The Digital Human Interface Is Already Here

In Las Vegas this week , the world's largest "techy" trade show premiers with the latest gadgets in high technology to be revealed at the CES. As the challenges of health and wellness stack up against the average person in a post-modern world, perhaps technology will make up for the losing battle of losing weight, controlling calories and monitoring heart disease as easy as clicking a mouse. New technologies that count the number of times you chew your food from a digital counter placed on a fork or new metabolic monitors worn simply and utilized to see if you over ate too many calories or have an imbalanced metabolism are all readily available at the CES trade show. These technologies and others such as pulse oximetry that reads blood gases(from the lungs CO2 and 0xygen) and dyno-map that can determine blood pressure used already in hospital ICUs will open up a flood gate on body monitoring in real time. As most of us are fast paced and on the go and hardly have time to sit, watch television, do work , watch our caloric intake , basal metabolic rate or blood pressure: these type of technologies will cross the divide. Now, you can have technology that will adapt all information from your smart phone. There is little doubt that your medical doctor, clinic, hospital , 3rd party providers or others that have corporate interst in your health status will soon have access to these data to read from to determine your health status and your impact on society. It is the realistic world we live in and only at the tip of the iceberg. For example, distant-surgery can be done by virtual technology. Once a robot has been programmed to stereotopically map the normal human anatomy, the computer will take over the surgery. But, before we get ahead of ourselves, simple smart-technology(nano-technology) will be available to determine and detect not only the caloric quantity , but the caloric quality. That is reading cholesterol, triglyceride and glucose levels in real time as your exercise counter counts how many steps you will need to take to burn those extra calories. At the fast food restaurant , your "chew monitor" will determine how well you eat or if you overate. Other digital technology via your smart phone might be able to do a small radio scan on your bones or a small ECG(electrocardiogram), or sound wave study(ECHO) on your heart. These data will be fed into a major super database where both physicians and other health monitoring profilers can determine your status in "real time". You don't need to look any further than the CES trade show in Las Vegas to find out whats next to be on your smart phone in the "Super Smart Era" of technology and health.