Apple's 'iWatch' to Feature Flexible Display, Wireless Charging

[JoEw]

If it's tracking my walking, tracking my sleeping, acting as an actual watch, allowing me to pay for things.

When am I taking it off to charge it? I charge my phone while I'm sleeping, how am I gonna charge this while it's sleeping if it's on my wrist to track my sleeping?

My exact question, my hope is that by wireless charging they actually mean wireless as in you can charge it in your home/bedroom while its on your wrist.

http://www.computerworld.com/articl...way----does-startup-have-a-game-changer-.html

If it has this kind of tech, I would be impressed.

 

[yossi]

Let me make one thing very clear. The iWatch will not measure blood pressure or blood sugar levels. That kind of technology simply does not exist. If apple somehow developed technology to measure blood pressure through a non invasive, not inflative technique, or if Apple developed technology to accurately measure blood sugar through non invasive skin contact, those devices would sell for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars each.

 

[Mtmspa]

[...] Tim Cook back in stage: "Well, this has been an exciting morning and I am sure you will love these new iPhones we've just shown you. [silence] One more thing..."

We aren't making a watch. We just wanted to troll samesuck. Hahaha. Cue the music.

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Let me make one thing very clear. The iWatch will not measure blood pressure or blood sugar levels. That kind of technology simply does not exist. If apple somehow developed technology to measure blood pressure through a non evasive, not inflative technique, or if Apple developed technology to accurately measure blood sugar through non invasive skin contact, those devices would sell for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars each.

How do you know?

 

[Wishbrah]

How do you know?

Probably because minimally-invasive blood draws are the standard for measuring BG's on diabetics.

 

[the-msa]

I'm wondering what displays they will use if it's flexible...? Samsung showed flexible displays a year ago. Well they use those?

 

[Windlasher]

If it's tracking my walking, tracking my sleeping, acting as an actual watch, allowing me to pay for things.

When am I taking it off to charge it? I charge my phone while I'm sleeping, how am I gonna charge this while it's sleeping if it's on my wrist to track my sleeping?

You are going to put the charger under your pillow case.

 

[Daalseth]

I'd just Laugh

I'd laugh my @$$ off if the iWatch turned out to be an Apple branded security camera.

 

[Windlasher]

Probably because minimally-invasive blood draws are the standard for measuring BG's on diabetics.

Soooooo maybe its got a little needle that pokes ya....

 

[mpavilion]

Soooooo maybe its got a little needle that pokes ya....

iPrick

 

[Stanick]

Samsung: My mind, my body and specially my ass are ready to be kicked

I fear Samsung are tired of waitng for their ass to be kicked... 5 years since the S9110 is a long time to wait.

 

[sketchguy]

I find it incredibly fascinating that Apple has been able to keep the lid on any leaks of the iWatch, yet the iPhone 6 leaks continue to flow on a regular basis.

Different manufacturer with more stringent penalties if leaks occur?

 

[Lepton]

Why do you want to keep it on when you sleep?

I keep my current watch on while I sleep. I think one of Apple's zillions of patents involves wireless charging with a range of one meter. That should be good enough to have a charger unit on your nightstand and it could charge while you sleep.

Wouldn't it be great if it could pick up a charge out of the air from aWiFi signal or something?

 

[mpavilion]

I find it incredibly fascinating that Apple has been able to keep the lid on any leaks of the iWatch, yet the iPhone 6 leaks continue to flow on a regular basis.

Different manufacturer with more stringent penalties if leaks occur?

iPhone currently in production; watch not yet in production.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

I wear a watch, but I take it off when I'm at home and when sleeping. But, if I wanted to keep it on at night, where some people I know do, it would pose a challenge to get it charged and sleep well at the same time!

Where, pray tell, do they wear it at night?

Gives kinetic charging a new meaning...

"Honey, let's charge the watch tonight!"

 

[cube]

I was thinking today that if the battery is going to last less than a year, it should have wireless charging.

