Microsoft smartwatch will measure UV and glucose

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According to an internal source, Microsoft is releasing a cross-platform smartwatch capable of measuring sun exposure (UV) and blood sugar levels.

Microsoft does not intend to miss the turn of smart health connected objects, and it shows. In the space of a week, we learned that he had teamed up with health home automation giant Insteon, that he had the objective of taking out a smart health connected headband to restore sight to the blind – and here is now that we learn more about his smartwatch.

Like Apple, it will most likely be released at the end of the year, and it intends to compete with the Cupertino company in terms of its health-related features. If in a previous rumor, we had learned that the Microsoft smart health watch would have 11 sensors, we now know two thanks to a internal source at Microsoft who confided in the International Business Times English : The watch will have a UV sensor (on the same principle as the June of Netatmo) able to warn its user of too much exposure to the sun, as well as glucose sensor continuously. It will thus make the lives of diabetics a little easier, a bit like the smart health connected lenses project for which Google and Novartis have just joined …

The source confirms once again that the smartwatch will not just be compatible with Windows Phone, but that it would be nice cross-platform : The group did not want to deprive itself of the majority of users who have a smartphone running Android or iOS.

Source: IBTimes UK

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