Samsung wants your body – or at least help you monitor it.
Yesterday, Samsung’s Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC) unveiled its Digital Health Initiative, a three-pronged approach to promote health-related applications.
Samsung Simband
A number of companies manufacture wristbands that monitor biometric data. Samsung is taking a different approach. With open source hardware, software and mechanical schematics, Samsung designed the Simband to be changed.
The Simband is essentially a prototype of a biometric wristband – but instead of Samsung building upon its functionality, the tech giant is encouraging others to use it as a jumping off point for greater [...]
