Health Care For all of you hypochondriacs and good patients with iPhones, the French company Withings revealed last week that its Blood Pressure Monitor is now available in the United States. Withings, best known for its Internet-connected Wi-Fi Scale, says its Blood Pressure Monitor, also called BPM, will also work with the iPad and late model iPods.
To operate the BPM, just wrap its sleeve around your arm, plug its attached cable into your Apple gadget, and the BPM automatically launches a free app to record your blood pressure and heart rate.
The sleeve automatically inflates and releases pressure on your arm while taking readings. There is no ball to squeeze, and the kit rolls up neatly for storage or transporting.
The Withings app saves your readings to your iOS device, along with the times and dates they were taken. That kind of data, which the app displays in simple graphs, can help you detect patterns and chart your progress if you’re engaged in health-enhancing exercise or other activities.
The Withings BPM, which has FDA clearance, is available for $129.
Wireless keyboards Pay another $100, ease tablet typing Electronics stores might sell more iPads and Android tablets if they displayed them paired with wireless keyboards. Poking around Facebook and typing e-mail messages on the screen of the almost-too-slick Apple tablet, for example, is a chore.
The Verbatim keyboard is more than 12 inches long when unfolded (plenty of room for typing), and is half that length when folded and stored in its carrying case. It has dedicated media buttons for playing, pausing, and managing iTunes tracks on your iOS device. And the keyboard comes with a stand for the iPhone.
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