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by melling 3748 days ago
My feeling is that for health and safety reasons everyone will soon be wearing smart watches:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...

We could use a few more sensors like blood pressure and skin temperature.

What's really needed is for Android Watches to aggressively compete with Apple. Apple and Samsung, for example, would really push each other.

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The MS Band2 has skin temperature and galvanic sensors but you don't see the temperature data like heart rate. I think skin temp used for the calories burned data but it would be nice to see it, there are third party apps to view it. It has a UV sensor too but only on-demand when you select it.

No I don't work for Microsoft.

Blood pressure would be tricky then again the watch is around your wrist so maybe not.

A real-time blood sugar reading would be nice to see too.

According to a supplier of sensors, OEMs are currently lining up electrical resistance sensors for their next smartphone models. Skin temperature is still too hard for smartphones, on account of the device's temp fluctuations.

Look out for fun lie-detector apps coming to your app-store-of-choice.

and peeing into toilets with live pee-anaylsis monitors.