Submitted via IRC for Bytram
Smartwatches know you're getting a cold days before you feel ill
Once we had palm-reading, now we have smartwatches. Wearable tech can now detect when you’re about to fall ill, simply by tracking your vital signs.
Michael Snyder at Stanford University in California experienced this first-hand last year. For over a year he had been wearing seven sensors to test their reliability, when suddenly they began to show abnormal readings. Even though he felt fine, the sensors showed that his heart was beating faster than normal, his skin temperature had risen, and the level of oxygen in his blood had dropped.
“That’s what first alerted me that something wasn’t quite right,” says Snyder. He wondered whether he might have caught Lyme disease from a tick during a recent trip to rural Massachusetts.
A mild fever soon followed, and Snyder asked a doctor for the antibiotic doxycycline, which can be used to treat Lyme disease. His symptoms cleared within a day. Subsequent tests confirmed his self-diagnosis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @07:32PM
Why stop there?
Fuck the damn creationists, those bunch of dumbass bitches.
Every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
They want to have their bullshit taught in public classes.
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their asses.
but I digress.
In all seriousness, fuck the judgmental soilentils who think their armchair quarterbacking is more useful or insightful than that of experts in the field. Experts in the field who made the right call and were vindicated no less, by these things so many have become unaccustomed to these last couple of years: FACTS.
But carry on, after all, the world must be flat. The Internet says so.