The bizarre flashing lights on a smartwatch

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    Smart watches use a flashing green light to measure your heart rate and a red and infarred light to measure your oxygen saturation. The way it works is really clever.
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  • @SteveMould
    @SteveMould  Рік тому +235

    Check out Andrew's video here: ua-cam.com/video/fDj2kYIF-sE/v-deo.html and his python code is here: github.com/ajsteele/faceHR
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    • @anthonylosego
      @anthonylosego Рік тому +1

      The only code problem I see is that he spelled colors wrong. There is no u in colors. At least he got cvtColor correct. ;-)

    • @samditto
      @samditto Рік тому

      @@anthonylosego bludy ell, wot a nonce this bugga is

    • @QIKUGAMES-QIKU
      @QIKUGAMES-QIKU Рік тому +1

      ☝ that card thing you pointed at didn't work ? Nothing came up there. Remember to Reverse your sides when pointing or you have to flip your video in editing

    • @kashmirha
      @kashmirha Рік тому +1

      Professor Mold :D

    • @civilisedzombie
      @civilisedzombie Рік тому +2

      Vertical is intensity and horizontal is time.

  • @Sleighbells96
    @Sleighbells96 Рік тому +2705

    The labels on the graph killed me, as someone whose studying to be an engineer I’m definitely gonna steal those for my charts

    • @ThePoushal
      @ThePoushal Рік тому +17

      Future Arup employee

    • @AndreasNortham3906
      @AndreasNortham3906 Рік тому +12

      Theranus

    • @bruhmania7359
      @bruhmania7359 Рік тому +4

      @@VladimirPani yeah that's why he's an engineer and you're a starbucks employee

    • @liaeys
      @liaeys Рік тому

      @@VladimirPani my guy needs to retake english

    • @Monkey_Luffy01
      @Monkey_Luffy01 Рік тому +1

      -\_(シ)_/-
      Time, I guess

  • @DrAndrewSteele
    @DrAndrewSteele Рік тому +538

    Thanks for having me! Honestly the most fun I’ve had strapping electrodes to someone and filming it.

    • @johnnyjoevazquez
      @johnnyjoevazquez Рік тому +3

      The military will definitely use/steal this tech my guy

    • @3dprintworld503
      @3dprintworld503 Рік тому +4

      dude, why do you have less replies than me my guy?

  • @salt-emoji
    @salt-emoji Рік тому +3125

    If you've ever listened to a heart for a long period of time, it's kinda scary how irregular they are, but that's how they work

    • @FSM_Reviews
      @FSM_Reviews Рік тому +366

      Sometimes I can feel it too. Some pauses are ever so slightly longer, and some are ever so slightly shorter. It happens more often when I'm nervous, anxious, or otherwise distressed in some way.

    • @iliyashapirov7720
      @iliyashapirov7720 Рік тому +166

      My heart beats 2-3 times faster when I'm breathing in

    • @finleysmurflton4851
      @finleysmurflton4851 Рік тому +202

      Anybody who’s gotten WAY too high can attest to this

    • @noctisumbra4656
      @noctisumbra4656 Рік тому +57

      Have you ever heard a newborn's heart? And not only their heart, their kind of respiration it's scary

    • @a0zhar
      @a0zhar Рік тому +71

      @@noctisumbra4656newborn’s are dark art

  • @TopSpot123
    @TopSpot123 Рік тому +432

    In case you are interested, there are other examples of pulse taking using cameras in the world of video games. The Kinect 2.0 was purported to be sensitive enough to read the color variations of the skin to estimate pulse readings, very much like what was shown here. But the Xbox fitness app that used it was discontinued before I'd tested it.
    Ring Fit Adventure on the Nintendo Switch uses the simple IR camera built into one of the controllers to read pulse rate at the fingertips.

    • @Fullchaos40
      @Fullchaos40 Рік тому +4

      Phone cameras already over compensate on the green and red to make pictures better 🤔

    • @GoTeamScotch
      @GoTeamScotch Рік тому +30

      The kinect 2 was such a cool piece of tech at the time that went woefully underutilized. Too bad it didn't catch on.

    • @tams805
      @tams805 Рік тому +17

      @@GoTeamScotch The botched launch of the Xbox One forcing people to use Kinect probably didn't help. It tarnished the 'Kinect' brand.
      A shame, as it was a great bit of kit, but unlike PSVR, Microsoft didn't really try to make it stand on its own.

    • @silpheedTandy
      @silpheedTandy Рік тому +9

      i'd like to see a survival-horror game that somehow used pulse information to find the most optimal way to scare its players (via things like music, etc) and give them nightmares..

    • @prateekpanwar646
      @prateekpanwar646 Рік тому +7

      If Microsoft marketed Kinect towards students, IOT developers. It’d have sold a lot more.

