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How Apple Watch Unexpectedly Measured My Vitals During a Car Crash

22 points| gregcohn | 11 years ago |razorianfly.com | reply

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[+] DigitalSea|11 years ago|reply
The thing I found most surprising about this article was during the accident and subsequent setting in on shock, the authors heart rate didn't really increase by that much. I would have expected the heart rate to hit much higher numbers, the shock of being in an accident and the rush of adrenaline kicking in (causing the heart to beat faster). Glad to read that everyone was okay though. I am interested in knowing why the other car swerved in the first place? Was it an accident or were they distracted? The kind of metrics Apple Watch will never be able to tell us.
[+] Zikes|11 years ago|reply
Interesting to think that first responders may someday be able to check a person's "black box" to be able to assess certain aspects of their condition.
[+] Xylemon|11 years ago|reply
I don't think "assess" is the word you meant to write haha.
[+] gregcohn|11 years ago|reply
Not a technically rich article, but interesting conceptually to think about the kinds of data that are going to be routinely captured, uploaded, processed, and aggregated.
[+] Zikes|11 years ago|reply
My knee-jerk reaction was to think of the privacy implications, but then I realized that most people will jump at the chance to upload their minute-to-minute health status to the cloud.
[+] robmcm|11 years ago|reply
If he was using an Android device he would be inundated with calls about the, "recent accident that wasn't your fault"...
[+] jackvalentine|11 years ago|reply
It's a pity that the only way to get your own data out of the health app is via (to me, quite inaccessible) XML files.

Does anyone have a guide, or any guidance to working with them?

[+] vilmosi|11 years ago|reply
This is highly suspicious IMO. You almost died in a car crash with your family, yet two days later you wrote how glad you were that you can see a graph of your heart rate? Come on...

On the other hand, I could be wrong though, it's just my opinion.