We are fast approaching a future where your bathroom mirror and your toothbrush will give you a full health check first thing in the morning, says Michael Gillam, a Silicon Valley based health IT strategist who was in New Zealand last week for the SingularityU Summit.
There were a number of amazing advances made possible by Moore's law - the principal that computing power double every two years - that were making it possible to put sophisticated sensors into everyday products, he said.
"So for example every time your heart beats, your skin turns red. Our eyes can't see it but a computer can," Gillam said. "So we now have sensors in bathroom mirrors that can take our pulse and measure people for arrhythmia [abnormal heart beat]."
Other companies had created cameras that could read people's emotions.
"What it suggests is that as the these sensors get smaller and smaller we're getting closer to a world of smart mirrors where just standing in the bathroom in the morning will enable us to be diagnosed with all sorts of things."