The benefits of walking

According to the NHS, adults should be doing “at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity a week”. Walking counts towards this weekly exercise goal, and can help you build stamina and improve cardiovascular health – but you have to make sure you’re going at a “brisk” pace. During the exercise, Dr Davies says that […]

400+ workouts on demand

PUREGYM just made 400 workouts available for free. This is a hugely impressive collection. Contactless access to the gym using your phoneLive attendance tracker to help plan your visits to the gymLoads of great classes and 400+ workouts on demandBuild a personalised workout to meet your goalsManage your membership from changing your gym to updating […]

A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.

The pain was overwhelming, like being grilled alive. It ran out from a center point in my chest and flowed into every organ, every limb, into my fingers and toes. Later, waiting in the trauma section of the Mount Sinai emergency room, doctors shocked me again. Months of testing followed. I started taking drugs that […]

“Why is my mood all over the place at the moment?”

Unlike during the first lockdown, my mood has been all over the place. When I say I can’t predict what my mood is going to be like from one day to the next, I’m not being dramatic: one moment I’ll be happy as a clam, feeling motivated at work and aching to see the positive […]

Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data

The use of wearable devices has ample potential to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To date, the pandemic has infected tens of millions of individuals and caused over one million deaths worldwide. There is a substantial need for improved infection tracking, and population-scale technology solutions provide a promising avenue to identify cases in […]

Blood Oxygen randomness

I took my blood oxygen on the Apple Watch 3 times yesterday morning, one straight after the other and I was surprised to see utter randomness in the results. It made up my mind that the new blood oxygen feature on the Apple Watch is useless, but I was completely wrong. My wife explained to […]