  • @gallium-gonzollium
    @gallium-gonzollium Рік тому +57

    2:31 “And obviously if the premature baby has a beard like this, you would shave it”
    I wheezed at this

    • @slidey1788
      @slidey1788 18 днів тому

      Never shave a baby......

  • @Phroggster
    @Phroggster Рік тому +848

    A graph of "shrugging emoticon" over "time I guess" is so perfect. Thanks for labeling your axes, and using the correct units Steve. That made me very happy.
    It may take some time, but someday in the not-too far off future, I imagine every room will have some form of sensors built-in. It's going to take some clever data scientists, like your guest here, to turn the resulting mess of data into useful information. But that information could be used to do things like call the paramedics if someone's heart rhythm goes arrhythmic. That's pretty cool on its own, but it's also one step closer to a Roddenberry-esque post-scarcity eutopia, and I'm all for it. Well, at least perhaps until the advertisers get ahold of the sensor data.

    • @__--__
      @__--__ Рік тому +34

      I'm sure insurance companies would this data! Having this in their consulting room and they may rethink your low premiums.

    • @Wander4P
      @Wander4P Рік тому +9

      It's like Apple's performance graphs

    • @JudgeDeadMJ
      @JudgeDeadMJ Рік тому +47

      that sounds extremely dystopian

    • @thePronto
      @thePronto Рік тому +22

      "Tricorder readings indicate that you should stay away from the Captain."
      "Why is that Mr Spock?"
      "You are ovulating, Lieutenant, and he is a hound dog."

    • @rockets4kids
      @rockets4kids Рік тому +6

      It may take some time, but someday in the not-too far off future, this is how the robots will able to detect the replicants.

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis Рік тому +68

    Superb video. This heart stuff sounds fascinating. But don't think I'm not silently judging you both for not even attempting to say "photoplethysmography" once during the video.

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  Рік тому +47

      Andrew actually said it many times. I cut it out for time/because I was jealous that I couldn't say it.

  • @francesco10797
    @francesco10797 Рік тому +47

    Six or seven years ago I was attending engineering master thesis dissertations in the Trento University and one of the candidates proposed a similar method to monitor - using a very low resolutions webcam - the heartbeats of bus drivers, as an extra safety measure for public transportation. I was very surprised because it worked!

    • @goku445
      @goku445 3 місяці тому +2

      "the heartbeats of bus drivers"
      How would you use such data?

    • @davidrenton
      @davidrenton Місяць тому +1

      @@goku445 maybe you could tie in with gradual breaking, throttle limits, if it detected unusual out of limits results, the difference being , it does'nt require anything to be worn, or attached to the driver, just a camera device looking at the driver

  • @BloodyMobile
    @BloodyMobile Рік тому +179

    You can tell Andrew is a data guy from the way he talks about a simple graph of numbers.

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT Рік тому +237

    I thought it was interesting, I had a phone app *YEARS* ago that would detect your heart rate based on video - long before the Apple Watch or Fitbit existed. Comparing to an actual real medical-grade heart rate monitor, it was extremely accurate. I have to imagine it used similar processing to this.

    • @danfr
      @danfr Рік тому +23

      You can still do that today in Google Fit even without buying a smartwatch.

    • @tams805
      @tams805 Рік тому +18

      Samsung did a bit of a better job of that with the Note 4/Note Edge, which had an infra-red sensor on the back.
      It was faff though, just like those apps that use normal camera sensors, so not worth doing.

    • @mrbouncelol
      @mrbouncelol Рік тому +11

      Legend has it that ancient man developed the closely guarded secret technique of feeling one's wrist

    • @SahilP2648
      @SahilP2648 Рік тому +3

      @@danfr yes but using your phone's camera plus the torch is different than what the guy is describing and this video because there's a lot of difference in accuracy in both scenarios.

    • @SahilP2648
      @SahilP2648 Рік тому +4

      @@tams805 no it does work. It's as good as your smartwatch but it won't monitor it continuously obviously unless you want to press your phone against your finger all the time.

  • @wartface20
    @wartface20 Рік тому +25

    Super cool video! One note if people are curious, the change in heart rate with breathing is known as respirophasic sinus arrhythmia. It is regulated by baroreceptors, so when you inhale, the negative pressure decreases the signaling from these receptors to the brain, which is similar to a low arterial pressure signal, which activates the sympathetic response and speeds up your heart rate to compensate. When you exhale, your thoracic pressure increases, which increases the baroreceptor signaling and increases the parasympathetic response to decrease your heart rate.

