New Video Tech Can Check Your Heartbeat Without Touch
The device picks up information on the colors of light reflected off your skin.
The beating of our heart can be seen in our faces. It's not visible to the human eye, but a new device captures the hidden phenomenon, offering a potentially powerful way to measure a heartbeat without even touching the body.
As blood pumps through our veins, it subtly changes the color of our skin. That change, however, is so minute that we can't see it with the naked eye.
"We don’t notice slight changes in color," Nate Ruben, alumnus of electrical engineering at and co-founder of a start-up company called Photorithm Inc., told . "We’re very good at measuring depth and contrasting things [with our eyes] because that’s what we’re designed to do." A world of tiny shifts happening all the time is beyond our visual grasp.
