Healthbook, Apple as Nintendo: The iWatch will focus on fitness and health - The Republic

OWN like Nintendo, who wants to get his degree in medicine plumber Super Mario, Apple also focuses on wellness and health. He will, according to rumors reported by the New York Times, through the long-awaited smart watch, the iWatch, almost certainly coming out later this year. But thanks to a new application that, according to 9to5Mac. com, has been symbolically christened Healthbook. The small program is already in preparation to be ready in time for the launch of iOS 8 – code name Okemo – the next release of the operating system in Cupertino. Designed just for traveling in parallel with the smartwatch home.

It appears that on December 13, some managers of Apple have met with the leaders of the powerful U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the supervisory authority of drugs, medical devices and food products. The caller must for anyone who wants to move in those sensitive areas. It was not any one shipment. The group consisted of among others, the Vice-President for Operations Jeff Williams, one for the software division, Bud Tribble, and Michael O’Reilly, former boss of Masimo, a company specializing in accessories such as health iSpO2 Pulse Oximeter, a device for iPhone able to evaluate the values ??of oxygen saturation in the blood and other cardiac parameters. This is to give the idea of ??the team working on iWatch and Healthbook, which is also part of Bob Mansfield, vice president of technology. Across the table Apple executives have found Jeff Shuren, for the U.S. Agency deals with radiological devices, and Bakul Patel, author of guidelines on app dedicated to health.

While the Cupertino headquarters, as well as by the FDA, they would not release any statement on the issue, came other rumors about Healthbook, a sort of personal diary of health. According to the portal 9to5Mac. com, the new software will bring together many of the features of the app including several in circulation (but third-party) already have: the pedometer calories burned up to distances traveled. In addition to the ability to track their own progress, for example with diets and weight, and all the vital signs, the pressure at the level of hydration to the heartbeat and blood glucose levels.

Nothing revolutionary when considered in isolation , a powerful new ecosystem when associated all’iWatch (essential for creating some of the data) and, of course, the millions of Apple devices out there. In particular, the iPhone 5S, equipped with the coprocessor M7 Motion. Not to mention the solutions developed by other manufacturers, such as Nike FuelBand, competitors up to a certain point: Tim Cook is still on the board of directors of the giant sports. And last year a consultant to Nike, Jay Blahnik, has been working on their new projects. In short, beyond goods with Cupertino, looming on the horizon may also have some unusual association.

Healthbook, in symbiosis with the superorologio and sighed with iPhone and iPad, and will integrate with other applications and should Passbook support multiple users. On the other hand, according to the anticipations of the usual sources, should be organized just like a virtual wallet of the activities related to fitness: you must choose between several tabs where data will be stored, training, information, meals. Even the logo should remember cards and tickets Passbook. Cook had indeed said last year: “The world of the sensors will explode.” Apparently, the CEO of Apple – that a couple of years pushing drum swing to slip into the multi-millionaire business of health – is orchestrating every aspect to make sure that this is the year that has just begun to open in the right ‘ company a new face of innovation, software and products. “2014 has big plans in Serbia,” he told some time ago to his employees. Among them, there will certainly be the iWatch, with its load of previously unseen (and healthy) functions. Among which, from what I suggest some industry insiders, the ability to charge the device through solar energy and movement of the body.