    • @DrAndrewSteele
      @DrAndrewSteele Рік тому +4

      This is totally what I meant to say
      (Anatomy and physiology are amazing! I wish I knew some more. :) )

    • @marky5493
      @marky5493 Рік тому +1

      That's super interesting, so if you had to get inflammation say, in the chest wall for exzample would that effect the breathing rate solely through the strength of signal or rather by the pain experienced and so changing your breathing differently?
      How does your resting heart rate change then when u excersise more? Is it related to your fat content also changing the signal.
      I'm not a docter, but I find these things super, super intresting and I'm always looking for more knowdagble people reasons:)

  • @snazzypazzy
    @snazzypazzy Рік тому +72

    This was really interesting, and also explained to me why the pulse ox meter is not accurate in cases of CO poisoning. Red bloodcells with CO bound are still red, that's why people suffering from CO poisoning don't look like they are suffocating, they have perfectly healty looking skin tones.

  • @therealchayd
    @therealchayd Рік тому +586

    Next question: How does a smart watch measure blood pressure? I think it also uses light, and no doubt there are a ton of scientific papers out there mentioning things like photoplethysmography but no layman-level explanation which you are brilliant at delivering 😊

    • @matt2483
      @matt2483 Рік тому +46

      Afaik the only smart watches that measure blood pressure use the same technique that a inflatable blood pressure cuff uses. I could be out of the loop though and a watch that can do blood pressure with only light would be awesome to know about!

    • @DrAndrewSteele
      @DrAndrewSteele Рік тому +101

      With difficulty! They basically try to measure the exact shape of that graph of light brightness against time, and depending on whether it’s skewed one way or the other infer the blood pressure using _(waves hands)_ algorithms. They’re not very accurate yet though, and you have to recalibrate them every few weeks with a traditional blood pressure cuff.

    • @Masalmeh321
      @Masalmeh321 Рік тому +112

      I did a whole thesis on this exact topic, turns out you can infer blood pressure by measuring PPG and ECG together, then measuring the time delay between the peaks. That is a crude measurement of the PWV (pulse wave velocity) of your blood going from the heart to the extremity where you're measuring PPG (ECG peaks will always lead PPG peaks). Calibrating for arterial distensibility (strechiness) and temperature and age and baseline and a bunch of other things, and using a complicated model you can MAYBE get something somewhat accurate (I used a medical-grade continuous blood pressure measurement device called the Finapress as a gold standard reference). The ECG/PPG technique was rough though honestly and not something you'd wanna trust if you even so much as breathe heavily.

    • @ThePrufessa
      @ThePrufessa Рік тому +10

      @@Masalmeh321 can these lights detect how much alcohol is in the blood?

    • @Masalmeh321
      @Masalmeh321 Рік тому +21

      @@ThePrufessa wasn't my focus at the time but Google scholar shows that some work was done on this! The slope of the PPG graph seems to change before and after alcohol consumption so using that fact, 80%+ accuracy was achieved in computing BAC (blood alcohol content). Interesting stuff indeed.

  • @Jcrash1
    @Jcrash1 Рік тому +6

    This is one of those few videos you come across that you feel genuinely deserves a like button. Extremely well done, very informative, learned a lot of new things about biometrics and data analysis

  • @plasmalink
    @plasmalink Рік тому +90

    One correction for you Steve, for pulse Ox, the sensing still requires the ambient light measurement. The ambient component needs to be removed from the red and IR because it can induce a signal into the red and IR sensors when the environment is bright enough. It's also used as a way to offset the red and IR signals when near saturation and used to detect dark room environments vs bright room environments. Some sensors automatically remove the ambient component and don't report it, but it is still needed for proper measurement.

  • @matthewseymour8972
    @matthewseymour8972 Рік тому +3

    The banter at the end of this was really enjoyable

  • @Littlewing6was9
    @Littlewing6was9 Рік тому +8

    Your video amplification presentation was fascinating but this is something else.

  • @slembcke
    @slembcke Рік тому +36

    Ooooh. I've worked with some biosignal stuff before, and have been curious if this was possible too. Also fun fact, you can get the respiration directly from a PPG signal (instead of the heart rate variability) using a bandpass filter that removes the higher frequencies from the heartbeat. It works surprisingly well, though the sensor has to stay pretty still for it to work.

  • @d5kenn
    @d5kenn Рік тому +9

    I have one of those athlete sport watches that can measure HR and sPO2 24/7 and I never knew exactly how they worked before. I had no idea that watching this video would be so informative. Thanks!

  • @silentracer911
    @silentracer911 Рік тому +25

    Thanks for letting us know a little of what technology we have on our wrists

    • @goku445
      @goku445 3 місяці тому

      That's way too much data to trust a connected device.

  • @AndrewDoherty
    @AndrewDoherty Рік тому +6

    Let's get this working on videos of politicians lying when asked certain questions. No seriously. Let's.

