Amazon has unveiled a connected home air quality monitor that works with the Alexa virtual assistant.
The monitor can measure particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, humidity and temperature.
The device doesn’t have its own microphone, so it connects to an Alexa-enabled device or the Alexa app to provide alerts if air quality is poor. Users can also check an air quality...
Despite lockdowns during the pandemic, air pollution is not improving as experts initially hoped and climate change is the primary culprit.
As climate change worsens natural catastrophes like wildfires and droughts, air quality declines. Even for healthy adults, this does not bode well for respiratory health.
In answer, innovators are looking to help people stay informed via digital tools like...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has published two new related patents from Apple that suggest the company might be working on chemical smell sensors, which could have a variety of uses within healthcare. One patent even suggests that by analyzing sweat particles in the air the sensor could deduce blood sugar levels.
The patent applications were submitted in late 2018 but were just published on...
