Imagine this... a sensor built into your cellphone which
detects/measures electrical resistance in your skin, then based on
whether you’re agitated or calm, sends data OTA, to the handset of the
person you’re speaking with.

This OTA transmission causes the handset at the other end to heat up
(by 9C), or cool down (by 3.6) thanks to a peltier device attached on the back.  And this
nearly happens nearly in realtime. Btw, this has been developed and
tested by researchers from the University
of Tokyo. (Read the original post on Crunch Gear)

A quick jump to another article I read in Pink
Tentacle about a finger vein authentication system developed by Hitachi (as opposed to voice/iris or fingerprint
scan, finger vein sensors are more reliable and secure).

Now lets push this imagination thingi a little more!

Think of an advanced hybrid combo, that scans an individuals
biometrics, and sends the information in realtime, OTA, to the another
person.  Data like pulse, blood pressure, temperature...WOW, if this
were reliable it would radically change health care across the world,
more so in developing countries.

My doctors are quite ‘with-it’ when it comes to technology, I’ve been
messaging symptoms and getting ‘prescriptions’ for over two years now,
using BBM.

But a biometric scanner would make these interactions much more
reliable and the diagnostics and remedy far more effective.

What if this could go mass? Let’s take India for example, where the
mobile penetration has sky-rocketed.

Sarah Lacy states in her TechCrunch post of 13 March 2010  ‘550 million
people in India have phones... just last month, nearly 20 million new
mobile accounts were opened. That’s more than double the people than
have high speed Internet in the entire country...’ That’s huge. By
any standards.

In fact, sheer volume might keep the costs for this tech affordable.
Either ways, the possibilities are endless.

Maybe the biometirc kit is sold after market like an accessory? As
one would buy a bluetooth or a memory card, you could buy the OTA health
pack? People living in far out areas would overnight get access to the
best medical advise.

Each individuals cell number becomes a kind of a PIN. This PIN allows
access to the health records; dynamic data residing on a cloud. With
basic back-end logic in place, the data could even work towards
prevention, flagging or warning patients by SMS.

OTA? YES. Over The Top? MAYBE.

But I’ll bet more than a few beers on it