Bitalino - Diy body signals! @ ei tv nº 316

Technology made in Portugal is changing agriculture and apiculture. Even our body can remotely control a door. Welcome to another Exame Informática. Today's show starts with a visit to Técnico Lisboa. We'll be at Instituto de Telecomunicações in Lisboa to meet BITalino, a system that reads your body signals. It may not seem so but the flower that sends tweets to internet and the door that opens in response to a body muscle have something in common: both are using a Do-it-Yourself kit developed by Researchers from the Instituto de Telecomunicações in Lisbon, which is able to capture movements, environmental parameters or physiological signals produced by the human body, animals and even from vegetables. BITalino is slightly bigger than a credit card and can be used in several configurations to meet the needs of inspired minds everywhere. BITalino can be used to create very integrated systems, like this one I have here. This is a simple example that blinks to my heartbeat, but we also have demonstrators like a game console with an integrated sensor, a steering wheel of a car that can be used to measure several signals, and it can also be used for other things such as a keyboard. Several objects in people’s lives can have these sensors incorporated to measure different signals, and we already have a large number of examples. BITalino is fitted with an accelerometer and sensors for electrocardiography, muscular activity and the galvanic skin response; it also has an LED and an ambient light sensor. If this technological arsenal is not enough, you can also connect the board to other devices such as mobile phones, computers, tablets, Raspberry Pi boards, and many others. BITalino will be commercially available in 2014 and results from a partnership with the company PLUX – Wireless Biosignals, S.A. A retail price around 150 euros is expected for this rapid prototyping board which intends to jumpstart the imagination of makers and scientists all around the world.