Avant-garde glove to monitor your heart rate

Heart patients, if you are looking ahead to get some device to monitor your heartbeat in the comfort of your home, Wearable Technologies Congress in Munich, Germany has introduced this new heartbeat monitoring gadget that fits in your hand like a glove, apparently just for you. Developed by the German company Beurer GmbH, this PM100 Pulse Monitoring Glove functions via Plethysmography to record your heart rate and comes bundled with an in-built sensor that measures reflected light from the bloodstream inside a vein of your finger. By just inserting some values like your age and weight, this portable device or watch can calculate your maximum heart rate, calorie consumption and recovery tests when exercising and features clock, stopwatch and alarms to wake you up early in the morning and all this in just a few hundred dollars. Via: Slipperybrick