It Looks Like Apple Is Building A Brand New Health Tracking Device

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Apple has been steadily building towards a heath device of some sort. The Apple Watch comes loaded with fitness trackers and a heart rate monitor. The iPhone comes with software tools like HealthKit for you and ResearchKit for your doctor to monitor your overall progress and health. And now rumor has it Apple’s got another health tracking tool in the works.

Mashable theorizes it’s a smart scale, but it might also be part of upgrades to the Apple Watch. Either way, the device in question is expected to track heart rate, pulse, changes in blood sugar, and a host of other health data. It’s also expected to have touch features, so frankly an iPad you stand on isn’t the strangest idea out there.

There are a few questions Apple would need to answer before this caught on, not the least of which is who gets access to the data, and what happens when we live in a world where the actual physical weight of a given celebrity is just one security breach away. If you thought nude photos were bad, imagine what tabloids would do when some teenager creates a “fat list.” We’ll likely have a better sense of what Apple is up to next year.

(Via Mashable)

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