Comments on: Heart Monitor Keeps Track of Your Beats

By: Harry Margolis

Harry Margolis — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:36:45 +0000

They have a way to get your Polar Heart Rate on your iphone. It is continuous heart rate for your entire workout. I’ve got one, it works great.

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Harry

By: Lois

Lois — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:21:16 +0000

Yes it is, A poloar transmitter will measure the actual electrical activity of your heart in moment to moment (or beat to beat) variation. Anything that reads off your wrist is not measuring this activity—it is measuring the opening and closing of an artery at a specific point. In the case of your wrist, that artery is the radial artery. On your neck, it is the carotid artery. Either way is going to be less accurate than actual heart rate. Iwould love to see the I-touch or I-phone be able to read right from the tranmitter being worn.

Happy Holidays!

By: John Ballinger

John Ballinger — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:19:56 +0000

Since when is your pulse NOT your heart rate? Is it something else?
EKG measures electrical signals emitted from the heart and can pick up abnormalities in HOW you heart is beating.

Heart Monitor can only really tell you your pulse which IS how fast your heart is beating. It is possible it could pick up other things like arrhythmia.

Cheers John.

By: Lois

Lois — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:36:30 +0000

This does not use an EKG to record Heart Rate, your pulse is not your heart rate.
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By: John Ballinger

John Ballinger — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:28:46 +0000

@TheRealGomez

Its very accurate since you are wondering, you will see many comments in the iTunes app store about how it was exactly the same as Polar Heart Rate Monitor.

The iPhone amazingly enough does not really have a hard time at all, if you place it correctly on the neck or chest the heart beats actually max the micrphone out.
I absolutely concede that if you are in a very noisy environment and you have a weak pulse it could have troubles.
But it does a lot of very smart things to filter out noise, erratic beats or missed beats and doesnt provide a result until it is statistically confident that the samples has got are consistent (eg Standard Deviation falls is very small between each sample).

I do invite you to try it, this app was 5 in Italy for a long time and has been in the top 100 in the USA so a lot of other people have found it really good.

Cheers, John.

By: Tyler Durden

Tyler Durden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:56:12 +0000

It is a lot cheaper than other heart rate monitors, I’ll give it that.

By: TheRealGomez

TheRealGomez — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:42:13 +0000

I don’t know how accurate this heart rate monitor would be because I get the impression that it would have a hard time recording the sound.

By: I Heart Apps

I Heart Apps — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:19:55 +0000

hmmmm……