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Tech Life

What's new in health tech?

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.3227 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We all want to stay fit and healthy. But how can technology help ? Shiona McCallum discusses new health tech on display at the world's biggest consumer electronics trade show. And if you own cryptocurrency - beware. Thieves could be targeting you. The BBC's Cyber Correspondent, Joe Tidy, joins us to explain more.

Presenter: Shiona McCallum Producer: Tom Quinn

(Image: A photo of Shiona McCallum wearing an LED face mask. The room is dark and the transparent face mask covers Shiona's face. The light emitting from the mask gives Shiona's face a red glow. Credit: BBC.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:33.0

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0:39.2

Hello and welcome to Tech Life, the program about technology and how it affects all of us wherever we live in the world.

0:47.4

I'm Shona McCallum and this week I'm looking at arguably one of the most fascinating areas on this beat, health tech. We all want to stay fit

0:56.2

and healthy, but how can technology help? Well, I'm just about recovered from the jet lag after

1:01.1

being in Las Vegas for CES, the biggest tech show in the world, where I saw a vast amount of

1:06.8

digital health solutions on display. There were so many devices and gizmos designed to help us

1:12.8

live longer or even better make us feel a bit more attractive. I'll be bringing you a

1:18.3

flavour of what I found and I'll be chatting about it with an author that you might be familiar

1:22.8

with who's written about how tech can help save your health and your life. It felt for me this year less about new hardware

1:30.3

and more about what we're doing with the data.

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