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iPad measures heart and breathing rates using only camera.
Philips Vital Signs Camera app measures fluctuations in skin colour and movement of shoulders to estimate your heart rate and breathing rate. It is impressive that skin colour can be tracked so accurately and quickly. Smartphone and tablet cameras are usually of poor quality (particularly forward facing cameras) so it is a testament to the algorithms that the system appears to work so well. See the review link below where they put it through some paces.
Integrate some of this technology into video conferencing and your tablet will be able to tell you when the person you are talking to is lying or not, or whether you’ve just embarrassed them. This would be useful to add to the extension of SixthSense that designer Timothy Byrne of Western Washington University is working on to provide social cues to suffers of autism.
