With Apple’s iWatch looking set to have a major health and fitness angle, and likely to be bristling with sensors, it seems likely that a pedometer will be one of them. Patently Apple reports on an Apple patent designed to allow steps to be accurately tracked using a wrist-mounted device. Or, in patentspeak:
Jawbone’s design lead Yves Béhar, meantime, has been imagining how “a wearable kit of sensors” could enable us to effectively take our doctor with us wherever we go in a piece written for TIME …
With the sensor system designed to be both “non-invasive” and “aesthetically pleasing,” and enabling us to take a proactive approach to our health, his vision sounds an awful lot like what we’re expecting to see in the iWatch.