  • @Kobe8DaGreat24
    @Kobe8DaGreat24 4 місяці тому +1

    Them lights be going off when my watch is just laying in my bed by itself

  • @wilsonchentas
    @wilsonchentas Рік тому +12

    Hey this is exactly what my startup does!
    The technique is called rPPG, which is remote PPG, or photoplethysmography, which is what the Apple Watch is based on. Super stoked you've decided to showcase this in your video!

    • @GadgetBoy
      @GadgetBoy Рік тому

      @@steve_mould. Feck off, scammer.

    • @Manic97LP
      @Manic97LP Рік тому

      What is the name of your startup, and when will your software be available? :D

  • @Cyberguy42
    @Cyberguy42 Рік тому +7

    I saw a very similar use of color change amplification to measure pulse about 10 years ago, the code was written by some grad students for a computer vision class.

  • @tedapke6519
    @tedapke6519 Рік тому +10

    I get so excited when I see you have a new video posted. The things you talk about are just so interesting and well explained. Thanks for all the work you put into this.

  • @marcoottina654
    @marcoottina654 Рік тому +28

    The amount of complexity, calculations, adaptation to variations and ingenuity on "crossed scientific branches" in a single device is ... striking, totally awesome and inspiring! I wish to know more, even the mathematics behind it!
    LOVELY

  • @davidg5898
    @davidg5898 Рік тому +5

    7:04 I love the axes. 🤣

  • @pnumenwiese
    @pnumenwiese Рік тому +3

    I was always wonder why my heart beats slightly faster when I breathe in.. thank you for this and all the other explanations! You both are great together!

  • @Kaynstein
    @Kaynstein Рік тому +4

    Human ingenuity is so fascinating. Another great video, steve!

  • @shareurtube
    @shareurtube Рік тому

    Most fascinating video I have seen in some time. As someone who has worked in a refinery if loved the scene of the piping and pump. Most likely their is an application for analysis equipment failure. Great job Andrew on the Python Code.

  • @TheLocalDJ
    @TheLocalDJ Рік тому +1

    It made me so happy to see R being used for cool novel ideas like this. Great video!

  •  Рік тому +4

    I love how you meet up with other smart people to do all these interesting stuff i could never even understand

  • @00Skyfox
    @00Skyfox Рік тому +3

    Hearing that the heart speeds up during a breath taken in explains so much! For years whenever I'd listen to my dog's heart (either dog) I noticed that every time he/she took a breath, there would be about 3 heartbeats quickly in the same space of time they had a single heartbeat when not taking a breath. Cool info!

    • @goku445
      @goku445 3 місяці тому +1

      Easy to see if you hold your breath.

  • @Ylyrra
    @Ylyrra Рік тому

    Those may have been the funniest outtakes I've seen in a long time, thank you for including them!

  • @jannooosthuizen6588
    @jannooosthuizen6588 Рік тому +2

    Finally, thank you. I sort of had an idea how it works but you really clarified it

  • @Luftbubblan
    @Luftbubblan Рік тому +7

    About the color strength, have you ever thought about bayermatrix? Since regular cameras are often tuned with one extra green pixel over red and blue(RGGB). In astrophotography we usually remove green noise due to this. And this is also a reason why we instead use mono cameras to make use of ALL pixel from chip.

  • @TheMilanMovies
    @TheMilanMovies Рік тому +9

    9:37 Thanks, this will haunt my worst nightmares now

    • @Wombat627
      @Wombat627 Рік тому

      If it illuminated the blood vessels, i would have just Thanos snap myself then and there.

    • @Tarika916
      @Tarika916 Місяць тому

      Someone needs to make this a creepy pasta

  • @c4sper877
    @c4sper877 Рік тому +1

    Lol, the outtakes at the end was brilliant. The banter between you pair was hilarious 😂

  • @kukunishad
    @kukunishad Рік тому

    One of the best video I watched on YT !!! Thanks Steve & Andrew ❤

  • @cratecruncher6687
    @cratecruncher6687 Рік тому +6

    Great episode. I recently bought a smart watch that was having trouble reading some of my vitals. Now that I know the science behind the sensors I realize my $18 watch may not be the value I thought it was. Also, that KiwiCo stuff makes me want to be 8 years old again!

  • @supergiantbubbles
    @supergiantbubbles Рік тому +3

    I really appreciate how you break your videos down. You make science approachable, fun and cool. Thanks!

  • @212-3
    @212-3 Рік тому +1

    This channel definitely deserves more recognition

  • @e1123581321345589144
    @e1123581321345589144 Рік тому +2

    2:44 love the voyager plaque on the back of the laptop

  • @SecularMentat
    @SecularMentat Рік тому +5

    I really loved the Axis labels here. One is definitely 'absorbance at a given frequency of light' the other is 'time I guess'. :D

  • @aspidoscelistigris
    @aspidoscelistigris Рік тому +6

    Fun fact: you can see your heart beats by color changes in your own visual field. Easiest if looking at a white background, takes some attention and the ability to keep your gaze steady for a while.

