Apple was awarded a patent
for a seamlessly embedded heart rate monitor within in an electronic device (an
iPhone, maybe?). The patent was granted on December 24, although the the
application was made in January 2009. The patent describes an electronic device
with an embedded sensor to detect cardiac activity and cardiac electrical
signals.
However, Apple is not
interested in becoming a FDA-regulated entity, so the company’s purpose is to
use the heart rate as a way to authenticate a user’s identity or to determine
the user’s mood from the cardiac signals and provide data related to the user’s
mood. Anyway, it is not inconceivable that there could be medical applications
of this heart rate monitor by third parties, already there are companies using
the iPhone to build cardiac monitors.
No comments:
Post a Comment