jordanManfrey

jordanManfrey t1_j9a7o3h wrote

They already have this in the last few galaxy watches, you calibrate it by using a real blood pressure monitor and telling it the reading a few times while it measures the intensity of your pulse (I think) and uses that as a baseline to guess (fairly accurately) what your blood pressure is the next time you ask the watch to "measure" it. It makes you re- calibrate every 30 days, and it isn't currently allowed in the US (along with ECG), though there are ways to make it work if you look around...

edit: i misremembered why I had to work around the lack of the app needed to take those measurements - they're locked to samsung's own phones I guess (again, despite it being trivial to circumvent, which really makes me wonder if samsung's marketing and leadership are in tune with, well, anything consumer-desire-related lately.)

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