One Human Heartbeat

Until I read the project description, I wondered if somehow that radial representation included a whole range of contributed heartbeats. And that the word "one" was a comment on it being something that unites all living people.

I wonder if a huge range of people around the world did it, if there might be some interesting data to mine regarding differences from one region to another, or by occupation, age and so on.

robbles• 12 years ago

I wondered that too. When I was learning about timing and synchronization in distributed systems, I thought about building an app with a fake "heartbeat" that attempts to sync between everyone viewing the page.

Had a brief moment when seeing this (before I read the description) of "Cool! someone finally made it!"

patatino2• 12 years ago

A daily schedule would be nice, of course not exactly for every day. right now it's 85bpm at 7.45am.

I'm at work at this time and my heart rate is usually between 55 and 60 while working.

kayoone• 12 years ago

Looks beautiful, the description says its not live data but from the day before because she has to use USB to get the data from the device twice a day. Its also just based on a normalized per minute heartrate. So i guess there are no practical consumer devices that transmit the heartbeat in realtime...that could be really interesting :)

hpaavola• 12 years ago

There are Bluetooth HR belts available so doing one should not be too hard.

brenschluss• 12 years ago

s/he/she

mikestew• 12 years ago

So i guess there are no practical consumer devices that transmit the heartbeat in realtime

A $50 BLE Polar HR strap and an iPhone app that one could whip up in a weekend. Using Apple's BLE sample app as a start, probably wouldn't even take an afternoon for an MVP.

squiggy22• 12 years ago

Old news, but somehow this art reminded me of this Apple patent:

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6658577

lenochka• 12 years ago

I wonder how did he calculate the days he still has to live.

wingerlang• 12 years ago

It said statistics on the blogpost linked above.

acomjean• 12 years ago

I think she is just using average life span.

There was an old apple app (I think called death clock), that when you opened it you entered your birthday and it would tell you how long you have to live. Every time you opened it would just recalc. Always counting even when not running. It was a little freaky.

"Your older than you've ever been, and NOW your even older, and NOW your even older still..." _TMBG

negamax• 12 years ago

This is beautiful. Totally love it.

tfinniga• 12 years ago

Neat. I remember it used to be cool when someone hooked up a fridge or fish tank up to the internet.

chippy• 12 years ago

Ahh the exciting days of mouldy cheese and the coffee machine.

bgdnpn2• 12 years ago

Is it just me or is this totally useless and uninteresting? Are people so bored nowadays that they end up doing this kind of stuff?

yati2• 12 years ago

Probably the difference is that when you are bored, you read HN but when this guy was bored, he created a piece of art.

0800899g• 12 years ago

well said

ChrisArchitect• 12 years ago

She, hehe

bgdnpn2• 12 years ago

yes, maybe

cliveowen• 12 years ago

75bpm, I'm not sure that's a healthy heart rate. I've always thought 60 was the norm.

ragesh• 12 years ago

Actually, 60 is the edge of bradycardia, unless you're really, really fit. Anywhere from 60 to 100 is considered normal in adults.

pointernil• 12 years ago

I like how in this presentation of time progress the (angular) speed will increase with progression of time ...

One Human Heartbeat

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