Austin, Texas-based semiconductor producer Silicon Labs has announced a new line of optical biometric sensors that promise more fleshed out heart rate monitoring and lower power consumption for ...

With heart rate monitors now standard in smartwatches and fitness trackers, electrocardiograms (ECG/EKG) have rapidly become a common feature in health wearables. The technology aims to assist ...

Over the past year, wearable consumer electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) devices have become more commonplace thanks to the introduction of the Apple Watch Series 4, but that’s not the final word in heart ...

Targeting new capabilities in virtual health-care monitoring devices, Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. has unveiled its Health Sensor Platform 2.0 (HSP 2.0) for designers looking to create wearable ...

Blood pressure monitoring, now part of daily life, has mostly been achieved with bulky and mechanical cuff-based medical devices. That’s changing with the availability of solid-state blood-pressure ...

We’ve seen a number of heart rate monitoring projects on Hackaday, but [Peter’s] electrocardiography (ECG) Instructable really caught out attention. If you’ve followed Hackaday for any period of time, ...