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Apple patent points out potential to turn Apple Watch into urgent care device

This is definitely nifty. A recently published patent application suggests that Apple is working to turn Apple Watch into a full-fledged medical device, one that can monitor a user’s vital signs and automatically send out an alert should they need urgent care. The application, entitled “Care event detection and alerts” provides for a hardware system […]

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Rumor: Apple hiring personnel from health sensor field to help with iWatch project, product group structure revealed

The new hires are coming to help work on the iWatch. And some of them have medical sensor backgrounds. Per MacRumors, Apple is apparently hiring from the health sensor field. Based on new hires, it seems that Appleā€™s interest in sensors focuses on the ability to measure glucose and other body level information. With this […]