The Weirdest Digital Health Tech From Shock Clocks To Blockchain Toothbrushes
A blockchain toothbrush could help you collect love
tooth coins, a smart condom could measure your performance in the bedroom, a
cooperative app could log your poop, and an electric shock alarm clock could
make you jump out of bed (happy?) every day. As awkward as it looks, some
digital health ideas really went off the charts. Let’s explore a little bit the
universe of the weirdest digital health tech out there. Believe us, it’s worth
the read.
A bit awkward here and there
With the flood of digital health technologies, there’s
literally an app or a digital device for everything. The question is whether
there should be. Do we need to keep track of even the most intimate details of
our health by almighty sensors? We definitely see that there are some
boundaries that shouldn’t be crossed here.
It could already be awkward if you use a teledermatology app or a symptom checker and the program or, in case of telehealth services, the doctor on the other end of the phone asks you to take a photo of your armpit or your throat. One of our followers said the doctor even had him use the phone’s camera flashlight to get a better view. But what if companies go even further than that and apply digital technology to sensitive and intimate areas where those have nothing to do? Or even if there’s a medically established reason, the result feels awkward? For example, once Durex licensed Azumio’s smartphone HeartRate algorithm to measure excitement. That doesn’t feel nece...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers digital digital health digital health tech digital health technology fail future Innovation weird Source Type: blogs
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