“Apple has been developing a sensor-laden, fitness- and medical-focused wearable computer as indicated by several notable recent hires and information we have received from sources,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.
“New Apple hires on both the senior executive and standard engineering levels have expertise in fashion, wearable product industrial design, retail, blood-reading sensors, medical device product management, hardware engineering, software vision, and fitness,” Gurman reports. “As the rumored launch of the “iWatch” approaches, we have compiled an up-to-date list (into categories of leadership, fashion, fitness, and health) of all known and pertinent recent Apple hires to provide a clearer picture of what Apple’s future wearable technologies could offer to consumers.”
Gurman reports, “Besides Apple CEO Tim Cook and his executive team (made up of the likes of Jony Ive, Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller, and Eddy Cue), Apple has several high-ranking managers and executives guiding the iWatch project…”
Tons more in the full article – recommended – here.
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Oh, just shoot the messenger… 😉
iClinic.
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iWatch your health…
Well, until I read this article, I wasn’t too keen on this. Now, I WANT ONE!
Great article. People been calling it the “iwatch” ah but now you see it “wearable computers.” The iWear collection, sensors in your clothes, shoes, shirt, pants, belt, collecting data and sending it to your iwatch, iring, ipiercing, iPad or iphone.
i now believe that important people at apple religiously keep up with mdn and comments from its disciples, i’m pretty sure cuz those comments i made about working in my panties ..i’ll be damned if they’re not coming true.
Would rather see an iDontDie device.
I wonder if they will regard the product as a misfire
when it gains a lot of humorous attention as it turns
up in amateur online porn, worn not necessarily wrapped
around someone’s wrist.
This is going to be a Must-Have Product.