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The Duxbury Fire Department in Duxbury, Massachusetts, will be outfitting its firefighters with biometric Oura rings to monitor their health during the COVID-19 pandemic. The NBA has made the rings available to basketball players in the league’s bubble in Orlando, although Duxbury is the first fire department to take advantage of the new technology. “I […]
After much speculation, a new rumor suggests that Apple is finally ready to bring biometric capabilities to its AirPod line of products. The next generation is expected to arrive in the second half of 2021, and could include a heart rate monitor in addition to other sensors. Apple has tacitly hinted at the possibility of […]
The 48th Fighter Wing division of the U.S. Air Force that operates out of Royal Air Force Lakenheath in the United Kingdom has issued a request for information (RFI) concerning plans to outfit its aircrews with a wrist-worn biometric device capable of measuring and capturing data about the wearer’s health. The 48th Wing aims to […]
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and it’s European tour partner the Ladies European Tour (LET) have announced that in an effort to help ensure the safe return to play they will be using the WHOOP biometric smart band to track the vitals of players and personnel on tour. The two organizations will secure over […]
Apple has further refined the fitness tracking capabilities of its Apple Watch devices, announcing upgrades at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference for 2020. Apple’s latest smartwatches already support relatively advanced biometric capabilities, thanks in large part to the ECG monitor first implemented with the Apple Watch Series 4. Some of the new capabilities arriving through […]
According to a memo sent out by the National Basketball Players Association to the players union and obtained by The Athletic, players will have the option to wear the biometric sensor-laden Oura ring when the 2019-2020 NBA season resumes play at the end of next month in Orlando, Florida. The NBA season was suspended due […]
A team of researchers announced recently that by analyzing biometric data from a wearable device, they believe they can detect the onset of the COVID-19 virus’ symptoms in seemingly healthy individuals as much as three days in advance. As TechCrunch reports, the study was conducted by researchers from the West Virginia University (WVU), Rockefeller Neuroscience […]
Microsoft has applied for a patent for a set of headphones with built-in biometric fingerprint recognition. According to the patent, the fingerprint scanner would be placed somewhere on the surface of the headphones, with the ear cups standing as one of the more likely possibilities. Consumers would be able to use the fingerprint reader to […]
A team of researchers led by Canada’s University of Regina that have been using biometric clothing in a study on the mental health of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers for the past three years has received a federal grant worth almost $1 million ($989,925) CDN, and are hoping to expand the study to include […]
Medopad is shaking things up with a corporate rebrand and two new major acquisitions. The remote patient monitoring specialist will henceforth be known as Huma, and it will also be diversifying its portfolio after bringing BioBeats and Tarilian Laser Technologies (TLT) in-house. Huma (as Medopad) was founded in 2011, and has primarily focused on remote […]
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