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Samsung unveils real-time health wristband and healthcare platform

The Simband is a wearable device which uses numerous sensors to track information like heart rate, movement, body temperature and other metrics on a continuous basis.

SAMSUNG HAS TAKEN another step into the wearable tech and fitness tracking markets by revealing a new wristband that can provide real-time health and fitness information.

At a press event in San Francisco,  Samsung revealed its new wearable device called Simband. It’s described as an “investigational device” which can be used to gather “vital diagnostic information” from a person.

This would include factors like heart rate, movement, body temperature and other metrics on a continuous basis. The wrist-mounted device has sensors placed on the bottom which could be expanded with extra hardware to track other things.

The device is the focal point of its new healthcare platform SAMI (Samsung Architecture Multimodal Interactions), which combines both hardware and cloud to for sensors to gather and store health data which it would use to improve wearable devices in the future.

The device and platform aren’t ready to be released just yet, but the Simband will be made available to developers later this year. Consumers won’t be able to buy one, but Samsung hopes that both its prototype device will help pave the way for future wearable health devices with mass appeal.

It plans to market SAMI by hosting a developer challenge, setting aside a $50 million fund to groups working on healthcare tracking projects. It’s also working with groups like the University of California and other research groups to deal with management of data gathered from both the platform and devices.


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    Feb 13th 2025, 2:50 PM

    Another load of hot air

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    Feb 14th 2025, 10:50 AM

    @MN: yes but they said lessons learned and the air has some heat to it to be fair will help heat the room its said in to a minor extent.

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    Feb 13th 2025, 3:41 PM

    Endless Committee Meetings. Time to actually do something.
    Stop never ending objections. Speed up recpossession of derelict properties. Speed up Apprenticeship training in building trades including the young male migrants who would probably be only to happy to have something to do and get paid for it.

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    Feb 13th 2025, 4:02 PM

    Ha five years later

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    Feb 13th 2025, 3:34 PM

    Housing for all …….except if your Irish!

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    Feb 13th 2025, 4:07 PM

    @Dan The Man: well said !!!

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    Feb 13th 2025, 4:23 PM

    @Dan The Man: I think there’re plenty of Irish scroungers as well.
    = Irish getting houses too.

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    Feb 13th 2025, 4:48 PM

    @Wolfgang Bonow: Which they pay rent on, like people tuat have come from abroad. You see they, like everyone else is put onto the council housing list but claiming anything else is typical anti-immigration rhetoric.

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    Feb 13th 2025, 2:44 PM

    We need to fill these houses with refugees from Afghanistan.

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    Feb 13th 2025, 4:49 PM

    @Joe Willis: Completely incorrect but you know that.

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    Feb 13th 2025, 5:33 PM

    @Brian D’Arcy: it was an opinion not a fact.

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    Feb 13th 2025, 6:34 PM

    @Joe Willis: Well it was a stupid opinion

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    Feb 13th 2025, 2:43 PM

    Who is All?
    Will some be paying and some getting them free .?
    Is there an actual housing list that is adhered to ?

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    Feb 13th 2025, 4:49 PM

    @BL Music: Do you have evidence to the contrary?

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