Samsung is working on technology that uses the Wi-Fi router in your home to measure the number of breaths you take per minute. Measuring your heart rate and breathing rate is relatively commonplace ...

Many factors, including age and activity levels, affect a person’s respiratory rate. Adults usually take between 12–20 breaths per minute, but children tend to breath faster. The respiratory rate is ...

Scientists have developed a wearable patch that can accurately monitor and detect changes in people's breathing—even when not in direct contact with the skin. It is hoped that the device—thought to be ...

In brief: Taiwanese power management company Delta unveiled some fascinating R&D work that shows Wi-Fi networks may soon be able to monitor our vital signs. At the Computex trade show in Taipei this ...

New work by researchers at CMU and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar shows that adding an inexpensive thermal camera to wearable devices could substantially improve how accurately ...

Prof. Giovanni Traverso holds an ingestible electronic device that can monitor vital signs from within a patient’s GI tract. The sensor could be used for less intrusive monitoring of sleep disorders ...