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Soon your doctor will be able to wirelessly track your health—even through walls

Posted on September 15, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Rachel Metz reports:

Imagine a box, similar to a Wi-Fi router, that sits in your home and tracks all kinds of physiological signals as you move from room to room: breathing, heart rate, sleep, gait, and more.

Dina Katabi, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, built this box in her lab. And in the not-so-distant future, she believes, it will be able to replace the array of expensive, bulky, uncomfortable gear we currently need to get clinical data about the body.

Read more on MIT Technology Review.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

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