Reply to post: Re: Doing heart rate on an instrument like that...

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Seajay#

Re: Doing heart rate on an instrument like that...

They aren't detecting EKG pulses at all, there are no contacts. It's an optical sensor which works by noticing the tiny difference in the redness of your skin as you blood pressure changes within a hearbeat.

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