[gui-talk] Talking pulse rate monitor?

[albert griffith]

A number of people from other lists have told me they're happy with a blood
pressure monitor from Oregon Scientific for $50.  People also recommended
Speak To Me catalog.

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From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:13 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Talking pulse rate monitor?

thanks for the comments, Andy, and let's see if anyone else chimes in. That 
thing sounds like quite an elaborate contraption, and even if it worked 
great and was durable, I would not be happy to have my one functioning ear 
blocked by the ear bud. I rip some workout music to .mp3 files in mono in 
order to have music to keep me riding the stationary bike, which is hard 
because of constant vertigo from another problem, a tumor having destroyed 
part of my balance system. But I need the music, not periods of silence 
between readouts what mny pulse rate is. heart rate. Whatever is more proper

to say.an't ybwtween

So let's see if anyone mentions something else now.
my contratpion.elabortaate qawfully
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Talking pulse rate monitor?


I used to have a device called the Heartalker.  It consisted of an
elastic band that wraps around your midsection, with sensors that sit
over your chest.  It has a headphone jack, and I believe that they
provide some bud headphones.  It has an on-off switch, and when turned
on, will give you a reading of heart rate, I believe, every minute.  I
do not remember a way to get a reading on demand.  I believe that it
cost about $50, and I got it from Speak To Me.  I didn't find it to be
very rugged at all, and the speech would stop.  i believe it probably
was because of perspiration shorting out the sensors.  I would also be
interested in such a device, so I would appreciate that findings be
posted to the list.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:29 PM
To: GUI-Talk
Subject: [gui-talk] Talking pulse rate monitor?

I've found a blood pressure unit I'm interested in, thanks to help I
received here. Now I'd like to find just a pulse rate monitor that
talks.
The kind I could use while I'm working out in order to check my pulse
rate whenever I wish. I know this function is included with the speaking
reading you get from that talking blood pressure unit, but that isn't
what I'm concerned with. You can't use a stationary bike or treadmill
and keep activating a blood pressure device on your upper arm every few
seconds just to hear your pulse rate announced after it runs its test. I
want an instant reading, on demand. I'm imagining something like my
talking wrist watch except you push the button then you wait a few
seconds and then the thing says your pulse rate loud and clear.

I know someone in the UK posted about something like this, but I need to
find a U.S. source, or sources, for a device like this. I figure that
maybe the large catalogue houses like Maxi Aids and LS&S, and maybe
others I can't think of, may carry such a thing. But I don't have their
URLs. Can anyone give me those We b addresses plus suggest other
possible sources? A search on Amazon turns up nothing, and a Google
search turns up a bunch of confusing hits.

Help, please?



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