  • @kurtnelle
    @kurtnelle Рік тому

    I JUST got a watch like that. So timely Mr Mould. Thank you.

  • @Bobbyo2014
    @Bobbyo2014 Рік тому +2

    As a person with a complicated cardiovascular condition this had given me some great insight into how some devices work and how the medical system can monitor and maintain my current physiology. I have a condition called HLHS.

  • @Anklejbiter
    @Anklejbiter Рік тому +97

    When I hold my breath, I always figured my heartrate would go down because it has access to a lot of oxygen. but i couldnt figure out why it would go up instead. but having less space makes a lot of sense!

    • @CubicSpline7713
      @CubicSpline7713 Рік тому +23

      Here's a thing:
      My heart rate drops significantly when I hold my breath.
      This was observed by a doctor many years ago, and he commented that this phenomenon is common in infants. But they "grow" out of it as they reach adolescence apparently.
      He told me that I have kept the infant behavior (nothing to worry about), but interesting. BTW, I am over 50.

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough Рік тому +2

      @@CubicSpline7713 Weird!

    • @GlacialScion
      @GlacialScion Рік тому +4

      @@CubicSpline7713
      I think that's probably from taking a deep enough breath to stimulate the Vagus nerve.

    • @cavemann_
      @cavemann_ Рік тому

      @@CubicSpline7713 That's so cool! You must be really good at holding your breath underwater.

    • @MikkoRantalainen
      @MikkoRantalainen Рік тому

      I think the heartrate will go up with CO2 in your blood. When you hold your breath, the CO2 concentration will obviously go up.

  • @amberkatanimations6585
    @amberkatanimations6585 Рік тому +7

    I always assumed the reason your heart pumped harder when you breathe in is that it just got a bunch of oxygen and needs to deliver it. Turns out i was proved wrong. Thank you for the cool information, and awesome video!

    • @bosstowndynamics5488
      @bosstowndynamics5488 6 місяців тому

      They actually got that backwards - your heart pumps harder and *slower* on breathing in because you chest expands, which doesn't just suck in air but it also sucks blood in from the rest of your body into the heart, meaning each heart beat pumps more blood so it can go slower

  • @Hellefleur
    @Hellefleur Рік тому +1

    Thank you for the related video!!! I returned a smart watch because it was terrible at tracking heart rate but I'm now using a better one. This is still great info to learn as I'm within the return window.

  • @OneZoNinja
    @OneZoNinja Рік тому

    I have absorbed so much of the information you have distributed through your videos. Such a wide array of knowledge that I will surely pass on to my son.

  • @TotallyGenericName
    @TotallyGenericName Рік тому +4

    I already knew how the sensors worked but your video still made it fascinating. Very well illustrated and some great footage. Too bad we didn't get the IR view motion-amplified as well!

  • @abhilashasinha5186
    @abhilashasinha5186 Рік тому +3

    1:08 Red lights and invisible (IR) lights are used in pulse oximeters to measure blood oxygen.

  • @dylan-5287
    @dylan-5287 Рік тому

    Awesome video. Love having a smart watch and always wondered about the green vs red light and how it actually worked.

  • @moonscar119
    @moonscar119 Рік тому

    I love your videos. You break things down so well. Any other person's video would be twice as long with unnecessary fluff

  • @TurpInTexas
    @TurpInTexas Рік тому +50

    I had a Fitbit I wore for a few years that was recalled (and they refunded 100% even though it was a few years old) that Fitbit claimed had battery issues where it could get hot and burn the user. Well mine never got hot, and I only wore it during the daytime when I was awake, never at night sleeping. The first year or so, no problems at all, but about 6 months before the recall I developed this lump directly on my arm directly underneath the fitbit that looked like a RF radiation burn. The reason I said that, was because back in the 1980's I worked on 2-way radio transmitters and occasionally would accidently bump up against an antenna that was transmitting and would get burns under my skin. It isn't a burn by surface heat but deep heating due to absorption of RF energy by the living tissues underneath. Since the surface of the skin is relatively dry it isn't harmed but the living tissue under the skin suffers damage causing a deep sore, which takes a while to heal. I had this same strange occurance so I stopped wearing the fitbit and after 3 or 4 months, the lump started oozing pus for a month or so, then finally healed up and went away. There were some articles that claim it was cancer, but I really don't feel it was that, but if my guess is correct, I'm guessing a glitch caused the one of those high energy diodes to get stuck on (which also could explain the battery overheating issue Fitbit mentioned) and radiating the tissue underneath causing a nasty radiation burn. Regardless, I realize nothing is perfect, crap happens, and I feel the benefit of smart watches still outweighs the potential risk of new technology possibly malfunctioning as I think mine may have done (I have no proof that is what truly happened but clearly something was weird was going on) and they will save way more lives as the technology is perfected.

