ECG Apple Watch

ECG Apple Watch Dad claims Apple watch ‘saved his life’ after it detected heart condition I wonder, if I'd had the newest Apple watch back in 2017, would it have caught my own heart condition? I knew something was up but my doctor thought it was neurological; it took me collapsing at work and my heart pausing for 15 seconds, then 30 seconds, and then my heart rate dropping to 19 for us to find out I have a total heart block. As a technology journalist, Paul Hutton, 48, decided to buy the watch to try out the new gadget. But when it kept warning him of a resting heart rate below 40 beats a minute, he took himself to the doctor. A healthy adult should have a resting heart rate of around 60-100 beats a minute. Doctors diagnosed him...

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This year's iPhones, the last with lightning?

This year's iPhones, the last with lightning? As per usual, rumors encompassing future iPhone are getting down to coalesce into a homogenous set of expectations. the most recent info comes from the very reliable Guilherme Rambo of 9to5Mac, suggesting that this year’s iPhone eleven can are available in 2 sizes (plus a successor to the iPhone XR), have OLED screens on the top tier devices, keep identical resolution across the whole lineup, add a large angle camera, improve the selfie camera, have some type of fancy haptics, and finally: charge via the Lightning connector. Assuming the rumors are correct,...

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Vision impaired girl's use of iPad impresses Steve Jobs

  A 9-year-old girl with sight problems has swapped out magnifying glasses and other clunky equipment for  an iPad. Holly Bligh, 9, has albinism, a genetic condition that affects not only the pigment in her skin, hair and eyes, but also her vision.. To read, teachers had to make photocopies with enlarged text for her or she had to use a magnifying glass or other devices to read. Thanks to an iPad she now can zoom in and enlarge the text with the touch of a finger. Bligh can also read about twice as long as she could with regular printed material. Holly's attention span has increased and her mother, Fiona, estimates "visual fatigue" now takes twice as long to set in. "Holly's very adaptable and she's got a fantastic attitude,"...

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Apple Store vs. Microsoft Store

Same area of town, same time of da...

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Creepiest iPhone bug ever.

Some users are reporting that the iPhone randomly takes pictures of them when they make FaceTime calls: "...minutes ago when i called my GF and i saw a "picture" of myself from today when i was at the office..." See the thread h...

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Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released.

The iPhone Dev Team has announced that they've officially released their fresh jailbreak tools. Their package, redsn0w and PwnageTool, have been upgraded to jailbreak Apples latest iOS 4.3.1 update. The Dev Team states :. The 4.3.1 untether exploit comes up thanks to Stefan Esser (@ i0n1c on twitter), a security research worker based in Germany. Stefan has a long history of vulnerability research, and ironically his first contribution to the iPhone jailbreak community was improved protection last year he beat Apple to the poke and implemented ASLR for jailbroken iPhones with his antid0te framework. Were happy to see that Stefan then turned his iPhone attention over to an untethered jailbreak exploit! . The jailbreak currently supports...

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Wireless Mirroring With An iPad 2

Basically, we were tasked with the coming up with ideas that could help a client with their presentations. Sometimes they run Keynote Presentations on a Mac, and sometimes they run Keynote Presentations on an iPad using a VGA adapter. While I liked how mobile you could get doing it off an iPad, you're still literally tethered by the cable running to the the A/V equipment. I knew there had to be some sort of solution, but sadly there wasn't, at least not all in one place. So I started looking at combining different solutions, and luckily, not many were needed. The core components are the wireless HDMI transmitter, and a USB battery pack Oh, and of course the iPad 2 Via [MacRumo...

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