I will skate over the obvious question as to whether a 3.78% drop in your zinc level in your sweat coupled with a 1.91% rise in blood glucose is something that will make a Healthcare Professional take notice. Interpreting vast swathes of data from one human body would be quite some job. I thought that the human body was rather a tricky device. Much as this may be a massive business opportunity in the future, will it benefit people other than those with chronic conditions?

Engineers are probably interested in a world with yet more sensors in consumer devices. What an amazing transformation from a world with a low tech heating controller in your home and ABS in your car to a car stuffed full of sensors and now the prospect of our bodies being sensed continuously as well. Having our sweat continually analysed. Heart rate and whatever other cardiovascular activity readings are “useful”. All this data sent wirelessly to our wireless devices for some sort of processing in order to tell us “something” and maybe on to central processors for analysis somewhere else in the world. If lots of people are recording the same thing, will your results be comparable to mine and allow somebody to flag up areas of concern or suggestions for improvement? Would you or I pay for this service?

Are we talking about cheap throwaway sensing devices? Total throwaway? A service life of a year or two? Something a little better in quality? How accurate? Setting up? Recalibration? Will anybody care if readings are miles out? Are we moving into a world of mass market sensing using cheap compromise sensors or adopting acknowledged “better” ways of doing things at higher prices? Maybe the million dollar question is who will be paying? Techie early adopters who must have the latest gadget, punters in a mass market for a new health product or the will the healthcare industry be expecting governments or insurers to pick up the bill? Or are we opening the door to a massive new marketing opportunity where how you feel is backed up by figures that suggest you should be ordering whatever supplement on line?

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