Mar 27
As visualizations go, this is a simple one: it simply shows the heartbeats of Jen Lowe from the last 24 hours, gently pulsing as a big, bold, red screen. And it is insanely mesmerizing.
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Feb 21
Buh-bum. Buh-bum. Buh-bum. We all have our own interpretations of what a heartbeat sounds like but here is what it looks like during heart surgery. It looks like it’s rolling in place inside your chest. Pretty amazing.
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Feb 08
Have you ever wondered how many heartbeats an average person has in their lifetime? What about for cats or dogs or other animals? Turns out because of metabolic rates and size of different species, each animal gets around a billion beats. More »
Oct 26
Researchers create video game that monitors heart rate to keep children’s anger in check
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Nintendo may have left its Vitality Sensor by the wayside, but researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital are using heart rate monitoring in a video game to teach children with anger issues how to temper their emotions. Dubbed RAGE (Regulate and Gain Emotional) Control, the game tasks players with blasting hostile spaceships while keeping their heart rate from exceeding a predefined limit. If a gamer’s pulse rises above the ceiling, they’ll lose the ability to shoot until they can ease their pulse back down. A group of 18 kids who received standard treatments and played the game for five, 15-minute-long sessions had better control of their heart rate and lower anger levels than a group that only used traditional treatments. Currently, a controlled clinical trial of RAGE Control is underway and there are plans to take the concept a step further with toys and games suited for younger children. Look out below for the full press release or tap the second source link for the team’s paper in the Journal of Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Oct 04
Your pet dog or pet cat will definitely be able to recognize your presence when you come home after a long day at work, but can your cold-hearted computing devices do so? Not quite yet, although there seems to be advancements made in this aspect where one’s gadgets can identify the correct users through the measuring of one’s heartbeats via fingertips. The heartbeat ID will be embedded into a phone or tablet, meaning unauthorized users will be locked out and there is no amount of brute force hacking that will unlock said device, in theory, at least.
Foteini Agrafioti, an engineer at the University of Toronto, said of his technology developed by Bionym, “ECG biometrics identifies people by their cardiac rhythm.Not just their heart rate, but the actual shape of their heartbeat.”
After having read all of the above, perhaps the French Central Bank might want to look into introducing such a system in select parts of their security setup instead of just falling back on “123456” as their password, no?
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