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Secrets of your sweat, the mysteries of your muscles and blood bear on your future health, all unlocked by the steady hand of technology. That’s the lofty goal of the men and women working out in this lab.

“It’s very exciting time for us and we are bracing ourselves to see how it will be. It’ll be adopted.”

This is it, the life Q device. By touching a person’s skin, developers set users optical sensors to collect the person’s real time physical data like heart beat and oxygen levels, then goes a step further, based on mathematical models created in this room. It creates a digital simulation of what’s happening in your body -- a virtual recreation that can then be sent to your phone or computer.

“What this technology opens up is the ability to infer values for your physiology that you cannot measure directly. So things like for example whether your calorie consumption is right cannot be measured directly, but by following your vital signs and using models, one can actually calculate these even values.”

The minds that Health Q Technologies call it Bio-Mathematics developed in a setting so casual. The dogs play at the front desk. It has the look of a silicon vally starter, but this lab and most of the people working in it are in Stellenbosch, outside of Cape Town South Africa.

“I think what they are doing competes globally with any other innovator tech start-ups. I think it could be quite a major global player in the latest science-tech realm. And who knows, it could be IPO before we know.”

Well, they know independent studies to back up their findings. Health Q Technologies has featured this Tomtom GPS fitness watch. The company says there is a good chance that it’ll be another wearable technology. But Doctor Riaan Conradie sees many more applications long term. He believes the technology and its 24/7 health monitoring would help more than just those who want to track their fitness.

“If you think about this, you can get instead of a pseudo view of a user way once a year, for instance you go to your physician. You cannot get a continuous stream of relevant information.”

That can help doctors notice trends or other health concerns much more quickly. And possibly one day the technology created here can help save lives.

Robyn Kernow, CNN.

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Secrets of your sweat, the mysteries of your muscles and blood bear on your future health, all unlocked by the steady hand of technology. That’s the lofty goal of the men and women working out in this lab.

“It’s very exciting time for us and we are bracing ourselves to see how it will be. It’ll be adopted.”

This is it, the life Q device. By touching a person’s skin, developers set users optical sensors to collect the person’s real time physical data like heart beat and oxygen levels, then goes a step further, based on mathematical models created in this room. It creates a digital simulation of what’s happening in your body -- a virtual recreation that can then be sent to your phone or computer.

“What this technology opens up is the ability to infer values for your physiology that you cannot measure directly. So things like for example whether your calorie consumption is right cannot be measured directly, but by following your vital signs and using models, one can actually calculate these even values.”

The minds that Health Q Technologies call it Bio-Mathematics developed in a setting so casual. The dogs play at the front desk. It has the look of a silicon vally starter, but this lab and most of the people working in it are in Stellenbosch, outside of Cape Town South Africa.

“I think what they are doing competes globally with any other innovator tech start-ups. I think it could be quite a major global player in the latest science-tech realm. And who knows, it could be IPO before we know.”

Well, they know independent studies to back up their findings. Health Q Technologies has featured this Tomtom GPS fitness watch. The company says there is a good chance that it’ll be another wearable technology. But Doctor Riaan Conradie sees many more applications long term. He believes the technology and its 24/7 health monitoring would help more than just those who want to track their fitness.

“If you think about this, you can get instead of a pseudo view of a user way once a year, for instance you go to your physician. You cannot get a continuous stream of relevant information.”

That can help doctors notice trends or other health concerns much more quickly. And possibly one day the technology created here can help save lives.

Robyn Kernow, CNN.