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

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.…

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

Body­Media 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, 

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Open question: Can coffee & Ritalin’s mental effects be delivered, safely, over a smartphone?

. Will 2015 be the year our smart­phones link up to our brains? (Pop­u­lar Sci­ence): “Thync bills itself first and fore­most as a neu­ro­science com­pa­ny. Its sole product—slated for release lat­er this year—is a smart­­phone-con­trolled wear­able device that will allow the user to active­ly alter his or her brain’s elec­tri­cal state through tran­scra­nial direct current…

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