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Garmin debuts an ECG app, but it's only available on one smartwatch
Garmin has unveiled its first dedicated ECG app, but you'll need one watch to use it right now.
Teenage Engineering and Love Hulten designed a drum machine 'with heart disease'
CHD-4 is raising awareness of childhood heart defects.
Withings' Body Scan scale can measure the composition of different parts of your body
Withings has released its next and far most technologically advanced connected scale yet, the Body Scan.
Circul+ packs an ECG sensor into its heart-tracking ring
An ECG in a device only slightly larger than a ring is a big achievement.
Withings' ScanWatch is finally coming to the US after FDA clearance
Withings' ScanWatch has received FDA approval for its ECG, clearing the way for the watches to be sold in the US.
Fitbit’s Charge 5 packs an ECG and stress response sensor
The Charge 5 gets new sensors to measure your heart health and stress response.
watchOS 7.4 arrives with an easier way to unlock your iPhone
Meanwhile, macOS and tvOS add support for the latest PlayStation and Xbox controllers.
MyZone’s hybrid fitness tracker breaks free of the chest strap
MyZone has announced an upgraded heart-rate tracker that doesn’t have to wrap around your torso to track your workouts and activity. The MZ-Switch is apparently the first device in the world that monitors both PPG (photoplethysmography) and ECG (electrocardiography) readings for more accurate activity monitoring with less “blind spots”.
Samsung's Galaxy Watch 3 ECG tracking comes to 31 more countries
Samsung has announced that it’s expanding the ECG and blood pressure tracking features in its latest Galaxy Watch models to the UK and Europe, along with Chile, Indonesia and the UAE for 31 new countries in total.
Fitbit will replace some Sense smartwatches due to ECG problem
The company says the bug affects a few hundred units.
Samsung's newest watches can now take ECG readings in the US
Galaxy Watch 3 and Galaxy Watch Active 2 do so with the Samsung Health Monitor app.
Fitbit gets FDA clearance for its Sense smartwatch and ECG app
Fitbit's Sense smartwatch will be able to detect atrial fibrillation when it arrives in October.
Withings’ ScanWatch is the best hybrid smartwatch I've tried so far
This could be the best hybrid smartwatch ever made.
Here's everything Samsung announced at its Unpacked 2020 event
Here are all of the highlights from today's Samsung Unpacked event.
Samsung's Galaxy Watch 3 supports ECG, but only in South Korea for now
Most notable is the electrocardiogram (ECG) feature, something Apple added to the Watch series 4 in 2018. ECG isn’t available at launch, but Samsung says it’ll be available soon on both the Watch 3 as well as the Watch Active 2. Samsung is also including blood pressure monitoring in the Watch 3, something not available on the Apple Watch.
Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 leaks again in detailed hands-on video
We already knew a few details about Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 3, but a new video from TechTalkTV (via The Verge) appears to reveal most everything else you need to know about it.
Samsung gets approval for Galaxy Watch Active 2's ECG, but only in Korea
Samsung has received approval for the Galaxy Watch Active 2's ECG feature, but only in South Korea so far.
Apple rolls out iOS and iPadOS 13.4 with trackpad support
Right on cue, Apple has released iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 -- and they're particularly big news if you're an iPad owner. As promised, iPadOS 13.4 has introduced mouse and trackpad support that lets you treat your tablet more like a laptop, including multi-touch gestures for navigation. Apple clearly built this with the iPad Pro's Magic Keyboard in mind, but you can use it with other iPads if you have the right peripherals.
Clinical trial will see if Apple devices can reduce the risk of strokes
Over the past several years, Apple has made efforts to expand the health-related features of the iPhone and Apple Watch. Apps and features like fall detection and high heart rate monitoring provide helpful insights, especially for senior citizens. Last year, Johnson & Johnson announced a study that would explore how these capabilities could reduce the risk of stroke through early detection of irregular heart rhythms. Enrollment in the clinical trial -- called Heartline -- is now open for US residents who are 65 or older, have Original Medicare, own an iPhone 6s or newer and allow access to their Medicare claims data.
Withings’ new ScanWatch is a classy heart-monitoring wearable
2020 is the year that Withings revamps its Steel HR line of hybrid fitness watches into a new product called the Withings ScanWatch. The new timepiece takes the basic idea of its predecessor and adds a built-in ECG to help folks look for issues with their heart, including atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea.
