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Pairing an Apple Watch to your iPhone could actually save your life. This is some pretty amazing tech you can own right now.
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We've added electrodes into the back sapphire crystal and the digital crown
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allowing you to take an electrocardiogram. So, pretty cool tweet from Tim Cook
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Yeah, I saw it last night. I actually responded to it. Some people misinterpreted what I meant
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Yeah, explain yourself. It's a really cool story, though. It was a Tim Cook tweet relating to the Apple Watch
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more specifically the feature which can monitor your heart and perform, what is it, an ECG
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An ECG measures the electrical activity of the heartbeat, and it's used by physicians
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to help diagnose certain heart diseases and other conditions. And this is the first ECG product
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offered over the counter directly to consumers. Yeah, no, this is serious stuff. This is the kind
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of thing if you had an emergency and you went to the emergency room they would immediately hook you
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up to one of these if it was anything related to your heart or shortness of breath they would hook
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you up to a traditional version of this and they would get immediate feedback on on how your heart
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is behaving your heart rhythm irregularities stuff like exactly and so when they first announced the
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latest version of the apple watch they made it clear that it was going to have this feature in
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And a lot of people in the crowd you know they clapped because people have been talking for a long time about these sorts of health related advancements in technology that could actually help people not just apps like health apps where you input your steps or you track your calorie intake but kind of like
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almost more turning you into a cyborg of sorts where you've got this biofeedback of like how
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your body is behaving. And so if you go back to the tweet, new Apple Watch saved my husband's
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life this week. That's a crazy tweet. Only two days old and it diagnosed AFib
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so that's a heart condition and 150 BPM. He went to the ER and
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he never did in the past with those symptoms. He just thought it was nothing
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And of course in the ER they found a major blockage in his arteries as a result. Gave him two
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stents and now he's good as new telling the world thank you. I mean it's
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an incredible tweet in the tech world to see something like that
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where a device that anyone can walk into a store and buy could actually save your life
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So Tim retweets with comment. And then I tweet saying this is the best commercial I've ever seen, which it is
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And to give you a little more clarity on what I meant by that, it's like here's a real world case of an individual having their life saved by this piece of tech
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Like what better case can be made for why you should pick one of these up
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It's like you decide Apple Watch or death. That's an incredible proposal
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That's a very dramatic statement. It is, but that's essentially what they've encapsulated
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in this quoted tweet, which is very hard to do. Now of course most people don have this particular heart issue and most people aren going to be dead if they don buy an Apple Watch But here is an example of that actually being the case
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And that's a really compelling reason to pick one of these up, especially if you're in a particular age group where individuals do have more heart problems or something like that
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It's also a major differentiating factor for the Apple Watch versus other wearables
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Like, this is not popping up, at least yet, in other smartwatches
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So it's something that exists in the Apple Watch exclusively. And we can't say the same for other Apple products
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There are fewer and fewer features that are specific to one particular device
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So anyway, a few people got mad at me. They're like, of course, here's the troll Lou talking about Apple
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But they didn't realize I was sincere in that comment. I meant it's the best commercial, even if it's unintentional
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Even if it's not intentionally a commercial, it's the best that they can possibly do
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because it has that real world element and those highly elevated stakes of like this dude's life
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was saved because he bought an Apple Watch. That's intense. And with the Apple Watch, there seems to
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be a lot of praise. The fact that it is a health hardware, you know, and with these companies that
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is making, you know, smartwatches, do you think that it's a good move for them to concentrate on
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you know, health tech. It's kind of funny with these smartwatches, like trying to figure out really what they're most useful
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for because they been out for a while now and you still the adoption rate hasn been the same as smartphones for example do people really want notifications on their wrist do they want to be bothered more do they want games do they want specific apps i don really know that really depends on the individual
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but who doesn't want this outcome that this individual had so the thing about health is it
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it really encompasses everyone everyone cares about health to a certain extent assuming they're
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alive and breathing. Now, an ECG is one version of an instrument that can kind of give you feedback
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on where you're at from a heart health perspective. But of course, there's probably other ones
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other instruments you might see in an ER in a hospital that could potentially be miniaturized
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and put into wearable devices that could be interesting for people. I don't know. Is there
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like some version of that for blood glucose for diabetics? I don't know. But this is definitely
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one of those things where it's a it's kind of a proactive measure where you're like well maybe
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nothing's wrong with me but if my tech can tell me before i know it that's compelling and keep in
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mind this they got the watch and it just happened two days afterwards yeah you know that's quick
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yeah yeah it's a it's a quick result it's it's really interesting it's it's an amazing story it's
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one of the better tweets i've ever seen like i said assuming everything is as it appears it's an
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Incredible commercial advertisement, unintentional commercial for Apple, pitching the idea of wearing this monitoring device on your wrist just in case
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