Thursday, July 22, 2004
Allergy detector
Thanks to Sandra Woolley for this suggestion.
There is a disturbing increase in allergies in young children. 20% of children are now estimated to suffer from at least one allergy to food or environmental allergens, and the incidence of children with life-threatening allergies has doubled in the last five years. This could be a real application for smartphones or wearables, to give children and their carers advice in context. As well as guidance on what to do in an emergency, a PDA with a barcode reader might scan supermarket food items to see if they have a specific allergen, or a restaurant menu could have an RFID tag that sounds an alarm if it matches a reader carried by the wearer.
Thanks to Sandra Woolley for this suggestion.
There is a disturbing increase in allergies in young children. 20% of children are now estimated to suffer from at least one allergy to food or environmental allergens, and the incidence of children with life-threatening allergies has doubled in the last five years. This could be a real application for smartphones or wearables, to give children and their carers advice in context. As well as guidance on what to do in an emergency, a PDA with a barcode reader might scan supermarket food items to see if they have a specific allergen, or a restaurant menu could have an RFID tag that sounds an alarm if it matches a reader carried by the wearer.
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