Comments on: Cardiio uses iPhone camera sensor to get your heart rate on the go

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:16:02 +0000

There is already an app that does this called Heart Rate Cam for iOS. There’s also a free version.

By: mysterian

mysterian — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:42:46 +0000

The application Heart Rate by CMG research is a free finger, camera, flash app, and on my iPhone4 comes within 3 bpm of both the pulse-ox and the EKG. Even better, the waveform shows AF quite clearly.

By: Michael W. Perry

Michael W. Perry — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:12:48 +0000

It’s an interesting idea, although not new. Phillips Vital Signs Camera at 99 cents does the same thing. Both make an iPhone a bit like the medical Tricorder of the classic Star Trek.

I prefer simplicity myself. I take my pulse at the wrist for 15 seconds by the watch and multiply by four. That’s a lot easier than pulling my iPhone out, starting up an app, and holding it up to my face.

Where this concept might make sense would be as a separate instrument to monitor a baby sleeping in bed, tracking movement, respirations and pulse, particularly for babies at risk for SIDS. Babies and small children tend to pull off wired attachments.

By: Robert Andrews

Robert Andrews — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:04:03 +0000

Philips has had one of these for a while. I believe that less than I believe the several apps that claim to measure the rate of blood pumped through my finger with the camera and flash. Which is not much.

By: tee

tee — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:09:36 +0000

UGH @ This article? Are you reviewing an app? Where is the link to the app? Where is the name of the develper in the article? /end of rant

By: T

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:06:38 +0000

I don’t see a link or the name of the app anywhere in the article. There is one mention of the app in the title of the article, and then links to everywhere except the app – to the peer review, to the article from earlier in the year etc. Hate this hate this. Using name searches on the app store could get me a similar sounding app and you didn’t even mention the name of the developer.

By: GERHARD

GERHARD — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:55:01 +0000

I have been using the Phillips app ‘viital Signs’ for at least six months now and it does just that, measure and tracks your pulse. It also measures respiration at the same time. I have found it to generally be as accurate as finger light sensing apps, but it does require good lighting for optimum results. So the Cardio app is certainly not new and at $4.99 (ouch!) against Phillips’s ‘Vital Signs’ being free, I cannot see the benefit here.

By: Andi

Andi — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:16:26 +0000

Informative post. I would have mentioned the “Heart Rate” app, since it does almost the same thing (without the touch free part) and it’s cheaper! Cheerio!

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:26:43 +0000

As a stand-alone application, I’m not sure how much use it would be to someone like me, who is interested in that kind of data, but only within the context of a run, which I track via the Nike+ application on my iPhone.

So it’d be interesting — and certainly more beneficial — to see Cardiio team up with Nike and give the runners more valuable, contextual data.

By: D

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:53:23 +0000

Android had an app that did this a long time ago and its free