“The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 23 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“In this particular report we cover five design patents that were granted to Apple today in addtion to focusing on one key invention relating to an embedded heart rate monitor,” Purcher reports. “The invention states that beyond it being embedded into a future iPhone, the heart rate monitor could be embedded into an accessory.”
“Earlier this year Apple’s CEO and other team members were spotted wearing Nike’s FuelBand,” Purcher reports. “This led to speculation that Apple’s newly published wristband computer invention (that is popularly thought of as a future wearable computer or iWatch) would be an ideal device for embedding a health monitoring system. That makes this granted patent a possible key component of any such future device.”
Read more in the full article here.
Temporal implants anyone?
Apple is poised to expand in myriad directions into our personal space that won’t end with our bodies.
Thereby so will the NSA.
Yes, but at that point you become a militant citizen of the NSA who has been zombified to gather data, like a form of hypnosis.
You’re wife and kids will never even know you left the house!
Kind of. You’ll be an unwitting tool, carrying a remote operated video-camera/microphone/tracker/all-around-surveillance-vacuum-device around your wrist. You’ll do your part getting the goods on ourself and your associates, filling up city-sized NSA data storage centers being built in the midwest, with information for big money to use against you if you don’t comply. Thats the end game for the NSA, to attack US citizens, not foreign threats. Take chevron for example, their actions today is the future, thanks to future iWatch wearing pawns. http://www.progressive.org/chevron-gets-access-private-data-for-revenge-suit
Hey, watching, you’re a bit behind the times, my friend; Neil Stephenson described a wired-up spook stringer in Snow Crash, which he published in 1992. The reality is only now catching up with the fiction.
Neil Stephenson, excellent writer, I’ve followed him since zodiac when I bought the book in 89′.
Zodiac had shades of William Gibson.
How about an A7 chip to handle the mundane tasks for my mind? Like remembering birthdays. Calculating tips. Computing the distance to the cup. Recalling names & faces.
Make me Einstein.
how about apple’s newest chips, the size of proteins that circulate through the body, surveying, making health checks, some attaching permanently to endocrine glands and even more to neurons and clusters of brain cells. when you want to relive an event, you lock the door, get comfy, strap in and send an order through the iWatch. maybe, even rewrite a few memories that went awry the first time around. but then, it probably wouldn’t be right to remember wrong if there were friends that were remembering more right than you. you’d need a backup to get yourself straight up, again. so confusing. probably not a good idea.
“probably not a good idea.”
I beg to differ, for the very reason you cited; to avoid confusion.
What’s wrong with a piece of paper tacked to the fridge. Or you know, using your brain. It’s people like you who will just roll over and let it happen.
People like me, Carl? Oh that’s rich coming from a boy who’s hoping to get a little from his sister on New Years.
If you can see the computer, it’s a fail.
Google Glass, anyone?
Hey, can they hack Google Glasses?
If we someone wearing a piece of tape across their Google glasses does that mean they’ve been p0wned?
“If we [see] someone wearing a piece of tape across their Google glasses does that mean they’ve been pawned?”
No, it just means they probably finished having sex—their partner makes them wear the tape—and forgot about the tape.
Wait, they have sexual partners?
The glasses are cause for arousal.
Tape on someone’s glasses just means they’re a Nerd.
Or too cheap to buy more.
Adding that to Touch ID would be a way to up the security ante.
It’ll need to be more accurate than today then. In this dry weather my thumbprint works about 60% of the time.
I think everyone else is having a Christmas
We’re the Nike Fuelbands hiding the iWatch internals?
So does Apple have the experience to build robust devices for human implant and would they be celebrated like each new iteration of iPad?
They build the software routines for their hardware specs and release them into the “body” of Apple’s ecosystem and each time, the body seems to welcome the addition with great joy.
Apple is full of scientists and doctors with a passion for making their own lives better and Apple provides each one of them with a view of the future. If their passion is in line with Apple’s vision, bells ring.
So, could Apple earn an endorsement of the FDA?
I think they can and will.
iHealth pods being surgically inserted into the body’s cavities to promote health and quality of life sure sounds like a keystone to Apple’s raison d’être; Joy.
I for one, have no objections to exploring the possibilities of “internal” computerized bodily functions like dialysis or the disbursal of chemical but only time will tell.
The question is, would this serve Apple’s interests, getting into medical devices?
Bet you’d be surprised to see what a certain pro cycling team is currently trialling under NDA. You can probably put the pieces together.
Meca