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Wearable device draws on the starfish to better monitor heart health
If someone is afflicted with heart disease, it's important that their cardiac activity be monitored as frequently and accurately as possible. An experimental new wearable device is designed to make that happen, by copying the body structure of the starfish.
In order to record different types of cardiac signals, these systems typically must incorporate multiple sensors, each one of which has just a single point of contact with the skin. Developed by Sicheng Chen, Zheng Yan and colleagues at the University of Missouri, the five-armed, flexible-polymer-bodied gadget is adhered to the skin over and around the patient's heart. All of that data is initially processed by the onboard computer, then wirelessly transmitted to a nearby smartphone or tablet for further analysis via machine-learning-based algorithms – this happens 10 times per second.
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