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Apple is investigating how the addition of electrodes to Apple Watch bands could detect the muscle movement and minute electrical activity when a user makes just about any finger gesture.
Apple Watch already knows when you’re just lazing around and should really start a workout. But in future, it could glean details from electrodes in your Watch band that tell it much more precisely that you’re shaking your fist and not doing anything actually active.
Apple Watch already knows when you’re just lazing around and should really start a workout. But in future, it could glean details from electrodes in your Watch band that tell it much more precisely that you’re shaking your fist and not doing anything actually active.
A newly-granted patent, “Electrodes For Gesture Recognition,” says that such detection is necessary because other forms of gesture control have problems.
“In particular, a person’s physical motions, such as eye gaze, body movement and the like can be detected and tracked over time as inputs to the computing system,” it says. “Hand gestures, in particular, can be detected by touch or proximity sensors in a touch sensing panel.”
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Future Apple Watch band could detect the smallest finger movements and gestures
