Scientists have designed a new wearable monitor that keeps track of your health by measuring chemicals in your sweat.
While health monitors have exploded onto the consumer electronics scene over the past decade, researchers say this device, which can be synched in real time to your smart phone, is the first fully integrated electronic system that can provide continuous, noninvasive monitoring of multiple biochemicals in perspiration.
The advance opens doors to wearable devices that alert users to health problems such as fatigue, dehydration, and dangerously high body temperatures.
“Human sweat contains physiologically rich information, thus making it an attractive body fluid for noninvasive wearable sensors,” says study principal investigator Ali Javey, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California at Berkeley and principal invesdtigator of the study that is published in the journal Nature.
“However, sweat is complex and it is necessary to measure multiple targets to extract meaningful information about your state of health.
