<div>Alpha has a video clip comparing their technology to the Polar chest strap, and it looks solid for a proof of concept. The form factor is not there, though the clip was taken in Jan. of this year:</div><div><br></div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJRq7ZlcVbM&feature=BFa&list=ULrMJQJ67Sq2E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJRq7ZlcVbM&feature=BFa&list=ULrMJQJ67Sq2E</a><div><br></div><div>I don't work in this field, so hopefully some of you can provide proper insight. And/or more news about Basis.</div>
<div><br></div><div>=)</div><div> Chung-Hay</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Jean Rintoul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jean.rintoul@gmail.com" target="_blank">jean.rintoul@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Technology licensed from Philips, by the owner of Mio. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Still looks very prototypey, and obviously 100k isn't enough to do much of what is listed.</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">P.s. Basis is doing the same thing except is closer to releasing. When Basis saw Jawbone mess up it decided to really hone in it's manufacturing processes and we are pretty close... and not lying, so stop dissing the delayed release date! </div>
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Jean</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Eric Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrericboyd@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mrericboyd@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alphaheartrate/alpha-the-holy-grail-of-heart-rate-look-ma-no-hand" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alphaheartrate/alpha-the-holy-grail-of-heart-rate-look-ma-no-hand</a><br>
<br>
Anyone know anything about these guys? They basically claim that with<br>
the addition of an accelerometer, they are able to get "EKG quality"<br>
heart-rate data using optical techniques on your wrist. The<br>
accelerometer basically allows them to compensate for the effects of<br>
motion. I'm a little skeptical, there many many teams working on this<br>
kind of thing, some for YEARS, and I haven't seen any successes yet...<br>
what makes their tech better? It worries me that their "testing QA" is<br>
still in the future, I wonder how much testing they have actually done<br>
so far? This tech is easy in theory, but super super difficult in<br>
practice...<br>
<br>
(see for instance <a href="https://mybasis.com/" target="_blank">https://mybasis.com/</a> - still letting you "Reserve Now"<br>
almost two years after the initially promised launch date... now<br>
refusing to even offer estimated launch dates... they do deserve some<br>
credit for NOT launching a half-baked crappy product, of course :-)<br>
<br>
Eric<br>
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