{"id":1077,"date":"2016-05-25T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:31:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:31:20","slug":"chem-phys-patch-monitors-electrocardiogram-heart-signals-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/chem-phys-patch-monitors-electrocardiogram-heart-signals-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"Chem-Phys Patch Monitors Electrocardiogram Heart Signals As You Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of fitness trackers you find people wearing today are capable of performing simple tasks, most notably tracking how many steps the user takes in a day.<\/p>\n<p>However, researchers from the University of California, San Diego set out to create a more robust fitness tracking system in the Chem-Phys patch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2016\/160523\/ncomms11650\/full\/ncomms11650.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Released today<\/a>, research suggests the Chem-Phys patch will monitor electrocardiogram heart signals and a user&#8217;s levels of lactate, simply by being attached to a user&#8217;s chest.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the new wearable patch will be able to monitor the chemicals in our sweat and then send the data it collects to a user&#8217;s smartphone app.<\/p>\n<p>While it may not seem like a major wearable fitness breakthrough, the Chem-Phys patch is unique in its ability to gather heart rate info and body chemical data simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of fitness trackers you find people wearing today are capable of performing simple tasks, most notably tracking how many steps the user takes in a day. However, researchers from the University of California, San Diego set out to create a more robust fitness tracking system in the Chem-Phys patch. Released today, research suggests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,58],"tags":[554,555],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}