Post your life signs on Twitter

A Japanese group called the Koress Project have announced development of a tiny little box that posts your heartrate to Twitter, so your friends and loved ones can see how you’re doing. The Akiduki Pulse Box, as it’s called, requires a heart monitor to work, but takes care of posting details about your health for you.

The Akiduki Pulse Box is 100% open source, and Koress is already making plans to commercialize the device and even hold seminars to teach others how to manufacture the device themselves. The device’s running joke is that if your heart should stop beating, all of …read more