Reshma Patil reports on the world’s smallest wearable cardiac monitor made at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
The world’s smallest wearable cardiac monitor, a toffee-sized silicon locket, is almost ready at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B).
While the tiny computer that can store a week’s electrocardiogram (ECG) data awaits a manufacturer, it is already in demand. IIT engineers borrow it, rig some adjustments and the locket meant to monitor a heart without hospital visits measures tremors in buildings instead. Continue reading ‘Made in Mumbai, wanted by the world’
