Category Archives: CES 2013

Masimo iSpO2 Mobile Pulse Oximeter

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iSpO2 Pulse Oximeter App
iSpO2 Pulse Oximeter App

Masimo is known among health care professionals as a leader in health sensor technology. Now with the iSpO2, they bring their industry leading pulse oximeter technology to the Consumer Electronics Show at CES Unveiled.

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Max Safai from Masimo joins Jamie Davis, the Podmedic to talk about their first venture into the consumer electronics marketplace, the iSpO2 home pulse oximeter for iOS devices. When you plug the device into your compatible iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch you see your heart rate, perfusion index and a number representing the percent of oxygen saturation in your blood, ranging from 0 to 100. Health care professionals use this tool all the time to help gain a glimpse into what’s going on inside a patient during an exam or hospitalization.

Track Health Data, Contact Caregivers

The mobile app can track your data and email that data to your caregivers, home care nurse, or primary care physician allowing them to have increased oversight without bringing you back to their office for a visit. The iSpO2 is currently available on Amazon.com and iSpO2.com for $249.00.

Video by Jamie Davis, the Podmedic from Health Tech Weekly (HTWeekly.com).

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Bodymedia Fit Link Armband Fitness Tracker

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Bodymedia Fit Link Armband
Bodymedia Fit Link Armband

There are a lot of fitness devices debuting at CES but how’d you like a fitness monitor that not only tracks your steps, your heart rate and also your sleep patterns?

Stay tuned for the Bodymedia Fit.

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Erin from Bodymedia Fit tells Jamie Davis, the Podmedic about the Link Armband tracker and monitor. It’s a bluetooth wireless device that tracks your calories burned, steps taken, your physical activity and your sleep, all with over 90% accuracy. It takes all of those measurements through four different sensors on the back of the device that rest against your skin. It transmits that information to an online activity app or your smart phone so you can track your data and find out how you are doing.

Good for Fitness Experts and Newbies

This device helps both the athlete and people just starting out by showing them which activities are more productive at burning calories. With the online system or using the mobile app, users can match calories burned against calories eaten to monitor your progress towards a goal. The Bodymedia Fit Link Armband also integrates with other apps and fitness devices.

Check out the Withings Smart Body Analyzer Scale video from CES, too.

Video by Jamie Davis, the Podmedic from Health Tech Weekly (HTWeekly.com).

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Aquaris Micon Waterproof Hearing Aid

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Siemens Aquaris Micon Hearing Aid
Siemens Aquaris Micon Hearing Aid

When you have a hearing aid, you have to constantly take it out and put it back in based on the activities of your daily life. That’s not the case with the Aquaris Micon Waterproof Hearing Aid from Siemens.

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Eric from Siemens tells Jamie Davis, the Podmedic about the new waterproof, dust proof and shock resistant Aquaris Micon hearing aid they were showing off at the CES Unveiled event. Now there are really no limits to a hearing impaired person’s ability to go out, go swimming, work in their wood shop or any other activity they might want to do. They don’t have to be worried about protecting their hearing aid devices from the environment. The Aquaris Micon hearing aid is completely sealed so they just go about living their daily lives.

Advanced Programmability and No Whistling

It’s important for us to be able to hear everywhere in our daily lives. Communication is a central part of life and with the Aquaris Micon there is new and enhanced processing that allows for programmability and none of the “whistling” audio feedback commonly heard from other hearing aid devices.

The Aquaris Micon hearing aid from Siemens is available now from Audiologists and other specialty healthcare professionals near you. Pricing is variable based upon vendor and region.

Video by Jamie Davis, the Podmedic from Health Tech Weekly (HTWeekly.com).

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Withings Smart Body Analyzer

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Withings Smart Body Analyzer Scale
Withings Smart Body Analyzer Scale

At CES Unveiled, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic got a chance to talk to the folks at Withings about their Smart Body Analyzer scale. According to Alexis it’s not just your ordinary bathroom scale.

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This new home scale was awarded a CES 2013 Innovations Award. This scale measures not just your weight, BMI and body fat but also your heart rate and home air quality (carbon dioxide levels) and temperature. The device also connects wirelessly via WiFi or Bluetooth with an app on your mobile device to track all the data.

