This document contains summaries of various health tracking devices and apps presented at a Quantified Self conference on September 13, 2013. It describes devices that measure sleep tracking, heart rate, posture, stress, eye health, and more. It also mentions the Quantified Self Global Conference in October 2013 and seeks a Health 2.0 chapter co-head. Various references and resources are provided at the end about quantified self sensors, life logging, and the digital health revolution.

1. (Not) All Quiet on the
Eastern Front
Luca Foschini
A report from QS Europe
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2. “A professional poker player,
a researcher in financial
mathematics,
a biotechnologist,
and this guy
walk into a bar...”
(in Amsterdam)
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3. What did you do?
How did you do it?
What did you learn?
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4. Check (my level) This upcoming measurement system scores
how ready to exercise you are. It’s a combined finger and wrist
measurement that uses low-level TENS to stimulate muscle
contractions and measure response characteristics.
Arterial stiffness -Arterial stiffness is an under-appreciated and
under-measured independent risk factor for heart disease. If
your arteries become stiff then they lose some of their ability
to dilate.When the heart contracts, blood will flow more
rapidly through them, which can damage the endothelial lining
over time.
Rapid response Strept-A Test Kit – A large percentage of
doctor visits could be avoided by using this at-home strep
diagnostic test.
Piddle – An iPhone app that works in conjunction with
urinalysis test strips to help you accurately extract health info.
Ucheck – Another urinalysis assistant for the iPhone.
Tinke – A device for the iPhone that measures heart rate,
heart rate variability, blood oxygenation, and respiratory rate,
when you touch and hold your thumb to it.
Adapted from: BiohackYourself [Winslow Strong]
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5. ToucHb – An upcoming stand-alone device to help detect anemia.
Beddit – An on-the-bed sleep tracking device that purports to be so
sensitive that it can capture individual heartbeats through the
vibrations on your mattress, and separate these out from your
breaths.
emWave2 and InnerBalance for heart rate variability biofeedback
(audio and/or visual).
Alivecor – A clinically accurate ECG monitor for use with an iPhone.
Scout (by Scanadu) – A sensor that when held up to the forehead will
measure temperature and apparently some other vitals also.
Netra smartphone eye test – Diagnose the most common refractive
eye disorders with your smart phone: myopia (nearsightedness),
hypermetropia (farsightedness), astigmatism, and presbyopia (age-
related visual impairment).
Muse – This is the first consumer EEG that I will try.You can order
now, but shipments won’t occur until the end of the year.
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6. TrueSense wearable bio-sensor kit. It is “the first affordable, ultra-compact, ultra-
low-power, bio-signal acquisition kit that allows bio-signal capturing anywhere, any
time and on multiple body locations.” Costs $46 and it’s OpenSource!
• It can track: brainwaves, heart-rate (and deduce breath-rate from that), muscle
tension, movement, posture and electro smog.
• Both real-time (using wifi) or as a logger (it can store at least 11 hours).
• You get the full spectrum of waves. It is raw data, not ‘cleaned’. So you yourself can separate
muscle movement from brainwaves for example.
• You can use several of them on different places on your body.
Adapted from:Tools for Awareness
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7. • Lumoback wearable posture sensor and mobile app to support your back health
• Poikos to make a 3D image of your body with your smartphone
• LifeSlice for capturing webcam images of your face and screenshots.
• Empatica for real-time stress measurement in teams.
• Memoto, a life logging device which was discussed in a broad discussion.
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8. Ellis Bartholomeus took pictures of
everything she ate for three months
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9. Quantify self map
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10. Privacy
Open Data
Visualization
API
And a lot more!
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11. Privacy
Open Data
Visualization
API
And a lot more!
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12. QS meetup organizers meeting
Takeaways:
• Need an online place for discussion
• Need to document and make talks available
•Talks on creating a magazine
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13. Myfitnesspal api call
“By 2018, 485,000,000 wearable computing
devices will ship globally, including smart watches
and smart clothing, according to ABI Research.”
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14. Quantified Self
Global Conference
October 10-11 2013
San Francisco
Meetup Members get $200 off the
regular tickets ($499)!
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15. Help wanted: Health 2.0 chapter co-head!
“Health 2.0 promotes, showcases and catalyzes new technologies
in health care.We do this through a worldwide series of conferences,
code-a-thons, prize challenges, and more.We also have the leading
market intelligence on new health technology companies.”
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16. Other References:
• http://www.scoop.it/t/quantified-self-sensors
• http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2013/05/11/dont-life-log-me-quantified-self-2013-in-amsterdam/
• http://bionic.ly/2013/03/10-sensor-innovations-driving-the-digital-health-revolution/
• http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/05/10/the-missing-trackers/
• http://quantifiedself.com/2013/05/the-2013-quantified-self-europe-conference-roundup/
• http://biohackyourself.com/quantified-self-europe-2013/
• http://technori.com/2013/05/4566-5-takeaways-quantified-self-conference/
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