiovascular health. US Patent and Trademark Office A Google patent
published Thursday outlines embedding sensors into different
parts of the bathroom, like the toilet seat
and bath mat, to measure how healthy
your heart is. For example, the sensors in
the bath mat could record your heart beat
by measuring your body's electrical behavior. The patent also outlines
putting a camera
in the bathroom mirror to measure skin
color variations, and creating an
"ultrasonic bathtub" that could generate
high-frequency waves to perform an echo
test. Google claims in its patent that the
different techniques would "provide
substantially more valuable (or at least
different) data of a person's health that
those provided in a medical office or
hospital."
into a high-tech area for monitoring your
cardiovascular health. US Patent and Trademark Office A Google patent
published Thursday outlines embedding sensors into different
parts of the bathroom, like the toilet seat
and bath mat, to measure how healthy
your heart is. For example, the sensors in
the bath mat could record your heart beat
by measuring your body's electrical behavior. The patent also outlines
putting a camera
in the bathroom mirror to measure skin
color variations, and creating an
"ultrasonic bathtub" that could generate
high-frequency waves to perform an echo
test. Google claims in its patent that the
different techniques would "provide
substantially more valuable (or at least
different) data of a person's health that
those provided in a medical office or
hospital."
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