I look forward to the day when a computer will sense what’s wrong with me and prescribe a solution, whether it be a prescription, a trip to the ER, a good night’s sleep, or a lengthy discussion about my childhood.
As we head there in baby steps, there’s this. A device of such obviously clinical design that it almost can’t live in plain sight in any household. It screams “I need constant medical attention” but it also represents one more step towards effective remote diagnosis.
I believe iRobot is working on a robot for health care purposes and I bet this is the sort of application for which it is being designed. My other guess is that it is designed to pump epinephrine into the hearts of overdose victims ala Pulp Fiction, but while that vision is the stuff of future-shock sci-fi horror magic, I somehow doubt that’s the case.
In the meantime, as we struggle to help companies establish connections with their customers, it looks like Pharma (doctors, actually) may establish the most wired remote connection of them all. Wouldn’t everyone like a feedback mechanism that tells them how their product is working? Frankly, I’d probably let them plant a tiny sensor in my noggin if it meant I never saw another popup “how do you like our website” survey ever again.
Apple is looking at this and thinking they can do it all with an iPhone