Been playing with mine for about 10 days now. Tested it against a CONTOUR NEXT GEN Blood Glucose Monitoring System strip. They reported very similar blood glucose readings.
N.B.: I have Android 15 on my phone and they say the app won’t work with it but it mostly does. However, you should know that adding the Clarity app (also from Dexcom) to your phone will let you sync to the Stelo app and download full reports to your phone and/or computer. Stelo doesn’t really show that much info. Fortunately, all the Stelo app info is visible with Clarity. Dumb programming on Dexcom’s part, IMO.
Ozlo Sleepbuds aren’t just comfortable earbuds for sleeping – they can actually help you get a better night’s sleep.
They’re designed to be flush with your ear, which means you can sleep on your side without feeling them pressing into you. That also prevents them from falling out of your ear.
Sleep-enhancing perks include biometric sensors in the earbuds that can track your sleep, sensors in the case that can identify potential sleep interruptions in your room, an in-ear alarm that won’t wake up a sleeping partner and a 10-hour battery life, so you won’t wake up to a dead battery notification.
You can even play sound directly from the Sleepbuds, without connecting to another Bluetooth device, which means you won’t even have to look at your phone before going to bed.
L’Oréal’s Cell BioPrint blew me away. The mini-lab analyzes photos of your skin and a skin sample from your cheeks to tell you about your skin’s health. It can tell you about your chronological age versus your biological one (aka is your current routine working well?). It can also assess how you’re doing with issues like wrinkles, skin tone, skin barrier, oiliness, and pore size — or if it’s likely to become a problem in the future. It can also analyze whether you’re responsive to certain ingredients, starting with retinol.
These look interesting… in concept, but some issues it seems…
DC’s YouTube review reveals that despite being marketed as capable of pairing with gym equipment to display heart rate data at a glance, Powerbeats Pro 2 cannot simultaneously maintain a Bluetooth connection to a phone for music playback, a limitation Apple has since confirmed.
“You cannot listen to music with your iPhone while also paired with the gym equipment for heart rate,” Apple said in an email in response to DC’s query.
Several Reddit users have complained about the same issue. The limitation means users must choose between listening to music from their phone or sharing heart rate data with gym equipment, but not both at the same time.
Artificial intelligence algorithms are being built into almost all aspects of health care. They’re integrated into breast cancer screenings, clinical note-taking, health insurance management and even phone and computer apps to create virtual nurses and transcribe doctor-patient conversations. Companies say that these tools will make medicine more efficient and reduce the burden on doctors and other health care workers. But some experts question whether the tools work as well as companies claim they do.
AI tools such as large language models, or LLMs, which are trained on vast troves of text data to generate humanlike text, are only as good as their training and testing. But the publicly available assessments of LLM capabilities in the medical domain are based on evaluations that use medical student exams, such as the MCAT. In fact, a review of studies evaluating health care AI models, specifically LLMs, found that only 5 percent used real patient data. Moreover, most studies evaluated LLMs by asking questions about medical knowledge. Very few assessed LLMs’ abilities to write prescriptions, summarize conversations or have conversations with patients — tasks LLMs would do in the real world.
The ECM can be maintained. I cannot claim to solve all the problems. I think you should see my approach as being the foundations of a solution. I am still looking for a small number of people willing to do biohacking experimentation under my coaching (at no cost) at their risk. There are testing costs, however.
It was mid-February, and I’d turned up at an address in the Inner Richmond. Jonathan Xu, all of twenty-four years old, opened the door and greeted me with a smile. A few moments later, we were both in the basement where a children’s music teacher named Mathew had an EEG (Electroencephalogram) device strapped to his head so that Xu could try and read his mind.
Thanks to Neuralink, a host of other start-ups and headline writers trying to seduce SEO bots, you’ve likely read a lot about mind-reading technology over the past few years. We’re in the midst of a bull market when it comes to brain-computer interface (BCI) systems and attempts to place electrodes very close to neurons so that we can read out the electrical patterns they produce when people think. To that extent, Xu and his company Alljoined are nothing new.
Circular’s Ring 2 is a new smart ring coming in 2025
The company has just revealed it will add blood pressure monitoring before the end of the year
It is also planning to add blood glucose trends in 2026
The Circular Ring 2 is Circular’s brand new smart ring coming in 2025, and the company has just announced two massive health features we can expect to be added following the launch.
Not only will it feature atrial fibrillation detection and ECG (a first for smart rings), but the company now says it is also getting blood pressure and possibly blood glucose monitoring.
I was going to order and then… I remembered my last Kickstarter “purchase” for an iPad Pro case that arrived 2 years later than promised. By then I had moved to a different iPad and it was worthless to me.
Additionally, the blood pressure and blood glucose monitoring features are “future” innovations. Over my many years of being a technophile I have learned not to believe any vaporware stories. So I didn’t go for the ring. I’ll wait and see if the Circular Ring 2 promises are real or not. Until then I can continue using my RingConn2 and my Samsung Galaxy rings, both of which work now.
The Galaxy ring has better software—Samsung Health. The RingConn2 has okay, but elementary software. However, it lasts a long time on a charge, many more days than the Samsung.
I find my sleep has improved at least for the first part of the night and I kind of like the faint light flashes I get during the stimulation. I’m not sure if the stimulation itself if working though. The stimulation lasts 15min during which I’m just lying in bed relaxing while listening to their “relaxing/meditation/calming” music. It could be that calming and relaxing time that is the effective intervention. Also the placebo effect is probably very potent here as well.
Basically it’s a mixed bag, I can’t really say if it’s really working or not but for now I’m continuing using it which I guess shows I’m mildly optimistic.
New apps for cancer patients, cannabis users, others make use of algorithms that continually customize support
Cancer patients who undergo stem cell transplantation face a long recovery, requiring medications with debilitating side effects and support around the clock. It’s a difficult experience, with studies showing that more than 70 percent of patients don’t adhere to drug regimens.
Statistician Susan Murphy spends her days trying to help people suffering from such challenging maladies. The Mallinckrodt Professor of Statistics and Computer Science and associate faculty at the Kempner Institute and her team address healthcare needs not through medicine, but by mobile apps.
Murphy’s lab specializes in creating sophisticated computational instructions known as reinforcement learning algorithms, which form the technical backbone of next-generation programs to help people stick to a medication protocol, for instance, or regular tooth brushing, or reducing cannabis use.
And if this sounds like one of those ubiquitous apps that tracks steps or counts calories, think again.
