It would be nice to have the temperature and humidity sensing as well, but any addition along these lines is good.
My wife has hypertension and she uses a Withings blood pressure measuring cuff attached to her iPad to measure her blood pressure every morning. Her doctor likes her to bring her iPad to appointments so she can look at a graph of her blood pressure over the past few weeks/months, so she can assess the overall trend up or down, which might in turn point to the efficacy of her medication.
iworking in the college that hosts the department of atmospheric sciences here at mizzou, i know lots of weather geeks who would love to contribute to research projects.
I think that's awesome, and likely efficient and easy for her doctor to interpret. Full disclosure, I am a physician, and the last thing I want is to try and interpret data from multiple apps on multiple devices when I have an incredibly limited amount of time to do so. When standardization occurs, then I can see it as being helpful (especially as we are all moving toward the inefficient Epic system), but I will be surprised if that ever happens as there are too many diffenent companies involved.
This recent obsession with health from everyone is so frustrating.
Siri: "It's cold you should put on a blanket!"
- "No thank you Siri!"
1 week later
Doctor: "So you have the flu? I can see here Siri asked you to put a blanket on and you ignored her, I would have to notify your insurance company!"
watch out guys...
In other words, Apple is the VERY WORST company to do anything like this.
The closest they could get would be a temperature sensor the headphone remote. But even that is so close to the body that unless the body temperature isn't much above the ambient temperature, reading will still be biased.
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Most barometers I know also measure the temperature because they have to. The pressure sensing mechanism is usually temperature-sensitive, meaning that changing the temperature will change its readings thus a temperature sensor is added to be able to correct for that. Where ambient pressure sensors might differ is whether they also provide that temperature reading along with the pressure data or only use it internally.
Right. Other phones have had ambient temperature sensors, with internal sensors for correction.
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It can't.
That was just an overall list of what the chip could be used for in equipment, not necessarily a smartphone.
Unless it's a smartphone with a hole to breathe into
Barometric light is a name for the light that is emitted by a mercury-filled barometer tube when the tube is shaken. The discovery of this phenomenon in 1675 revealed the possibility of electric lighting.
Amen, Piggie. I can only hope that Apple's various consultants are steering them in the right direction, but I seriously doubt that those consultants include physicians who, in the end, will be the ones responsible for interpreting and acting on the various health data collected.
"The poster had previously claimed a schematic showed the iPhone 6 carrying the same 1 GB RAM found in previous A-series chips, but that was quickly revealed to be a reference to an aspect of flash storage rather than RAM."
So the rumour about 1Gb Ram was mistaken with something else?
... the chip can measure breathing according to Bosch -
I was assuming the implication was that a device attached to the iPhone could work as a spirometer by using this new processor.
The site isn't called MacJournalismthey're posting rumors. If you want cold, hard facts, wait until Sept. 9.
Leave it to the MR forums!!
Seriously though... with all the available tech (NFC, wireless charging) we're getting a barometric pressure sensor?!? I would hope this is for the iWatch and not the iPhone.
I'll wait until Sept. 9th and hope to be wow'd, but right now I'm sitting here shaking my head. Give me something I give a crap about.
Thats a bit short sighted. I am not sure exactly how it would work, but if every iphone fed weather related data and location into a system I would imagine it could do big things for weather analysis/reporting/forecasting. NFC and wireless charging are small things that exist, that may or may not be useful, and that Apple could easily choose to implement with little effort - not having them is a design choice. But access to hyperlocal weather data from on hundreds of millions of GPS located portable weather stations seems much bigger and more exciting to me.
I'm sure you are right but honestly... I don't care much about contributing to weather forecasts. In fact, I'd disable it. Don't want the GPS eating my battery just to be one of millions of minions feeding weather data.
Exactly what I think. And, I can't figure out what Apple would use the humidity sensing for.
I think you mean: "iWatch out"!!!!!!!!
See what I did there?
I'm sure you are right but honestly... I don't care much about contributing to weather forecasts. In fact, I'd disable it. Don't want the GPS eating my battery just to be one of millions of minions feeding weather data.
And thats a fair concern - although I would hope that it would just ping your location / sensors every so often kind of like cell tower search etc does - perhaps battery drain is minimal.
Maybe its just me as weather interests me, but if there were some smart algorithms behind it, having so many realtime data points would seem to open up amazing things for forecasting and observations.
You nerds had your 7 years, now it's time for those who love being outdoors.