Musings from Philippe

Medical-class iPhone application first to offer sleep monitoring, resting heart rate, and activity monitoring to help improve Sleep

SANTA CRUZ, CA – (Marketwire – November 29, 2012) – Fullpower®-MotionX® today announced Sleep by MotionX version 4.0, the first app for the iPhone that measures resting heart rate and correlates resting heart rate with sleep quality.

Sleep by MotionX encapsulates seven years of research and development in the biomechanics of natural human motion and sleep optimization to bring the best professional medical-class tool to the iPhone. Sleep by MotionX provides the tools to help improve your sleep in a natural and non-invasive manner.

It is the first solution for iPhone that:

• Helps measure and correlate resting heart rate with sleep quality
• Provides the most advanced and accurate sleep-cycle alarm solution
• Implements smart alarms for optimal length power-naps for the first time on any device
• Delivers advanced automatic “Get Active” alerts

“We carefully analyzed the feedback of tens of thousands of active MotionX users to take sleep monitoring and optimization to the next level,” said Philippe Kahn founder and CEO of Fullpower-MotionX. “We integrated a very accurate heart rate monitor with our sleep monitor to track resting heart rate which research shows can be an indicator of overall health.”

Sleep by MotionX is available at $9.99 from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/motionx-sleep/id505074676?mt=8. The upgrade to version 4.0 is free for the tens of thousands of current Sleep by MotionX users.

Read more at Fullpower.com

Total Car Score

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Total Car Score (www.totalcarscore.com), the most comprehensive automotive ranking and comparison website, today released its list of the Top 5 iPhone Driving Apps in anticipation of the release of the new iPhone 5.

“With the release of the iPhone 5, drivers will have an excellent selection of useful and fun driving aids,” said Karl Brauer, Editor in Chief of Total Car Score. “Beyond the new iPhone 5’s larger display screen and excellent native apps, these are our favorite driving-related apps. All of the apps in the list, with the exception of MotionX® GPS, are free in the App Store.”

Read the entire press release at Fullpower.com

The Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) Search & Rescue division has been using MotionX-GPS on the iPhone as a critical time-saving navigation tool during search and rescue alarms. Due to the often treacherous Honolulu terrain, distress calls from hikers and tourists in trouble is a daily occurrence.

When hikers or tourists call 9-1-1 from their mobile phone, their location coordinates are automatically transmitted to the emergency response team. HFD Search & Rescue inputs the lat/lon coordinates into MotionX-GPS and navigates to the waypoint using a combination of team members on foot crossing the rugged terrain, and by air in mountain rescue helicopters.

Read the full article at Fullpower.com

Creator of the Camera Phone discusses his latest venture, Fullpower-MotionX

All Things D – Feb 6, 2012 – by Ina Fried.

If you want to learn more about the first camera phone, the Super Bowl could be your chance.

Inventor Philippe Kahn talks about it in a Best Buy ad running in the first quarter. In a promotional video that ties in to the ad, Kahn shows his first photo, of his newborn daughter, and talks about how the technology came to be.

While not the first time a camera had been attached to a phone, Kahn notes his camera phone allowed the modern notion of instant sharing.

These days Kahn is running Fullpower Technologies, which does some motion control stuff demoed back at our D7 conference. Their MotionX software is a popular iPhone navigation app and their technology is also used in devices like Jawbone’s UP and Nike+ GPS.