Direct to Consumer BioSensors – Are We Ready?

Let the games begin! Self described as “bio-boundary pushers,” NeuroSky, and other biosensor manufacturers are at the beginning of what promises to be a health and wellness revolution as consumers across the globe latch onto self-monitoring biosensors that collect and empower consumers with health data. From sensors that plug into Google Glass to wireless devices that connect via Bluetooth, direct to consumer biosensors and wearable technology for self-monitoring health data as part of a health and wellness program has only just begun. But are we ready?

According to NeuroSky,  a global provider of consumer biosensor products,

“By 2017, 64 million wearable technology devices, with a focus on health and wellness, will be shipped globally. From wearable fitness trackers, relaxation and meditation enablers, sleep monitors, heart performance monitors and even smart watches and glasses, wearable consumer technology products represent a large and growing opportunity.”

 NeuroSky is ready for the direct to consumer market and OEM’s alike by providing what may be one of the first shopping cart services enabling consumers to conveniently acquire biosensors the company promises will help improve health and wellness performance, improve focus and learning, and monitor heart health insights with electrocardiogram (ECG) biosensors. The company’s innovative ECG enabled headgear, MindWave and MindWave Mobile, enables users to monitor brainwaves to improve meditation. To learn more, visit NeuroSky.com or click on the below image to tour the convenient biosensor shopping cart service.

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