    • @SunilKumar-nf7ft
      @SunilKumar-nf7ft Рік тому +4

      I was using samsung watch 3 for a few months and I used to wear it during the day and also while sleeping. I had the continuous measurement turned on so the green light was on all the time.
      I started noticing some kind of a spot right underneath the light, it wasn't causing any issues but it was kind of itchy and looked different. I stopped wearing the watch all the time and it went away.

    • @sdlion7287
      @sdlion7287 Рік тому +4

      or it might have been an allergy or a reaction to some compound formed in the metal contacts (charging pins)... or just an ant/spider.
      Sunlight is far stronger than these red/ir/green LEDs, and yes, the sun is shining also in red/ir/green light (and lower and higher). Even talking about sunscreen to avoid sunburns: it only blocks very high frequency light, ultraviolet. How do you we know? because we can see the original skin color beneath the sunscreen (you can see UV cameras youtube videos to see how effective they are at blocking UV).
      And well those are not high energy diodes. I guess you have in mind the high *power* diodes used for emitting/rectifying RF, but you would know the comparatively high power you were using for transmission vs the dozens of mW that a LED dissipates (and you know power dissipation is not the same as power output).

    • @TurpInTexas
      @TurpInTexas Рік тому +1

      @Sdlion while anything is possible the problem with your theory is the skin surface was fine, the issue was deeper under the surface of the skin like it had been irradiated.

    • @sdlion7287
      @sdlion7287 Рік тому +2

      @@TurpInTexas like getting a splinter?
      I mean, that sounds as nothing out of the ordinary. Might not be the most common of irritation / infection, but certainly something that we all some times experience in our life, with or without a bio smart watch .
      And there's no theory in correcting that is not a high power/energy led... you can literally search for the datasheet of the led drivers those devices use and the leds they use. And you worked with RF you should know the power relation and the safety rules regarding power RF devices.

    • @amyalewine
      @amyalewine Рік тому +1

      @@sdlion7287 Sun is the best medicine on the planet. They have lied and programmed people to put on sun glasses that stop light from entering the eyes. Also sunblock causes cancer not the Sun. The Sun can cause damage if you allow it to burn your skin. Otherwise it is the best medicine that our Western medical system has lied to everyone about.

  • @olivier2553
    @olivier2553 Рік тому +3

    I think I saw something similar a couple of years ago, but it was more nefarious, like using that same detection of the change of colour of the face due to blood pulse for spying.

  • @Monkey_D_Luffy56
    @Monkey_D_Luffy56 Рік тому

    Steve is the most serious and goofy person I know 🤣
    I'm glad that I discovered this channel from Smarter Everyday

  • @go64bit
    @go64bit Рік тому +1

    I often thought it must be motion amplification via phase difference of light wavelengths, but boy this was mind blowing. I really could use this information.

  • @1over137
    @1over137 Рік тому +7

    7:09 I did have a good laugh. Well, they always tell you that YOU MUST have labels on your axis. Yours make perfect sense. I am going to borrow this. I have an electrical consumption graph (a non zero derivative) that is "meant" to be viewed over 24 hours with window sizes of 1 hour. So it's units are kwh/h ... but if you zoom in or out it starts reading in units of -\_(:-))_/-

  • @thatguy431
    @thatguy431 Рік тому +4

    My physics teacher is yelling at you for the axis labels! XD nice!

  • @weston8751
    @weston8751 Рік тому

    I learned a lot from this video about how things work and what they can be used for! That's so cool!

  • @kliajesal4592
    @kliajesal4592 8 місяців тому +1

    The fact that your smartwatch is seeing all of this information and transmitting it back to its parent company is truly terrifying. Why do people willingly give this to tech giants?

  • @tristanwegner
    @tristanwegner Рік тому +11

    I think the flash green light could also be energy saving, as you just need a few samples per second the deduce the hear rate.

    • @vappyreon1176
      @vappyreon1176 Рік тому

      Turning something on and off rapidly doesn't save much energy, and in some cases uses more. Especially with a tiny led

    • @JasonRennieWTF
      @JasonRennieWTF Рік тому +1

      @@vappyreon1176 that’s not correct

    • @vappyreon1176
      @vappyreon1176 Рік тому

      @@JasonRennieWTF clock chips draw power, and it's literally a tiny led. Idk if you're new to LEDs but they're pretty light on power draw all things considered

    • @tristanwegner
      @tristanwegner Рік тому +2

      @@vappyreon1176 That is not true at all. LEDs are typically dimmed by pulse width modulation - turning them on and off very quickly. And it saves power proportional to the reduced light output.

