The iWatch Could Allegedly be Able to Predict Heart Attacks

[RaduTyrsina]

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Everybody seems to be expecting the launch of the iWatch, and the ongoing talk has been stimulated by recent medical hires and rumors, most of all. Now, according to Thomas Lee and David R. Baker from the San Francisco Chronicle, cited by the iWatchMag publication, it seems that Apple is interested in developing software and hardware that would allow the iWatch to predict heart attacks.

Apple has hired Tomlinson Holman, the audio pioneer behind the THX sound standard, back in 2011, and he is allegedly the person that will be heading the research and development of audio sensors that will be embedded inside the iWatch so that it could predict heart attacks. The audio expert is said to have helped Apple craft the sound equipment on all of its devices, but now Holman has taken up a new role. His new task consists in measuring “noise turbulence†of the blood flow.

Tomlinson Holman is a renowned audio engineer that has been developing audio sensors that Apple plans to embed inside the iWatch so that it could “listen†to the blood flow and then alert about “turbulence†levels that indicate that the person wearing the device is about to have a heart attack.

This is probably one of the most far-fetched speculations regarding the iWatch, but it’s not scientifically impossible. Apple’s interest in the health and medicine fields has been demonstrated with the plethora of patents on biometrics and medical sensors. For the past months, Apple has been on a hiring spree, as multiple experts from various medical fields have joined the company.

Source: iWatchMag

 

[teara013]

That would be a great thing to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ardchoille]

Apple would never make any inference to this type of statement. This would open a company up to more litigation than even Apple could handle.