It's fascinating how many things seem to move in cycles. I started my career in the 1980’s focusing on medical devices and then switched in the late 1990’s to Internet technologies in part because of frustration with the extended FDA process needed to commercialize medical devices. I much prefer the freedom that Internet businesses offer. For the first time in many years, I recently started looping back towards medical devices. My main expertise focuses on medical device transducers that convert biomedical signals to something that can be processed by electronic instruments. The smart phones/devices that nearly everyone is carrying around these days are like supercomputers compared to many of the specialized microcontrollers/microcomputers that I previously developed for processing biomedical signals. Given the broad popularity of rich apps on smart devices together with the processing power the devices offer, it could be an ideal time to build biomedical transducers and apps for use with smart phones/devices. In addition to the local processing power offered by smart apps/devices, access to cloud services creates opportunities for extending apps in very interesting and useful ways. I recently started working with iPhone/iPod/iPad apps to determine if the platform can actually be used for creating medical devices. I’ll be describing my experiences in this blog.