The MAX30105 is an optical sensor capable of a great many things. It can sense particulate matter in the air, or pick up the blinking of an eye. Or, you can use it as a rudimentary way to measure your ...

While at CES 2016, I got a sneak preview of the MAX30102 optical sensor. I met with Maxim Integrated and saw a really neat optical heart rate IC for the wrist, finger, or even the ear. Any reasonably ...

An intense workout might feel great, but working out harder isn’t necessarily better. To achieve your health and fitness goals, you need to find the heart-rate zone where your workout yields safe, ...

How fast does your heart beat? It’s a tough question to answer, because our heart rate changes all the time depending on what we’re doing and how our body is behaving. However, [Ludwin] noted that ...

The new SFH 7060 sensor from Osram Opto Semiconductors is designed to measure pulse rates and the oxygen saturation level of blood. The new SFH 7060 sensor from Osram Opto Semiconductors is designed ...

Xiaomi shattered the notion that fitness trackers had to be expensive with last year's Mi Band. Despite not having a display, the minimalistic wearable included a number of embedded sensors and was ...

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic are worried that false positives from the Apple Watch’s pulse-reading sensor could overburden medical services. This is the pulse rate sensor available with all models ...

When representatives from the fitness tracking company Moov first told me they had made a heart rate sensor that you wear on your head, I thought the idea was ridiculous. But after I saw the Moov HR ...

A tank commander on the front line radios in a report during an international crisis…and there is no response. Has a stealthy electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack destroyed the radio electronics in the ...