ICT&health August 1, 2022
As a healthy person, I wore for over 150 days a smartwatch that monitors my heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, calories burned, physical activity, sleep quality and stress levels. What did it get me? Has my health improved? Am I in better shape?
Ads promise that so-called wearables help manage health, modify unhealthy behaviors, motivate and even make it possible to detect certain diseases at an early stage. It is also a dynamically developing market dominated by big tech giants like Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, Garmin, Huawei and Xiaomi. 45% of Americans already wear smartwatches. In 2021, 533 million wearables units were shipped globally, 20% more than in 2021.
But how much truth is in what their manufacturers promise? To find...
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