Apple Watches monitor activity and biorhythm using sensors on the underside of the smartwatch that press against the user’s wrist. But future versions of Apple’s wearables could use sensors in the watchband to track hand gestures as well, a New patent She suggests.
The patent suggests that when the Apple Watch wearer gestures, the muscles and tendons in the wrist move, sending electrical signals that can be tracked by electrodes threaded across the watch’s strap. The figures show the range of motion such a range can track, including palm up and down, rotation of the wrist clockwise or counterclockwise, and lateral movements (such as when waving).
Apple Watches already have accessibility features that allow users to control their watch by pinching their thumb and forefinger or squeezing a fist, as described before Camel, which was reported earlier about the new patent. Increasing the ability to recognize gestures can broaden accessibility in general.
More ways to track body movement may also lead to improvements in health and fitness monitoring by using your flexed arm position to get more accurate exercise metrics. If gesture detection is sensitive enough, it could lead Apple to find ways to control its wearables in other devices, whether for playing games or navigating around Apple TV menus.
That’s a long way off in the future, though, when – or if – this sensor-laden wristband reaches production. While Apple has been able to include more sensors and harness the sensors in its smartwatches to track more metrics like blood oxygen level and skin temperature, it remains to be seen if they can create a flexible band that can add more bio-tracking to the Apple Watch’s body-monitoring arsenal. We are still Years separate us from the acquisition of smart wearable devices Works well enough to replace our existing wardrobes.
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