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Monitoring health, wellness and fitness via wearable devices: Key Neurotech Patent #29

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– Illus­tra­tive image from US Patent No. 7,261,690.

Today we are shar­ing a fas­ci­nat­ing 2007 patent assigned to Body­media. (As men­tioned, we are fea­tur­ing a foun­da­tion­al Per­va­sive Neu­rotech patent a day, from old­er to new­er by issue date)

U.S. Patent No. 7,261,690: Appa­ra­tus for mon­i­tor­ing health, well­ness and fitness.

  • Assignee(s): Body­media, Inc.
  • Inventor(s): Eric Teller, John M. Stivoric, Christo­pher D. Kasabach, Christo­pher D. Pacione, John
  • L. Moss, Craig B. Liden
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neuro-monitoring
  • Issue Date: August 28, 2007

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘690 patent dis­clos­es an appa­ra­tus for mon­i­tor­ing human health and well­ness, includ­ing men­tal health ele­ments, through a wear­able device with phys­i­o­log­i­cal and con­tex­tu­al (envi­ron­men­tal) sen­sors. [Read more…] about Mon­i­tor­ing health, well­ness and fit­ness via wear­able devices: Key Neu­rotech Patent #29

Final 24 hours to access leading, independent market research on digital brain health & neurotechnology at discounted price

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“The future is already here – it’s just not even­ly dis­trib­uted” — writer and futur­ist William Gibson

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10 Non-invasive Neurotechnologies About to Transform Brain Enhancement and Brain Health

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30,000+ sci­en­tists and pro­fes­sion­als gath­ered for the annu­al Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science con­fer­ence in Chica­go last month, prov­ing the grow­ing inter­est and activ­i­ties to bet­ter under­stand the inner work­ings of the human brain, and to dis­cov­er ways and tech­nolo­gies to enhance its health and performance.

Now, which of all those ongo­ing efforts are clos­er to touch­ing our lives, to empow­er con­sumers, patients and health pro­fes­sion­als? [Read more…] about 10 Non-inva­sive Neu­rotech­nolo­gies About to Trans­form Brain Enhance­ment and Brain Health

BodyMedia (a Jawbone company) ranked #7 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*

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bodymedia logoBody­Media was found­ed in 1999 to pio­neer tech­nol­o­gy in wear­able devices for health and well­ness mon­i­tor­ing. Their 24-hour mon­i­tor­ing devices were pri­mar­i­ly intend­ed to help con­sumers make behav­ioral changes so as to man­age weight and activ­i­ty lev­els, but they have also been used to gath­er infor­ma­tion on obe­si­ty, can­cer, COPD, [Read more…] about Body­Media (a Jaw­bone com­pa­ny) ranked #7 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech Intel­lec­tu­al Property*

Upcoming market report on Pervasive Neurotechnology

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market reportJust a quick heads-up to the Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty: we are wrap­ping up a com­pre­hen­sive mar­ket report on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nolo­gies (non-inva­sive, scal­able, poten­tial­ly ubiq­ui­tous). To learn when it becomes avail­able, keep tuned via our e‑Newsletter.

See below, in alpha­bet­i­cal order, a few of the orga­ni­za­tions to be pro­filed in the report, giv­en their rel­e­vant intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty port­fo­lios (pri­mar­i­ly patents). [Read more…] about Upcom­ing mar­ket report on Per­va­sive Neurotechnology