4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2013
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Podcast sidekick, Brock Skywalker Armstrong, reviews Tinké - the revolutionary way to check your fitness and wellness "at your fingertip".
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Brock here, and today I'm going to tell you about this little guy. |
0:11.7 | It's called Tink by Zenzorium. |
0:13.8 | It's a little tiny, let me take it out of the fancy little box here, it's a little tiny |
0:19.6 | rectangle that you attach to your iPhone and he uses these two little sensors to pick |
0:24.6 | up a bunch of biofeedback from your body. |
0:29.0 | Now the four things that this little guy does is it picks up when you put your phone |
0:34.6 | over top of it, it picks up your heart rate, your oxygen level, your respiratory rate, |
0:41.4 | and your heart rate variability. |
0:44.0 | Now it's pretty easy to tell how it does your heart rate. |
0:46.7 | There are a lot of apps out there that just use the back of your phone and you put your |
0:51.7 | finger over top of it, it shines light through your finger and it can detect the beats |
0:57.6 | of your heart and the movement of your blood by the density that's color changes beneath |
1:01.8 | your skin. |
1:04.2 | Oxygen level very similar, it's just like those little clips that they put on the end |
1:07.8 | of your finger when you're in the emergency room and they want to make sure that you're |
1:12.6 | breathing correctly. |
1:14.5 | Same thing shines a light in it, can pick up the red blood cells which show a percentage |
1:18.6 | of oxygen versus the non-oxygenated blood gives you a nice percentage. |
1:23.8 | Now the other thing that this little guy says it picks up is respiratory rate. |
1:29.4 | I have no idea how it's doing that. |
1:32.3 | In fact, one time, twice now, actually I've put my thumb on it and I've gone for the |
1:40.3 | entire time it was taking the measurement which actually was quite difficult and I almost |
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