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Webcam Can Tell If Your Heart is Healthy

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leo61611616
leo61611616 Original post #1
Oct 5, 2010 at 11:36 AM
Ming-Zher Poh, a graduate student at MIT, has made it possible for a webcam to tell how healthy you and your heart are, by just looking at you. There’s no need to hook yourself up to any machine, or test your blood. Just look at the webcam, and you’ll have your result displayed to you.

It's all done by a clever algorithm that looks at a webcam feed of your face and measures “slight variations in brightness produced by the flow of blood through blood vessels in the face.”

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tobbyhot
Oct 5, 2010 at 1:35 PM
I used to watch Discovery, Nat Geo and they really shows a different kinda technology which a common man even can't imagine so this can also be possible I m not so much surprised..