Smartphone comes to help healthcare again !

Purdue technology could reduce falls

http://www.jconline.com/story/news/college/2014/06/22/purdue-technology-reduce-falls/11244833/

From the article:

To help with this, researchers adapted a conventional smartphone with a downward-looking wide-angle lens and a special app that allows the phone to record and calculate gait measurements. The system captures gait length — the distance from the tip of the front foot to the tip of the back foot — and the gait width, the distance between each foot, and walking speed.

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