Sensor to control your eating & smoking habits
Researchers at the National Taiwan University know that you totally suck at self-control; especially when it comes to eating and smoking. They've therefore developed a new type of sensor that sits on your teeth and silently monitors what and how much have you been putting in your mouth and in what quantity. It then tells it all to the doctors like an obedient servant so that the doctors. Research team head, Hao-Hua Chu has already done tests with the prototype with 8 volunteers.
The sensor's got accelerometers which help it determine whether you're chewing, smoking, speaking or coughing with about 94% accuracy. It can't determine whether the food you're eating is healthy because it'll need a lot of updates. First the team will have to develop a power source so that the sensor keeps on functioning without external batteries like the prototypes. They'll then have to develop Bluetooth connectivity so that the sensor can feed all the data to your smartphone.
The team's next challenge is to shrink the sensor in size so that it can fit well within the cavities. If you're interested in knowing more about the sensor and the research project, hit the source link (PDF) that describes it.
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