I'd love to get my Mom and Apple Watch but getting her to switch to iPhone is probably a bridge too far. How come no Android watches have this functionality?
Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
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Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#82Alternate headline: “Potentially Life-saving Tech Works as Advertised”. I know, I know, it’s a human interest story and the regular folks might not know this. But my first thought reading the headline was, “it better call, or I’m going to be puzzling how to get a refund in the afterlife.”
Does Apple marketing guarantee that it will work? I bought watches for my parents, partly because of the feature, but I never had the impression that it was guaranteed to correctly detect all (or even most) life threatening situations
> I never had the impression that it was guaranteed to correctly detect all (or even most) life threatening situations
Apple Watch detects falls, not unconsciousness. It doesn't detect heart attacks either.
> Apple Watch cannot detect all falls. The more physically active you are, the more likely you are to trigger fall detection due to high impact activity that can appear to be a fall. [0]
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#83I have lots of criticisms for Apple, but this is truly an amazing thing that technology has brought us to this point. This is one of the few things that has me feeling like we "live in the future"
In the future, everyone will wear a smart watch (2015):
https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...
I’m disappointed that Android Wear didn’t take off.
More competition would greatly increase innovation.
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#84My friend was digging a hole in her garden. Her watch asked her, "are you ok?".
Digging is a very strenuous activity as well as shoveling. Anytime there's a major snow storm, enough people die from shoveling. So it probably detected that she was very stressed.
Can confirm, grandfather died from a heart attack when shoveling snow.
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#85Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please do not use code blocks for quotes, it creates long side-scrolling windows.
Can someone fix this? WHERE'S DANG, he's sniffing around all the time. It has to be one line of CSS.
> Can someone fix this?
There is nothing to fix: code blocks do (almost) exactly the right thing for code. (the indentation on the right is unnecessary and counterproductive, though, but that's not the main source of the complaint here.)
They are horrible for quotes, especially on mobile, but that's not what they are for. Admittedly, quotes are vastly more common than code on HN and HN could use a good quote formatting mechanism, but that's a missing feature, not a bug in code formatting.
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#87Headline is misleading. The watch detects falls and calls 911 based on that, not based on "unconscious".
It also requires them click "i'm ok" if when it detects the fall, so if the person is not unconscious they can click that to stop the emergency call.
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#88Anyone know of any force alarm emergency service automatic dials from a watch or app (Apple or otherwise?).
I am having a hell of a time trying to parse that sentence. Can you rephrase?
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#89Curios: does Android Wear OS has none of this features? - Heart rate monitoring and warning when something is not right with the heart? - Fall detection and call 911?
Upcoming Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 has heart rate, ECG, warnings, and fall detection… but Samsung, so who knows how well any of it will work.
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#90Why does everyone who praises Apple on HN qualify it with the fact that they don’t like Apple for other reasons? Also, Apple is probably the best corporate citizen of any company its relative size in history.