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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

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A 2017 study looked at seven such typical devices, and found their counts were off between 27 and 93 percent , depending on the device. The road to the calorie counter began in our lab (the Human Performance Laboratory in the Stanford University School of Engineering ), where we study things like the metabolic cost of walking.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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Peter Kovatchev was a naval engineer who raised his son, Boris, as a problem solver, and who built model ships with his granddaughter, Anna. William Clarke/University of Virginia. To design a controller, you must have a way of testing it, for which biomedical engineering has typically relied on animal trials.

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