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Apple Watch Saves (Yet) Another Life

Posted on May 3, 2018 by admin Posted in Hardware, Medical Leave a comment

What it is: The Apple Watch saved a man who suffered a ruptured ulcer.

When Apple first released the Apple Watch, many people didn’t know why they would need one. Many people still don’t know why they might need one, just as many people still don’t see a need for a computer, a smartphone, a car, or electricity. The main key behind the Apple Watch is its real-time health monitoring abilities, which is something you can never get from a desktop/laptop computer or even a smartphone. Only a wearable computer like the Apple Watch can passively monitor your health at all times.

If you don’t value your health, then a wearable computer isn’t for you. For everyone else who does value their health and their lives, a wearable computer is fast becoming a necessity, especially for older people.

32-year old William Monzidelis was at work in April when he started feeling dizzy and headed to the bathroom. Shortly after, he started bleeding and got an alert from his Apple Watch warning him that his heart rate was at an alarming level. The device recommended Monzidelis seek medical attention. His mother, Nancy, rushed him to the hospital and that helped save his life by getting immediately medical attention.

Without the Apple Watch, Monzidelis might have just ignored the dizziness and bleeding, assuming it would simply pass, and then he would likely have died. By getting early warnings of potentially fatal health problems, he got to the hospital in time for doctors to save his life.

Stories about the Apple Watch saving people’s lives are becoming routine. If you’re interested in living a healthy life, then you have a need for the Apple Watch. The Apple Watch may not be useful for web browsing or taking notes, but for what it can do, it does well that no other type of device can do. Wearable computers are no longer a luxury but a necessity. Provided, of course, that you actually want to live.

Apple Watch Saves Another Life

Posted on May 1, 2018 by admin Posted in Hardware, Medical Leave a comment

What it is: An Apple Watch alerted an 18-year old girl to an undiagnosed kidney problem.

For anyone who still doesn’t know what good an Apple Watch or similar wearable computer might do for them, ask them if they want to stay alive. If they do, then they’ll find a use for a wearable computer like the Apple Watch.

In florida, an 18-year old girl wearing an Apple Watch noticed her heart rate drastically changed, alerting her to seek medical attention. The girl’s mother took her to a clinic and later to an emergency room where doctors discovered the girl had an undiagnosed kidney disease. Without this notification, this kidney disease would not have been detected until much later, if at all.

The mother wrote to Apple, thanking them for the Apple Watch that potentially saved the girl’s life. If an Apple Watch can help save lives through real-time health monitoring, why wouldn’t everyone want one to monitor their own health and warn them of possible problems ahead of time?

The Apple Watch’s real-time health monitoring is the key feature that makes wearable computers so useful. The ability to make phone calls through an Apple Watch is simply a nice bonus but not necessary. If you value your health, you should get a wearable computer like the Apple Watch. If you don’t care whether you live or die, feel free to ignore technology that could save your life one day.

Apple Watch Helps Verizon Growth

Posted on April 24, 2018 by admin Posted in Hardware, User Interface Leave a comment

What it is: Verizon reported that the wireless Apple Watch helped boost subscriber revenue.

When Apple first introduced the iPad, it lacked a camera. Now every iPad comes with a camera and people would likely not buy an iPad model if it lacked a camera. That shows how a feature once considered a luxury has now become a necessity.

With the Apple Watch, you needed an iPhone to make and receive calls. However the latest Apple Watch can be completely wireless, which means you can make and receive calls without needing an iPhone nearby at all. While this might seem like a luxury today, tomorrow it will seem like a necessity.

The future of the Apple Watch isn’t as an iPhone accessory but as a stand alone device. For many people, an iPhone (or any smartphone) is overkill when all they want to do is make and receive phone calls. That’s why you see ads in magazines targeting senior citizens that sell simple mobile phones that do nothing but make and receive calls. For many people, that’s all they want to do.

That’s why the Apple Watch can be perfect for such people. With no distractions on the screen to get in the way, people can simply use an Apple Watch to make and receive calls wherever they are. Since the Apple Watch is strapped to your wrist, there’s no chance of losing or misplacing it.

Some people will always want the complexity of a smart phone while others may prefer the Apple Watch to make and receive phone calls instead. Then there will be those who may want both devices.

The Apple Watch has gone from a curiosity to defining the wearable computer market. With real-time health monitoring the main use for the Apple Watch, the simple ability to make and receive phone calls easily could be a close second. If you think you can’t use an Apple Watch, think again. An Apple Watch will likely become a popular necessity for the future, much like almost everyone owns a smartphone these days. When people look back in the past, they may marvel that anyone would consider going through life without a wearable computer just like today’s kids can’t even think f a time when the Internet didn’t exist.

