LAS VEGAS (EFE) .- More than 500 companies exhibited this week at the CES technology fair in Las Vegas devices for health care, ranging from the first digital bra, to scan the applications and determine their food nutritional value and patches that warn of harmful solar radiation.
The health and wellness is one of the themes Star CES, the largest consumer technology trade show in the world, held tomorrow in Las Vegas (USA) and attracts some 3,600 companies and more than 150,000 participants from 150 countries.
The official publication of the event says it has been a 40% increase in the number of exhibitors in the area of health since 2014, in a clear sign of the digital revolution is attending the sector.
According to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in the US, one in ten households have a device for measuring physical activity, almost double that of a year ago.
Preliminary figures from the organization forward an increase of 21% in sales of such devices in the past year, up from the 20.3 million units, which would put the turnover in that category in the United States in 2015 1,800 million.
Experts as Daniel Kraft, a physician who heads the Department of Medicine and Neuroscience at Singularity University (California) considered, in fact, the most interesting trend in the field of Health is the convergence of mobile devices with information that empowers patients.
Kraft said in an in terview that this trend will increase and will make it possible to combine mobile devices with sensors and data analysis to convert the user “own your own health, the CEO of their health.”
Among the ads that point in that direction figure that made by IBM, which unveiled an alliance with the firm Sales of sporting goods Under Armour in the development of an application to help diagnose hours in advance potential episodes of hypoglycemia in people with diabetes.
The application of Under Armour is driven by technology supercomputer Watson IBM and collects data from Medtronic insulin pumps and combined with information on physical activity and diet users to make forecasts about possible hypoglycemia.
The exhibition also displays the first smart bra, OMsignal , a sports garment with embedded sensors that connect to an application and collect data on heart rate, breathing and calories burned during exercise.
cosmetic firms such as L’Oreal have also joined the digital revolution under way with an adhesive patch with embedded sensors and connect to an application on the phone to determine whether ultraviolet radiation are dangerous.
On the other hand, the manufacturer of electronic bracelets measuring physical activity Fitbit launched this week Blaze smart watch, Racing Apple Watch.
Health Technology
Several companies have joined the digital revolution in the field of Health
Scanner calories
The Sensor Diet is another application that has generated attention at CES in Las Vegas, allowing, after connecting with a device that scans . food, determining the nutritional value and calories of what you have at home
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