Heart Rate Monitor Blog Archives
This blog remained active for only a short
period. Here is an archive of postings. (For more information on heart rate
monitors please see my
Personal Health Monitor Blog.)
Suunto T-6
Thank you to Tyler of Niche
Partners for alerting me to an innovative new heart rate monitor, the
T-6 by Suunto. I
hope to have a fuller report soon.
January 13th, 2006
Affordable
Luxuries
Forbes
magazine has published a list of “affordable
luxuries” – goods or services costing less than $200 – for getting fit.
According to the report:
You
don't need to be wealthy to get healthy. In an age where gym memberships
cost hundreds of dollars per year, personal trainers around $100 an hour and
state-of-the-art exercise equipment in the thousands, it might strike some
readers as unrealistic that $200 will have much impact. Allow us to demure.
[The writer presumably means “demur”.]
Among the
items selected:
Polar F11 heart rate monitor
-
…which
not only monitors heart rates but also creates its own workout program that
tells wearers how much they need to exercise to reach their goals. A
suntanned personal trainer with rock-hard abs can do the same thing, but the
F11 only costs $159.
January 5th,
2006
New Biosensor Chip Will Bring in New
Kinds of Heart Rate Monitor
North American company PulseTracer Technologies has announced the
development of a new biosensor chip that reads heart rate and footstep
activity from contact with the wrist only.
According to a company announcement:
Designed to fit devices such as wrist watches, jewelry bracelets, and
band mounted Mp3 players, the PT100 sensor measures, stores, and correlates
heart rate with step counts over time for periods up to one month. Data may
be uploaded to computer or internet via USB or wireless connection for long
term storage, graphical reporting, and health progress assessment directly
by the user or in conjunction with a health or fitness professional.
PulseTracer is working with doctors at a major healthcare institute to
provide testing and real time life score reporting which automatically
adjust to an individual's own relative health state, providing practical
recommendations for wellness and activity improvements at their level.
PulseTracer is working with internationally-recognized companies in the
watch, jewelry, and medical monitoring arena that are preparing to make the
technology available in 2006 within a range of products.
December 29th, 2005 |
