A Cheap Pair Of Headphones Can Accurately Measure Your Heart Rate

[everything count to life]

Thanks to researchers at the Kaiteki Institute in Japan, you can constantly monitor your heart rates with a cheap pair of headphones.

Read more at: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/10/a-cheap-pair-of-headphones-can-accurately-measure-your-heart-rate/

What are your thoughts?

[TheRoss0411]

Or you could put your finger on your wrist

[M-ursu]

Nice, it would be great to try it.

[Chatzev]

Looks really cool and I could see this being very useful.

[mr moose]

I want to measure my heart rate, what is the best sound card I should get?

[Wulfgar]

I want to measure my heart rate, what is the best sound card I should get?

 

Obviously the Essence One Muses, it can cancel out all the nasty digestion noises and has pure platinum diodes to ensure speedy resuscitation in case of congenital heat failure.

[josephting]

Is that an XP?

[Ruostunut kokis]

Or you could put your finger on your wrist

For some people it just doesn't work. Like for me. Few people have tried, nothing could be felt.

 

On topic: Kinda weird to see headphones measuring heart rate. Weird idea but if it works, it could be useful.

[criso8]

Or you could put your finger on your wrist

No that actually isn't something you  could just do. If you are doing some cardio you can't just stop to measure your heart rate. The thing is specifically there to help you hit your target. If you would stop it would just drop again.

 

This is really cool if it's accurate at all. I know I would be interested in it. I would hope they would team up with someone who does audio though. The implementations that are around now aren't the most comfortable things and get in the way a bit.