Fujitsu Pulse Monitor

Here’s a perspective on the phrase “green with envy.”  Fujitsu Laboratories has adapted a technology originally developed at MIT that allows a camera in a PC, smartphone or tablet to measure the absorption/reflection of green light in the image of a person’s face.  Hemoglobin reacts to green light; so, variations in light can be calculated to show blood flow and pulse.  A reading takes 5 seconds and could be done continuously. MORE

the original MIT piece includes a video

Image Credit: Fujitsu Laboratories and Gizmag.com