Your Apple Watch may tell you when you’ve had too much to drink or if your blood sugar is too high. In recent SCC filings, UK medical tech company Rockley Photonics listed Apple as its ‘largest customer,’ which could add its non-invasive sensors to the devices to measure a number of markers in the blood. … Read more
Clean-up in rept-aisle four! Moment 6ft-long monitor lizard climbs up supermarket shelves as it raids store for food Reptile sparked panic after it ran into 7-Eleven store in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand Staff and customers hid behind counter as the beast rampaged through store Shop assistant called police who arrived with reptile handlers to snare the … Read more
Thugs will be fitted with ‘sobriety tags’ to monitor when they drink alcohol… and they could be JAILED for breaching abstinence order under new scheme Sobriety tags will be one of the measures courts can impose on criminals Device takes a sample of sweat every 30 minutes to detect any alcohol levels The new scheme … Read more
Four people in Oregon and 23 in Washington are being monitored for the Ebola virus after returning to the US from West Africa, the Oregon Health Authority said on Thursday. The individuals had returned from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where small outbreaks of Ebola have been recorded. The state health authority said … Read more
New GPS tags will be used to monitor 250 burglars, thieves and robbers round-the-clock for up to a year after they are freed from jail in a £6million trial. Six police forces in England will pilot the use of electronic tags with satellite-tracking capability on offenders when they are released from prison so officers can … Read more
Don’t look under the bed! Father shares spooky baby monitor footage of toddler ‘being pulled under her bed’ while screaming ‘mummy’ Young girl begins to crawl under bed before calling out for mother several times The child begins to panic and calls for her parent as legs disappear under bed Father Josh Dean took to social … Read more
‘Daddy has been added to your shopping list’: Baby monitor catches little boy having a cute chat with Alexa as he tries to get to sleep The little boy wakes up during the night and asks the Alexa device for this father Device unable to register request and tells him shopping list has been updated … Read more
New wearable all-in-one health monitor patch attaches to the neck and can report on users’ blood pressure, diabetes and other chronic conditions Engineers have designed an all-in-one health monitor that sits on the neck It is designed by a sheet of polymer and three sensors to capture data It monitors blood pressure, diabetes, detect onset … Read more
Facebook is reportedly developing an Android-based smartwatch that focuses on messaging and health features. According to The Information, the social media giant is ‘far along’ with the development and could release the device next year – with a second–generation as soon as 2023. The report claims the smartwatch will let users send and receive messages, … Read more
A £50 wristband created by a British health technology firm is helping people track the wellbeing of their friends, family and employees in lockdown. Moodbeam features two buttons that the wearer simply has to press throughout the day depending on their mood – yellow for happy and blue for unhappy. This is logged alongside both … Read more