Where does @Ireland say only Apple is working on it? He made a very nice post where he talked about what he felt could be the Apple Watch's legacy. He never said anything about no one else doing it.
You're Apple/ Apple fans hatred just makes you look for things that aren't there.
Spot on. It's such an obvious use-case there's likely hundreds of companies from big techs to start-ups working on it. http://infravitals.com/
Fed approval will be the biggest holdup, not the technology that makes it possible.
That you. Not sure where else I can go to get better links to so called Apple competitors than your posts. Keep up the effort, it's like finding the plastic soldier in the cereal box as a kid , reading your posts.
Well it's not hard to imagine that to you EVERYONE else is an Apple competitor no matter the product. Hey at least it wasn't a Google link.
One of the important inventions of my lifetime will be a reliable and accurate non-invasive blood sugar monitor in a consumer product like Apple Watch.
Probably not impossible, but the only 100% accurate way to measure glucose is with chemistry. Some people have dogs that can smell when the glucose is out of range, but that is still chemistry.
Heart rate is a lot easier to do on a watch because there is a visual element involved which is how Apple determines it, but even so, the heart rate monitor on the Apple Watch is not very accurate. I recently went in for a cardiac stress test using a GE treadmill with and EKG attached that is picking up the electronic signals to the heart which is extremely accurate. My heart rate from the EKG was easy to see on the monitor. I tested it against the Apple Watch and sadly the watch was pretty far off much of the time.
Fed approval will be the biggest holdup, not the technology that makes it possible.
If it isn't insanely accurate it could basically kill someone. Approval for this device should be above rigorous. Approval is not the issue though. Making it basically 100% accurate is the real issue. Probably a 5-12 year full-time investment from a dedicated team of talented specialists. Years of work in this light refraction/blood sensor business. The guys they hired from that company working on this very thing couldn't make it accurate despite claims to the contrary.
LOL! When the first paragraph starts off with accusations of embezzlement it doesn't instill faith in the rest of the writer's opinion. Sounds like there's an ax grinding in the workshop.
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Heart rate is a lot easier to do on a watch because there is a visual element involved which is how Apple determines it, but even so, the heart rate monitor on the Apple Watch is not very accurate. I recently went in for a cardiac stress test using a GE treadmill with and EKG attached that is picking up the electronic signals to the heart which is extremely accurate. My heart rate from the EKG was easy to see on the monitor. I tested it against the Apple Watch and sadly the watch was pretty far off much of the time.