October 6, 2010

Medical Mirror monitors your Vital Signs using a Camera

Ming-Zher Poh who is a MIT student studying  Electrical and Medical Engineering has created a Medical Mirror using a cheap camera as the medical sensor. The camera doesn’t have to be anything special, the cheap webcam in your laptop would do just fine. It is looking for a person and tracks their face. Once it is locked onto the face it monitors the slight changes caused by blood flow. “Public-domain