Growing acceptance
At the press announcement of the Apple Watch Series 3, Apple claims that atrial fibrillation affects tens of thousands of people and the condition is a leading cause of stroke but many people often go undiagnosed as they do not experience any symptoms.
The watch is already smart enough to calculate users’ resting heart rate and recovery heart rate (how fast the heart takes to slow down after rigorous exercise) but when the first phase of Apple Heart Study is launched later this year, it will be the first personal device of its kind to provide alerts.
So is everybody to start wearing a heart monitoring system on one’s wrist as it can potentially save lives?
If modern science reports are anything to go by, it would not be surprising if results of a subsequent study claim the dangers of wearing such devices 24 hours a day due to constant exposure to wireless technology or radio waves that are transmitted from the wrist devices to the owner’s smartphones.
Hence, it is too soon to say if wearing heart monitoring devices will be the new norm but as technology continues to advance in the modern age, there is certainly good reason to imagine the possibilities – a heart monitoring device that, upon reading a slowing heartbeat, will send signals to a linked smartphone to immediately call for an ambulance?
How about a device that records the user’s heart patterns for the entire month to provide downloadable data for doctors and physicians during hospital check-ups?