Quantified living

Quantified living is one of the most dramatic emerging trends at present - and one that can really impact on our lives. We're already experiencing wearable tracking devices - now we see an emergence of connected objects in your home dedicated to quantifying every other part of your life…

You can check a person's vital signs - pulse, respiration and blood pressure - manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is working on a system that could measure these health indicators just by putting a person in front of a low-cost camera such as a laptop computer's built-in webcam.