Apple is reportedly planning to include health features in its AirPods.
Apple is a tech giant that wants good for your body. An observation that can be verified for many years with the Apple Watch, capable for example of detecting the symptoms of a heart attack. And it could soon be the turn of the AirPods.
AirPods to hear better?
Apple knows how to sell its Apple Watch. It is enough for the Cupertino company to show the benefit brought by the connected watch of the brand to the health of the wearer, and suddenly, the interest of the public awakens. It must be said that the tech giant is always more ambitious in the field. After options allowing heart monitoring or that of ovulation cycles, he is now actively working on a blood glucose sensor.
Since then, in the popular imagination, the Apple Watch has become an interesting health asset. No reason for Apple not to continue its journey in a potentially huge market. According to Mark Gurman, of the American media Bloomberg, the company founded by Steve Jobs wants to repeat this success by applying its recipe to the AirPods. These would be used in order to improve hearing.
We’ll have to wait a bit
Indeed, among the projects that the management is studying in this area, there would be that of transforming the AirPods so that they can serve as a hearing aid for the hearing impaired. Even if we are obviously still far from a functionality ready to be launched on the market, according to Mark Gurman, we could see it arriving on the AirPods which will be released in the next few years.
This function would be far from having been built from scratch. The headphones of the American manufacturer thus already have a conversation amplifier option which makes it possible to better distinguish what is said around the wearer. It wouldn’t be surprising then that after approval from the Food and Drug Administration and other international medical regulators, AirPods would one day become a device for better hearing.
Source : Wccftech
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