re: #34 Belafon

Which IoT devices are you thinking of in particular?

As for medical devices, do you really want something that requires a working battery on the sensor and hackable Bluetooth monitoring you?

All of them, but let’s start with that pulse ox. The whole time I was in the hospital post surgery I had a lead running from my fingertip to the monitoring machine. Anytime I needed to hit the head it was a call to the nurse’s station and “Hey, I’m unclipping my leads so I can go pee…” and getting it tangled in my blankets, pulling it loose and having the nurse have to run it to see what’s going on etc.

We can easily print flexible circuitry, we can power things via motion, a pulse ox is at heart a light and a sensor that reads a color value. Trivial to blue tooth or wifi, trivial to make in a flexible ring that sits on your finger.