Video: Innovation in health monitoring
“Our cars have about 400 sensors or more to figure out how the engine works and monitor the health of the engine. Our wireless phones have 10 sensors. We don’t have any. We are flying blind.”
Alex Scherer from the California Institute of Technology, USA, explains how tiny sensors could allow people to monitor and take control of their health.
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