  • @PranjalSengupta
    @PranjalSengupta Рік тому +4

    8:36 Will the ups and downs of the infra red line be reversed as compared to the red line?

  • @albertsitoe7340
    @albertsitoe7340 Рік тому

    High quality information 🥸 Thanks Steve!

  • @aphilemadikizela8088
    @aphilemadikizela8088 Рік тому

    This is an unexpectedly quick answer to a question I have had for a really short time and I'm amazed with how this all works

  • @placebomessiah
    @placebomessiah Рік тому +3

    One of the problems I have with the wristwatch optical sensors vs the electrical chest sensors is that while I'm trail running, unless the watch is uncomfortably tight to my wrist, the amount of signal processing to extract the heartrate from the constant rhythmic jostling of the optics against my wrist is going to yield a pretty rough guess polluted with rapid movement (low frequency noise, coherent to a heartbeat's bandwidth), whereas the chest strap, is relying on a more consistent electrical capacitance undulation despite vibration. Wavelet conformity during periods of high activity is easier to pull from the electrical measurement whereas you can induce perceived arrhythmia within the data of a bouncing optical sensor.

    • @tams805
      @tams805 Рік тому +1

      It's best to just continue using an ECG chest strap. Really, it's always best to use one if you care about accuracy. As long as it's kept adequately lubricated. The only time it's really an issue is when swimming, especially pool swimming (well, and obviously high diving).

    • @placebomessiah
      @placebomessiah Рік тому

      @@tams805 oya hard to get a pulse when the strap is around ur ankles

  • @SojournerDidimus
    @SojournerDidimus Рік тому +2

    9:18 the smartwatch is actually seeing a *two* pixel image, where it's using the difference between those pixels for interference compensation.

  • @leecollins125
    @leecollins125 Рік тому +1

    Yet more quality content. Thank you, sir.

  • @jaimeguzman4655
    @jaimeguzman4655 Рік тому

    IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOUR VIDEO ON MOTION AMPLIFICATION FOR UNI
    I FORGOT I SAW IT IN YOUR CHANNEL AND NOT IN AN ARTICLE THANK YOUUUUUUU ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @WS12658
    @WS12658 Рік тому +3

    Hi @Steve Mould, please can you put warnings up before flashing lights (e.g. 5:35) in future? Thanks!

  • @Mike__B
    @Mike__B Рік тому +6

    I like how he went to infants in a hospital as a potential avenue for this kind of tech. I could also see this kind of tech (after some levels of advancement mind you) being used at security check points like airports/customs to see who's heart rate starts to get elevated as they get closer to the check point, or maybe just have random officers walking around to see someone who just got their luggage if their heart rate gets elevated although you have to be very careful about that.

    • @dylan-5287
      @dylan-5287 Рік тому +4

      The last thing we need is more security theater at airports.

    • @Mike__B
      @Mike__B Рік тому

      @@dylan-5287 Well what you want and what we get are bound to be two separate things. I don't want to take my shoes off at the security check-in either but thanks to some dude stuffing some explosives in his shoes now we all have to do that. Thank god he didn't try to stuff the explosives in his "prison wallet" I'd never fly again if they put us through that level of scrutiny.

  • @kevinc.3717
    @kevinc.3717 10 місяців тому

    That was truly fascinating! Thank you!! (I'm digging the camera gear also!)

  • @__...Michal...__
    @__...Michal...__ Рік тому

    One of the best episode with really interesting topic.

  • @microwave221
    @microwave221 Рік тому +3

    I'm not sure your heart has less room to beat when inhaling, since you're lungs only follow the pressure changes in your chest, not drive them. Also not a doctor, but I've been curious about this before and asked them, the answer is usually 'I unno'

  • @photelegy
    @photelegy Рік тому +3

    0:05
    How can I get this software to work. I tried it but only got errors and gave up.
    Is there a good tutorial somewhere?

  • @nurunde
    @nurunde Рік тому

    6:03 I always wondered if that was the explanation ; thanks for clarifying!

  • @frankharr9466
    @frankharr9466 Рік тому +1

    I had no idea. That is insanely clever.

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat Рік тому +6

    What people really wanted was a watch that could measure blood sugar. The GlucoWatch accomplished this by running a weak electric current through your skin, calibrating against a finger stick, and then using changes in the current to estimate changes to the glucose concentration of the interstitial fluid in real time (a proxy for blood glucose). Too bad it hurt and never really worked well.

    • @fortheloveofdavis9577
      @fortheloveofdavis9577 Рік тому

      That would've been amazing to have back when I was having to finger prick every 4 hours! I've felt low electric currents before, and while a bit uncomfortable, I think I'd rather have dealt with that than finger pricks. But that's just an assumption based off of my time doing finger pricks and never having tried the device mentioned. Cool in theory however!