But one would not want to take yet another charger on holidays. That still seems like an ambitious target.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Soooooo maybe its got a little needle that pokes ya....

Anything that breaks the skin will need FDA approval as a medical device, and that's a whole other ball of wax.

I've been waiting for 2 years for the Animas Vibe pump which has been on sale in Europe for 4 years.

Here are some CGMs out there:
Www.dexcom.com
Www.minimed.com

I'm not holding my breath on this feature.

 

[Cinch]

likely has not made into production

I find it incredibly fascinating that Apple has been able to keep the lid on any leaks of the iWatch, yet the iPhone 6 leaks continue to flow on a regular basis.

Different manufacturer with more stringent penalties if leaks occur?

I strongly suspect that the watch has not made it into the production pipeline. This is also how the original iPhone was a well kept secret. There was lots of talk about an Apple iPhone prior to announcement, but there were no leaked photos.

 

[Aluminum213]

thats what they said about phones. but now were used to just docking our iphones on our bedside table every night.
Id wager theres some sort of wireless charging

Lol @ having to charge a watch every night


People will go to sleep with the watch on, then next day when they go out they have some dead plastic tech on their wrist all day? Lol

 

[MacMan414]

My bet

I hope the iWatch will have the following features. I think some of these are realistic, but who knows:

1) Wireless charging
2) Ability to read SMS/iMessages
3) Ability to play music via apps like Spotify and store songs offline. This would make going to the gym super convenient, especially because I don't like taking my phone with me to the gym.
4) Mobile payments
5) Motion control for iPhone and iPad games. Think about a tennis game where you swipe your arm to return a shot, or a bowling game where you move your arm to take the shot. Also can be used for things like pausing movies on Apple TV, scrolling on webpages, etc...
6) Siri
7) Have touch ID

and most importantly:

8) Not be ugly or in the shape of a square.

 

[mcdspncr]

Probably because minimally-invasive blood draws are the standard for measuring BG's on diabetics.

According to MR over the past few months, Apple has been hiring teams who have been working on tech ranging from microneedles to light at specific wavelengths that shows glucose saturation in the capillaries (much like how current pulse oximetry works for O2 saturation). Either way, all this would likely be down the road, and longer with FDA approval, but fingers crossed for gen 2. Non-invasive glucose monitoring would be an almost guarrenteed 30 million customer base in the US alone.

 

[Windlasher]

Anything that breaks the skin will need FDA approval as a medical device, and that's a whole other ball of wax.

I've been waiting for 2 years for the Animas Vibe pump which has been on sale in Europe for 4 years.

Here are some CGMs out there:
Www.dexcom.com
Www.minimed.com

I'm not holding my breath on this feature.

1: Dude - Your humor detector broken?

2: Apple Reportedly is seeking medical device status for it.

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iPrick

Nice!! But I don't think Tim's sense of humor runs to the dark side.

 

[Daalseth]

iPrick

"Honey, let's charge the watch tonight!"

 

[odedia]

Health monitoring is the next big thing in tech. A friend of mine in Harvard applied engineering and physics talked to me about what people are working on, some tech which sits in your "watch" like device constantly monitoring your blood for cancer cells, and it will be able to detect 1 in a million, which is basically the earliest you can catch and kill cancer before it spreads.

So a tech which you wear on your wrist will eventually be the "end of cancer" as we know it.

Let that info sit in for a while and now think why a health sensing watch is important.

This is 15-20 years into the future but still, iWatch will be the beginning.

You know, this makes me think that perhaps all this development on iWatch began when Steve was so sick from cancer.

 

[HiRez]

Analyst Says iWatch Will Come With Free Unicorn

 

[wovel]

Dear MacRumors,

You have my permission not to include a hideous mock up picture with every iWatch story. There is absolutely no chance that any of these pictures will be even remotely accurate. They have nothing at all to do with the story. Let it go.