The Smartphone and Your Health

The smartphone is powered by a chip which is more powerful than the one powering the space craft Voyager 1 which recently left the solar system. Yes that is the kind of computing power that your mobile smartphone has.

While you may not be looking to launch space crafts for exploration of outer space anytime soon, you can still do a multitude of things with your smartphone that will better help you utilize it’s untapped potential. Trust me, you can do a lot more than update your social media status with your smartphone which will be beneficial to you.

One such field is your health. The smartphone comes equipped with sensors that can be linked with medical apps that allow you to better understand the functioning of your body. They can remind you to take your pills, monitor your heart beats and even tell you just how many calories you burnt when you last exercised.

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering is actually using smartphone in a scientific study to help them track the physical activities of volunteers in more than a hundred countries. One of the more illustrative manners in which a smartphone can be put to really good use.