“Ten sensors sure sounds like a lot of hardware to stuff into a smartwatch. Yet this is just the baseline sensor count that’s purported for Apple’s yet-to-be-announced iWatch,” Jon Phillips writes for TechHive. “The Wall Street Journal says Apple’s mythical smartwatch will actually have more than 10 sensors, leading me and other tech pundits to ask, How is Apple going to get past that magic number 10?”
“Once we begin looking at the current wearable hardware landscape, we see that 10 or more sensors might sound like an indulgence, but none of the sensors Apple might include is particularly esoteric,” Phillips writes. “An expert tells me that a blood-glucose monitor is off the table (more about that below), but a suite of much more pedestrian sensors are available today, and could appear in an Apple smartwatch — should Apple deign to release one.”
The 5 most likely sensor suspects:
1. Accelerometer
2. Gyroscope
3. Magnetometer
4. Barometric pressure sensor
5. Ambient temperature sensor
Sensor suspects 6 through 10:
6. Heart rate monitor
7. Oxymetry sensor
8. Skin conductance sensor
9. Skin temperature sensor
10. GPS
Each sensor discussed further, and why a blood-glucose monitor is a no-go, in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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