A group of researchers in the U.S. has developed a wearable device they say could detect symptoms associated with the novel coronavirus.
The new device does not look like other wearable electronics — it’s soft, flexible and worn on the throat. It measures respiratory activity and coughing, along with temperature and heart rate, said John Rogers, a professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University who led the development of the technology. “The device measures basically motion — subtle vibratory signatures of underlying processes, body processes that appear at the surface of the skin.
You can almost think of it as a stethoscope in a sense,” Rogers told Kelly Cutrara on Global News Radio 640 Toronto. “It’s capturing that type of