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September 13, 2006
The Health ipod
So with Apple announcing the availability of movie downloads, new ipods and media devices, is it long before they move beyond the partnership with Nike and create the health ipod. The health ipod could monitor vital statistics and adjust the music to your current state and even suggest a movie that would help relieve any perceived stress. Why not an ipod that gives you an estimated mortality date based on the information it's picking up from your body. Just had a cigarette, watch the death clock tick down ever so slightly.
With more and more people using ipods for more and more things, it's not that far fetched to think that the ipod, not the traditional mobile phone will be the platform for mobile health applications and services.
Mark Carpenter
Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab
markcarp@stanford.edu
Posted by Mark at September 13, 2006 01:41 PM