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Some Tattoos Found to Interfere With Apple Watch's Sensors
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I'd be willing to bet if it came out that Steve Jobs or Tim Cook had tattoos half of the people in this thread would be running to the nearest parlor to get inked.
I have run many studies with IR sensors on skin surfaces reading pulse rate, saturated oxygen in the bloodstream and other body vital readings.
Tattoos are a big problem due to the pigmentation placed in the dermal layer. Most medical devices cannot send light into the skin for it read back.
To expect this to work through a tattoo is just ignorance.
I'd be willing to bet if it came out that Steve Jobs or Tim Cook had tattoos half of the people in this thread would be running to the nearest parlor to get inked.
I'd happily take that bet
Yes because many people (including asians) cannot memorize plays, or make predictions, or split second decisions. Tis' a form of sorcery that only one who wears a number on his or her back at work can fathom.
Doctors and Fighter pilots will never understand how hard it is to make a split second decision. People who trade stock will never know the value of making predictions. And Asian education is famous for having zero memorization.
If athletes have to memorize plays, why do NFL quarterbacks keep looking at the white wristband on their non throwing arm? You know, the one with the plays written on it? Why does he have the play sent to him from the coordinator? Why do NBA player have plays drawn up for them during a time out?
Did you know that about 70% of them go bankrupt two years after leaving the game?
Apple couldn't overcome the technological challenges to include many of the sensors they had initially wanted to include in the watch, so they were left out. The ones that did make it were probably tested pretty exhaustively, it's just an off chance that they don't work with a tattoo in that spot with a lot of dark ink. I don't think there is any malicious intent on Apple's part.
There is always the option to return the watch or wear it on the other arm, as long as that arm isn't similarly tattooed as well. Not every product out there is going to work for every person, which is why stores have return capabilities.
Apple has top scientists and inventors working on their products. It's just possible that the technology that exists right now can only use the green light to measure the heart rate.
Just return the watch and move on. Feel disappointed if you like. But there's no reason to make a federal case out of it or to start trolling everyone. That's just childish.
There is always the option to return the watch or wear it on the other arm, as long as that arm isn't similarly tattooed as well. Not every product out there is going to work for every person, which is why stores have return capabilities.
Apple has top scientists and inventors working on their products. It's just possible that the technology that exists right now can only use the green light to measure the heart rate.
Just return the watch and move on. Feel disappointed if you like. But there's no reason to make a federal case out of it or to start trolling everyone. That's just childish.
Clearly no longer a hipster. The gauged earrings are removed and he has money to dress like that.
Couldn't give two tosses what they do.
Anyway, I think people with arm sleeve tattoos will just have to accept the limitations to science at this point in time.
I'd be willing to bet if it came out that Steve Jobs or Tim Cook had tattoos half of the people in this thread would be running to the nearest parlor to get inked.
From second hand experience, I was told Steve despised tattoos. Supposedly he would not work with anyone directly that had tattoos and many people did not get promotions due to their tattoos. I have been told this is legal due to the fact tattoos are almost always elective thus not considered discriminatory. It was one of his hidden standards.
Perhaps MR can add this to the original post. And if people want to argue about tattoos take it to a different forum?
26139, w00, et al. This was one of the best 90 minute blocks of my life, so far this week! I laughed, cried from laughing, and laughed at w00 some more. In short, it was amazing. I learned what "tramp stamp" means, and now can be on the lookout. About the watch and tattoo, I still think the watch is a pointless piece of hardware and I still don't care either way about tattoos, good or bad.
w00, keep your trolling ways, you are too boss to lose them. You are an Apple god and I officially acknowledge you.
Until next time, and please let there be a next time, I'm out.
w00, keep your trolling ways, you are too boss to lose them. You are an Apple god and I officially acknowledge you.
Until next time, and please let there be a next time, I'm out.
Good call. Asians are never in the olympics and never do anything athletic and don't play any sports at all.
:sarcasm:
Tattoos may be a common thing, but wrist tattoos are NOT.
I was at a mall for my lunch break and decided to test this assumption. I sat down and watch people pass taking note of how many had wrist tattoos. I stopped at 200 people. While I saw lots of tattoos, only 3 people had wrist tattoos. I know this is a small sample size but I still think the results have meaning. I don't know about you but 1.5% is not common in my book.
By the way, you should probably stop criticizing people for stereotyping when you have been stereotyping anyone with anything positive to say about Apple as a fanboy or apologist. It makes you look like a hypocrite.
I think it is reasonable and justified to poke fun at Apple for this. This is the company that prides itself and presents itself as taking great pains to pay attention to detail... spending 9 hours to make the stainless steel wristband... filming a jellyfish at 500fps at a resolution of 9000x9000 pixels so that its motion can be captured perfectly... and so on.
To not have a disclaimer regarding tattoos indicates that they were caught unaware. That's the type of attention to detail that would've been covered.
Having said that, any disparaging remarks about those with tattoos, even in jest, is pathetic.
To not have a disclaimer regarding tattoos indicates that they were caught unaware. That's the type of attention to detail that would've been covered.
Having said that, any disparaging remarks about those with tattoos, even in jest, is pathetic.
We were taking selfies before there were smartphones. Screw the watch.
I wonder if the
Watch would work on Tattoo's wrist? Hmmmm...
I'd be in the half that didn't rush to the tattoo parlor. I don't own a black turtleneck either.I'd be willing to bet if it came out that Steve Jobs or Tim Cook had tattoos half of the people in this thread would be running to the nearest parlor to get inked.