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WiFi signals can measure heart rate

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463 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 04 Sep 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jcmontx ◴[04 Sep 25 17:15 UTC] No.45129647[source]▶
Bros at UCSC must be getting some good grants from the US military. I can already imagine the next gen of public-wifi driven drone strikes
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transpute ◴[04 Sep 25 17:39 UTC] No.45129957[source]▶
WiFi Sensing shipped in Comcast routers, Intel laptops and Qualcomm phones, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426726#44427986
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munk-a ◴[04 Sep 25 18:11 UTC] No.45130343[source]▶
It's an excellent time to buy your own device for wifi broadcasting and disable any ISP provided broadcasting (or maybe put it in a faraday cage?) - it's relatively simple to set up with off the shelf components though less technically minded people may struggle with it. There's still a pretty robust market of options and the devices have gotten pretty feature rich with things like mesh networking support being pretty standard.
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bookofjoe ◴[04 Sep 25 18:15 UTC] No.45130384{3}[source]▶
>though less technically minded people may struggle with it

This is the funniest thing I've read so far today. BOTN

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1. munk-a ◴[04 Sep 25 18:29 UTC] No.45130574{4}[source]▶
I more meant - you might need to help elderly relatively set it up. There are plenty of wifi routers you can order that basically just plug in out of the box - the bigger issue is educating people that they need the tech and then making sure they can handle the cable connections. I tend to work with some very non-technically minded people so my bar is so so low.
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2. bookofjoe ◴[04 Sep 25 19:15 UTC] No.45131119[source]▶
Oh! I wish you lived near Charlottesville, Virginia, where I live. I am a 77-year-old retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist. My technical aptitude is SO low that I dare not exchange my obsolete 10-year-old Comcast WiFi router for the current model that I can "basically just plug in out of the box," even though it's billed as being at least 5x faster than mine, because I don't believe their constant emails that the new one they'll send me is simple to set up. Far more likely than not I'll end up with NO WiFi and have to pay for a technician to come and do it.