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A Black Box for People
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“When planes have a problem, analysts can usually figure out what went wrong. They simply check the plane’s “black box,” which records exactly what was happening to the plane at the time. Now, there’s something similar for people. Under the leadership of Stanford University professor Greg Kovacs and engineers Carsten Mundt (NASA/Ames) and Kevin Montgomery (Stanford), researchers have developed a device that is like a black box or flight recorder for human beings. Just as a plane’s black box records crucial mechanical data, NASA’s device, the CPOD (pronounced “see-pod”), keeps track of biological data, like changes in heart rate, the amount of oxygen in the blood stream, how the wearer is moving … and much more.”