Apple's Vitals, a feature on the Apple Watch that tracks overnight body signals, can now flag early signs of a respiratory infection — the flu, COVID, that sort of thing — before you feel it. Credit where it's due. That's real science. Stanford was involved. I respect it the way I respect a very good dentist: impressed, unwilling to make eye contact.
Because here's the part nobody says out loud. For the watch to know you're sick tomorrow, it has to know everything about you today. Your pulse. Your breath. When you sleep, when you don't, when you lie very still at 3 a.m. staring at the ceiling for reasons unrelated to influenza.
Oura and Whoop, rival wrist gadgets, do versions of the same trick. The industry calls it wellness. My landlord calls it rent. I won't be around for the class action, but the diagnostics will be excellent.
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Based on the original article "How your smartwatch and AI might detect early signs of illness".
