Samsung Galaxy Watch receives FDA authorization for sleep apnea feature

This medical monitoring feature’s approval is the first of its kind for wearable technology. Samsung Electronics recently announced that its Galaxy Watch was compatible with a new Samsung Health Monitor sleep apnea feature that has received De Novo authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The wearable technology feature is meant to help detect indications of sleep apnea in a wearer. The approval given to the app that is compatible with the Galaxy Watch and phone was the first of its kind the FDA has issued. The authorization…

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Researchers work to make augmented reality more accurate

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Augmented reality plagued with accuracy problems Augmented reality has been around for decades, having first been developed alongside 3D technology. It has only been in recent years that the technology has managed to acquire a large amount of attention, however. This is largely to due to the hardware demands of augmented reality and the fact that mobile devices and computers have not been able to meet these demands until recently. Augmented reality is still faced with limitations, however, which researchers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) are working to solve.…

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