A Wife, Three Kids, and a Mortgage » Technology http://www.brandonabbott.org Where Normal Is The New Rebellion Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:20:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Turn Your Head And Cough http://www.brandonabbott.org/turn-your-head-and-cough/ http://www.brandonabbott.org/turn-your-head-and-cough/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:33:27 +0000 Brandon Abbott http://www.brandonabbott.org/turn-your-head-and-cough/ iphone_cough

Hey, this is cool for all you mobile phone junkies. An app that listens to your cough and tells you how sick you are.

Now what would be impressive is if it could hear me burp and tell me what I had for lunch!

Post below . . .

Mobile Application to Diagnose Disease by Hearing you Cough

Read the whole post on ReadWriteWeb

Feeling a bit under the weather? Soon you’ll be able to cough into your mobile phone for an instant diagnosis. A research firm called STAR Analytical Services is working to develop software that can analyze the sound of a cough and identify it as either associated with a common cold, the flu, or something worse – like pneumonia or another serious respiratory disease. Just as doctors have been doing for years, the software will “listen” to the wetness or dryness of a cough and determine whether all you need is a lozenge or if you need to come in for a doctor’s visit instead. (more)

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