In an increasingly competitive market for health monitoring, the Wello iPhone 5/5S case is going all-in-one.
It reckons that if you hold it for a few seconds, via Bluetooth its app can provide your heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, temperature and heart ECG waves.
There's also for a peripheral you blow into to test your lung function.
Now, I'm all for making the qualified self as easy as possible, but accuracy must come into the picture somewhere.
I'm pretty skeptical about heart rate monitors that aren't chest straps so accuracy taking your blood pressure - a metric I love - through your fingers sounds suspicious to me.
Still, Azoi, the team behind Wello, seems legit and has been working on their tech for a couple of years. It will also be available for Android devices, only not as a case.
Guess we'll find out more when the Wello iPhone case - currently available for pre-order priced $199/£120 - is released.
It reckons that if you hold it for a few seconds, via Bluetooth its app can provide your heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, temperature and heart ECG waves.
There's also for a peripheral you blow into to test your lung function.
Now, I'm all for making the qualified self as easy as possible, but accuracy must come into the picture somewhere.
I'm pretty skeptical about heart rate monitors that aren't chest straps so accuracy taking your blood pressure - a metric I love - through your fingers sounds suspicious to me.
Still, Azoi, the team behind Wello, seems legit and has been working on their tech for a couple of years. It will also be available for Android devices, only not as a case.
Guess we'll find out more when the Wello iPhone case - currently available for pre-order priced $199/£120 - is released.
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