New report details Samsung’s bold Apple-beating health care vision for the future،
While Samsung and Apple are engaged in fierce battles for global supremacy on several different fronts of the broader tech industry, the health surveillance war between the two giants might be the most fascinating, hotly contested, and likely the most consequential of all.
It's no secret that both companies have incredibly ambitious plans for the future of wearable devices, seeking to not only diversify the shapes and types of products you rely on to track your vital functions and well-being. be day by day, but more importantly, with the aim of significantly improving their capabilities, accuracy, reliability and impact on your health.
Non-invasive blood sugar monitoring will arrive (in some form) 'within five years'
Samsung and Apple want to make this type of glucometer a thing of the past.
We're talking about putting a blood glucose monitor on a consumer wearable device without actually drawing blood, pricking your skin, or causing any discomfort to the user. This is clearly an incredibly difficult task for a number of reasons, but Samsung is confident the job can be accomplished… in the not-so-distant future, although details on how all the technical challenges will ultimately be overcome remain unknown. complete mystery.
Continuous blood pressure monitoring is also underway
Unlike the field of blood sugar monitoring, Samsung's blood pressure technology debut could certainly allow it to push the feature to a truly revolutionary stage, long before Apple can do the same. But of course, you can never know exactly how far the Cupertino-based tech giant has progressed in internal development of a potentially revolutionary technology until that technology is revealed to the public.