“As rumors swirl over the potential for a so-called iWatch from Apple in the not-too-distant future, the company is secretly developing an entire wearable/attachable computing platform and ecosystem comprised of wireless sensing systems for monitoring not only sports activity, athletic training, medicine, fitness, and wellness in humans, but also for tracking packages and industrial production,” AppleInsider reports.
“Industry watchers could think of the technology as a series of Nike FuelBands for nearly all aspects of motion,” AppleInsider reports. “On Tuesday [Apple] was awarded the rights to a continuation of the now divisional patent application under the title “Personal items network, and associated methods.” It makes references to dozens of earlier filings, including several from the company itself dating back to 2001.”
Much more, including Appel’s patent application diagrams and illustrations, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We love our Nike+ FuelBands (which, of course, also double as our “wristwatches”), so we’re extra-primed and ready for Apple’s solution(s). Bring it/them on, Apple!
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And if you get caught out in the rain the little “moisture detector” is going to say what??
And what about incontinence?
I thought you wore the watch on your wrist!
It Depends.
Gee, ever wear a watch in the rain?
Not one with a moisture detector like all the other Apple iStuff so they can deny you warranty service.
“Please use an umbrella, Dave.”
Meanwhile, Microsoft is madly developing a strap-on X-Box dock to Kinect with….
I’ll stick with my Zune underpants, and Samsung nipple clamps.
Samscum, fire up your copy machines.
Too bad that Micro$oft is far ahead of Apple on this one.
I love the arrow that points to the garbage and says “Subscribe!”
hilarious
Hey now, I don’t want people tracking my package, especially my wife!
I think you need to rethink that comment,
your wife is the one you really do want to be checking out your package on a regular basis.
A secret platform based on this patent. That’s funny
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/02/theres-no-secret-plan-or-platform-at-apple-based-on-old-patents-acquired-in-a-lawsuit.html