We talk about health in the column of the day with two pieces of information that I will group together in one and the same column and we start with the range of iPhone 12, so the very latest iPhones.
They could be dangerous for people using a medical device such as a subcutaneous heart implant. The one we know the most is the pacemaker. It is a study of the medical journal Heart Rhythm which showed that the magnets and the electromagnetic fields produced for the device could interfere with these medical devices.
Among the new technologies of the iPhone 12, the models that came out in October 2020. We find M, which is a wireless charger that attaches to the back of the iPhone using a series of magnets. These can obviously be a problem. On the Apple site, we can read that you have to keep your phone at a distance of 15 to 30 cm between the iPhone and the medical device when recharging.
We would therefore prefer to wear the iPhone in a jeans pocket rather than in the jacket pocket if you have a pacemaker. Note that the system is not dangerous if you do not have a medical device with you.
Regarding diabetics now.
These diseases affect a lot of people, and there are several techniques to monitor their blood sugar levels. That of the old uncle who does the pifometer because he has no palpitation at the end of his hands, we will not recommend it. You can prick your finger to have a drop of blood analyzed and, lastly, you can install a connected device on the arm that will prick the skin and continuously transmit the blood sugar level to an application on your smartphone. Well, these invasive methods could well be a thing of the past since since 2017, Apple has been working on a technology for analyzing the sugar level via the Apple Watch, without any needles and continuously.
The aim is to offer an alternative to sick people. Healthy people will see, thanks to the watch, the changes that our body undergoes when we fall for a piece of chocolate. History of eating healthier.
At the moment, these are just rumors. But it is rumored that the function could arrive with the Apple Watch 7, so by the end of the year. Note that Samsung is also working on an alternative to integrate into their watches using Raman spectroscopy, which analyzes the composition of the blood in the veins without extracting a single drop.
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