  • @Morio666
    @Morio666 Рік тому +3

    Wouldn't the infrared go down when the red light goes up if they react oppositely to the amount of oxygen in blood (i.e. there would be an intrinsic "phase" difference in the curves at about 8:20)?

    • @acakeshapedlikeatrainonatable
      @acakeshapedlikeatrainonatable Рік тому +1

      I thought the infrared would be antiphase too

    • @Br3ttM
      @Br3ttM Рік тому

      I think it's the amount of blood in the vessels that causes that periodic change, and the change due to oxygen concentration is less obvious until you do the math to extract that data from the ratio.

  • @sneett7670
    @sneett7670 Рік тому +2

    11:47. This would be the happiest moment to a father that loves science and wants his kids to experience it's beauty. I want to feel this happy when I become a father.

  • @nonothebot
    @nonothebot Рік тому +1

    I've allways wondered how these devices work. Thank you.

  • @christians6974
    @christians6974 Рік тому +4

    I wonder if this works just as well with people that have darker skin. There is already a known issue with pulseoxes that are less accurate if you have darker skin.

    • @drasco61084
      @drasco61084 Рік тому +1

      Came here to say the same exact thing surprised hardly anyone else noticed no mention of that....

  • @shooawn
    @shooawn Рік тому +4

    Okey so this is actually kind of funny. I tend to have anxiety attacks from time to time and I’ve learn yo recognize them quite easily, to the point where I calm myself by just realize it’s a panic attack (and I’m not in any actual danger), except for yesterday where I had my biggest anxiety attack I’ve had in my life, where I even started to hyperventilate pretty badly. After a while I managed to calm down and breath semi normally again, and I started thinking that I should buy a pulse oximeter to be able to show my brain that it’s just a anxiety attack. The point is, I started to wonder how they worked and how they could measure the oxygen in the blood, and just as I was wondering that, scrolling though UA-cam (to distract myself), this video popped up. I didn’t watching then because I was scared to even think about breathing and oxygen and all of that, but yeah, what a coincidence 😂

  • @EthanShalev
    @EthanShalev Рік тому

    This video was very illuminating. Thank you!

  • @joshuamurray9403
    @joshuamurray9403 Рік тому +2

    That's crazy! Because I've seen that on people's faces before, but I didn't know what I was seeing!! This is so cool to know. I'm going to start paying more attention to this.

  • @zeristor
    @zeristor Рік тому +7

    Great video, although there has been a lot recently about this not working so reliably for people with darker skin. It would be interested to learn more about how it can be just as reliable in such cases.

  • @lyledal
    @lyledal Рік тому +4

    Shared the video with a friend (You're welcome! 😉). He had a good comment. If you folks can do this, then people doing surveillance can do it too. I'm picturing camera's all over an airport just looking for people who's pulse rates seem a bit too high... Or any port of entry, while the Border Agent is asking "Purpose of your visit?" and the AI is staring at your face to see if you get especially nervous.

  • @aajjeee
    @aajjeee Рік тому

    Thank you for the units on the graph

  • @nootypenguino
    @nootypenguino Рік тому

    This is so interesting. Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing all this! 👍

  • @away69
    @away69 Рік тому +3

    The main reason why the green LED flashes is to save battery, that significantly increases battery life of the smartwatch. That's also the reason why these LEDs will only flash when the smartwatch senses movement, otherwise it just assumes it's not being used and enters battery saving mode. They can get away with the flashing because our heart rate is super slow when compared to the speeds at which the embedded electronics are capable of running at, so they can sample a few times a second as opposed to constantly reading the heart rate sensor input.

  • @rithvikb7980
    @rithvikb7980 Рік тому +3

    film everyone and findout who are aliens

  • @chrisannesi
    @chrisannesi Рік тому

    This is so fascinating. Such a good video!

  • @KindredBrujah
    @KindredBrujah 8 днів тому

    Lol! I appreciate the dedication to science in labelling your axes at 7:05! X'D

  • @Netbug
    @Netbug Рік тому +3

    Bio status: mined

  • @HelloKittyFanMan.
    @HelloKittyFanMan. Рік тому +3

    "Reflected back"? Why not just "reflected"? Doesn't that already imply a "back"?

    • @HelloKittyFanMan.
      @HelloKittyFanMan. 4 дні тому

      @@coinonaribbon: No, because "reflected" already _means_ "...back." Even if the angle doesn't bring the signal right back to the source.

  • @MattGrayYES
    @MattGrayYES Рік тому

    Wow that IR camera + torch view is coool!

  • @TheWillemDeBur
    @TheWillemDeBur Рік тому

    Your Videos are so Entertaining!! Im laughing so hard several times in every one of them but at the same time some interesting phenomenon is explained and I learn something. Glad I found this channel 🙏🏼😄