Technology that seemed like a luxury in the past now seems like necessity in the present. Nobody talks about the Apple Watch being a flop any more because it’s obvious that it isn’t. You may think you don’t need an Apple Watch right now, but tomorrow you could change your mind. Just ask all those people who once thought they never needed a smartphone or a computer.

Wearable Devices as Crime Evidence

Posted on April 6, 2018 by admin Posted in Hardware Leave a comment

What it is: Real-time health monitoring data is now being used as evidence in criminal cases.

Many people still can’t figure out a use for wearable computers like the Apple Watch. Then again, many people still can’t figure out a use for a personal computer either. In the wearable computer market, wearable devices can track your health symptoms in real-time and alert you or others of potential problems. If you want to stay alive, chances are good you’ll find a use for a wearable computer.

Now wearable devices are finding a new use: as evidence in criminal cases. When victims are killed, wearables can track the time of death. Now if someone tells the police an odd story that doesn’t collaborate with the real-time health data stored on the wearable device, that wearable device data can be used as evidence to point to a time of death.

Such data has already contradicted the testimony of several murder suspects and allowed the courts to decide that this evidence is worthy enough for consideration. So now wearable devices can keep you healthy but if someone kills you, at least the wearable can also pinpoint your time of death as well. That can help catch the murderer, which is an unintended but useful application of real-time health monitoring by wearable computers.

If you value your health and value the ability to track your murderer if you’re ever murdered, then you’ll want a wearable computer. If you don’t care about your health or catching your murderer, then you can continue ignoring wearable computers for the rest of your life (however long or short that may be).

Wearable Computers for Cows

Posted on April 2, 2018 by admin Posted in Business, Hardware Leave a comment

What it is: Farmers are using wearable computers to track and monitor cows in dairy farms.

Many people think they don’t need a wearable computer and even worse, may think there’s no purpose for a wearable computer. While wearable computers like the Apple Watch can monitor health in real-time, there are other uses for wearable computers as well.

Swiss Lane Farms in Michigan uses wearable devices on its dairy cows. The trackers, called T4C by Lely, are placed around a cow’s neck. This wearable device tracks how many steps the animal has taken, milk production, how many times the cow gets milked each day, her weight and how much she chews. The trackers use sensor technology to record and transfer information to a software system monitored by the farm.

The biggest use of the trackers at Paramount Dairy is tracking how active the cows are.

“You get a better tab on all your cows,” Brent Moyer, the general manage for Paramount Dairy, said. “It helps you from the standpoint of being able to identify when one doesn’t feel good sooner. It gives you the ability to make a decision faster maybe than before you had a system.”

Wearable computers can track animals, packages, vehicles, and people. Wearable computers essentially put a computer in a convenient, light weight device that is attached to whatever object you want to track whether it’s alive or not. Wearable computers can help identify movement and behavior patterns that would be too time-consuming for people to track accurately every moment.

The future of wearable computers is here. It’s going to appear in different forms throughout society so get ready to see them popping up in all sorts of areas of life. The next time you drink a glass of milk, just remember the cost may have been kept down by using a wearable computer.

The Apple Watch as Crime Evidence

Posted on March 29, 2018 by admin Posted in Hardware, Medical Leave a comment

What it is: An Apple Watch may hold the key to defining the time of death of a murder victim.

The Apple Watch’s best use is real-time health monitoring, but this has a side effect. An Australian women, Caroline Nilsson, has been charged with the bashing murder of Myrna Nilsson. Caroline claims that Myrna was the victim of a road rage incident where a group of teens followed Myrna home and killed her. However, one key piece of evidence against this claim is that Myrna was wearing an Apple Watch, which recorded her heart rate data.

Apparently the Apple Watch recorded data consistent with an ambush-style attack where Myrna’s heart rate jumped dramatically as if under attack, then suddenly slowed as if she lost consciousness before stopping altogether. By using this heart rate data and the time that it occurred on the Apple Watch, prosecutors believe this contradicts Caroline’s story. Since the Apple Watch continually monitors health data like heart rate, it could possibly be used as evidence to define the time of death of the victim.

As more people wear devices like the Apple Watch, expect to see criminal cases supported or contradicted by the data stored on a victim’s Apple Watch. After all, the Apple Watch simply records data so it’s a silent witness to any type of murder. The Apple Watch is best for real-time health monitoring but in criminal cases, it can be handy to provide evidence on murder victims at the same time.