Home Air Quality Monitoring

Because it monitors air quality in your home, Alexis at Withings recommends you place the scale in your bedroom so you can test the carbon dioxide levels and temperature in your room while you sleep. With today’s homes sealed tight against the weather, it’s important to make sure you can vent air to the outside often enough to ensure high enough oxygen to carbon dioxide levels.

The Withings Smart Body Analyzer will be available for purchase by the end of March and is expected to be priced at $149.00

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LifeProof Protects Your iPhone or iPad Anywhere

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Life Proof Mobile Cases

You’re bleeding all over your nurse’s iPad but it’s not a problem because she’s got a LifeProof case on that mobile device. Join Health Tech Weekly host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic as he chats with LifeProof CEO, Gary Rayner, in their booth at CES 2013 last week.

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Protect Your Devices From Life

LifeProof is all about the things that happen in your life and making sure you don’t have to worry about your expensive mobile devices during those life events. The LifeProof cases make your device waterproof, dirt proof, snow proof and shock proof to military specifications so that when you’re on the job, you don’t have to worry about dropping your iPad or iPhone to the floor or in a dirty medical environment.

LifeProof Tactical Case

Any spills or cross contamination on your device can be wiped or washed off and disinfected just as you would any other piece of equipment and the functionality and features of the tablet or phone are completely undiminished. The LifeProof cases also have available accessories like hand straps and shoulder straps as well as stands and mounts for use in the hospital or ambulance environments.

Features Similar Cases Lack

Many similar cases that advertise being waterproof are very bulky but the slim design of the LifeProof case and the way it seals directly to the glass face of the device makes it similar in weight and profile to most standard cases. It’s more of a conversion for your mobile device than a case. The rubber bumpers and gaskets are completely bonded to the case body leaving no gaps in which pathogens can hide.

The LifeProof cases are currently available for iPhone 5, iPhone 4/4s, 3rd or 4th generation iPad, and the 4th generation iPod Touch. There will be a Samsung Galaxy S III case coming soon.

Find LifeProof cases at Amazon.com or other popular retailers. Prices begin at $79.95.

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Canon Powershot N with WiFi

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Canon Powershot N
Canon Powershot N

Ben Thomas shows me the Canon Powershot N – the newest in their point and shoot line. The button configuration has changed so you can shoot faster and better. If you don’t like the buttons on the lens area then just tap on the LCD screen like you would a smartphone.

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The Canon Powershot N also has WiFi built-in so you can view and take pictures, then send to your favorite sites (email, Facebook, Twitter) or send to Canon’s Image Gateway. When you get a camera you also get 10 GB on their cloud service. Using the Canon Camera Window software you can control your pictures with your iOS or Android device.

Check out the other video with Canon VIXIA R40, R42 and R400 series

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Canon VIXIA R40 with WiFi Streaming

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Canon Vixia HF-R40
Canon Vixia HF-R40

Canon’s Ben Thomas showed us the next line of VIXIA series cameras. The VIXIA HF-R400, HF-R40 and HF-R42. With an improved CMOS and Wifi you can not only get the shot in low light but with the Camera access app will be able to control from the Android or iOS device.

The HF-R series also has 53x Advanced Zoom and a Genuine Canon HD Video Lens so you can bring the camera up close and still get everyone in the shot.

The VIXIA HF-R series will start at $299 for the HF-R400, $399 for the R40 and $499 for the R42.

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Video by Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine.com

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CES 2013 Post Show TPN. tv Assets

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The team has packed up and is heading home from CES 2013, but we have a metric ton of content to produce, post & analyze but that does not stop you from reviewing everything we have online so far.

We want to thank the folks over at LiveStream who worked with us and made the Live experience an “ad free” one. We have all of the content segments posted on Livestream, and while they need some time hack refinements you can watch the segments now by day and hour.. CES 2013 Live Livestream Segments

Our Liveblog was hugely successful. We have had so far 246,769 user engagement minutes so far, or over 4111 hours of viewing. You can see the entire live blog here on the TPN.tv site.

We are still working on the numbers for the live content and will get you our totals for that shortly.

Over the coming weeks, we will be producing each floor and live interview as an individual segment and they will be posted to this website and all of our team members websites.