You wouldn’t expect GPS tech to have an impact on asthma research, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s David Van Sickle says it will — he’s planning on tagging sufferers so he can learn when and where they reach for their inhalers. The data will hopefully make sorting out environmental triggers of the disease much easier — it took scientists eight years to prove that soybean dust near the Barcelona harbor caused a massive asthma outbreak in the 80s, a timeline that might have been dramatically shorter if location information had been available from the start. The plan’s still in the early stages, but would-be participants can sign up already — let’s just hope the tracker is slightly more attractive than Kogan’s enormous watch unit.
[Via CNET]
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