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The Register reports: "Apple's bad hair day: Watch 'stripped' of health sensors":
Apple has ditched plans to make its new smart watch a health-monitoring device following problems with the technology and regulatory issues, according to reports.
Sources told The Wall Street Journal that some of the features were too complicated, while others would have prompted unwanted regulatory oversight. It said development of its health sensor technology has failed to meet standards, with inconsistency from sensor readings, arising from hairy arms or dry skin.
"Apple also experimented with ways to detect blood pressure or the amount of oxygen in the blood, but the results were inconsistent," said the paper.
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Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Thursday February 19 2015, @07:08AM
I think the 3-4 year laptop cycle has been, and is going continue to quickly slow down. We're hitting the point where laptops are about as good as they need to be, baring software mandating hardware upgrades, and there's enough alternatives for that kind of stuff for anyone who doesn't have more money than brains when those mandated upgrades do happen. I'm more pissed off about 1-2 year old peripherals not being usable (ever) with the next (Windows) OS that comes out.
Even my several year old tablet does everything I want it to as well as it did when I got it. Of course, I only really use it for PDFs and ebooks, because it fits in a laptop bag better than equal volume of D&D books would, but it would be more than enough for just about anything else I'm causally aware of on the play store. Only other things that would be "nice" to have in it that you see nowadays would be a cellular radio and maybe a form factor that is more square. I still look at the new stuff and think "shinies". I don't buy it though, just allow myself to be impressed. That's enough for my particular brand of consumerism. I (generally) use hardware until it dies, and I drive my cars until they die. I guess I might be a minority. Really, I'm here, so I must be. I think your "average person" though would actually be somewhere reasonably healthy between the "use it till it dies" crowd and the asshole that immediately rushes out to buy every Apple product the moment it comes out.
I'm actually cautiously optimistic about gadgets that supply some sort of form factor outside of what we already have. It is still just an overglorified pedometer that tells you when the brick in your pocket tells it that you have a text message, but eventually someone's going to actually come up with a significant feature for it that might make it useful. It's at least more compelling than "Buy our new model laptop. It's 'Apple Black and Silver'!" For example, Microsoft AR thing might be interesting if it doesn't turn into vaporware. Might send every last thing it sees back to the mothership and be too damn creepy to consider. Difficult to say without more hard details. I also have an odd fascination with wristwatches and the "wearable" fad going around, so maybe I'm letting it slide on that.
Sigh. I don't know. Maybe I just really WANT you to be wrong though.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!