MIT team develops system for continuous medical monitoring using widely available video technology.
Very soon all our touch devices will be looking right back at us.
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.
via web.mit.edu