Let’s Talk About The Apple Watch By Dave2D

Okay, let's talk about the new Apple Watch, the series six. So this is the first Apple Watch that I've wanted to own or to wear for like over five years. I bought the very first generation Apple Watch, but I didn't really love it like it just you know it was cool, but it just wasn't for me. I just didn't love the look of it. Furthermore, I also didn't find it particularly useful for my life back then, but there are two things that have popped up. That made me interested in the series: six number one: the blood oxygen sensor, so the ability to measure the o2 saturation in your blood, it's something that I'm familiar with in my regular work, and it's just we'll get into it.

But that was something I was interested in, but number two and there's a more personal reason. I am 39, I feel old. I am old, and I'm about to roll into 40 in a few months, and I've just realized that my actual health, like my sleeping habits, my cardiovascular health, all that stuff is starting to it's starting to slide like I have two kids now, and I mean this is a very personal video. But I have two kids and I feel like my health, not that it's poor, I don't think it's poor, but I'm starting to realize that I should. I should take care of it, and I and I wanted to pick up a tool to assist in that stuff, so we'll get into at the end.

But the first thing: first uh. Let's talk about the pulse oximeter actually before that, let's talk real quickly about the solo loop, so the solo loop is the watch band or one of the new watch bands that apple is offering this year. It's this giant rubber band and I like it's super comfortable, more comfortable than a regular strap with a clasp, and it's easier to take on and off than I thought it would be. So, if you're interested in the solo loop, it gets my wholehearted recommendation. I just wish it came in better colors, but I'm sure there's going to be some third party guys doing it.

Okay, the blood oxygen sensor, so this is measuring the amount of oxygen that's bound to hemoglobin, that's floating around in your blood expressed as a percentage and at 100. That would mean that your blood is, in theory, maximally enriched with oxygen. Now, this measurement o2 saturation is not like a casual measurement. It's normally used to monitor things. It's not just like you know.

What's the temperature today check it's not normally for that, it's normally used to measure certain conditions or to monitor certain conditions, and especially with the current pandemic, because COVID-19 is a pulmonary disease like it affects your lungs. This can be a very useful tool, but in my opinion this is not reliable or accurate enough in the current, like the in the way that it's used. So the hardware is excellent, but I've noticed that when you have on your wrist, and it's measuring off of your wrist, this is a awful, awful sight to measuring o2 saturation normally with pulse oximetry. You want to measure like through a meaty part of like, like your fingertip or something right where the light has a lot of you know it can travel through something, and you can measure it, but because this is a wrist mounted watch you're reliant on a reflection, they're shining light on your wrist, and it's reflecting back, and the sensor is reading that reflected light, and it is very difficult for hardware to do that, reliably and or accurately now. I've noticed if you take this thing off of your wrist, and you use it on your fingertip.

It's awesome. This thing measures up like I measured it on this thing and I compared it to a regular pulse oximeter. It seems very accurate, and I never get error messages. Saying that it can't get a reading, but the thing is this device is often mounted on your wrist. That's how the vast majority of users are will be measuring their o2 saturation, and it's just number one, not a great site and number two.

This is the big thing. It's almost useless information. If it's not accurate, then the number is meaningless. It's like a temperature right. Imagine have thermometer.

That's like plus, or minus seven right. It's like how useful is that information. Do you have a fever? Maybe not? How do you know you measure it 10 times it's like how right it's. It's there's a there's, a weird thing, I'm glad that this tech exists, but there are no instructions on apple's site as to like you know, take it off and use your finger. It's weird that this tech is in there, given the inaccuracies that the wrist mounted measurement seems to have.

But I'll be completely honest. I think it's really cool that it's in there. I think it's awesome. Furthermore, I just feel like the messaging around. It could be different.

Okay, let's move off this nerdy sweaty o2, sad stuff, because that is well the thing. The reason why I went so deep on it is because that is the primary feature that is different this year between the series six and the series: five like that it is how they're marketing, and it's just it is the primary feature. So that's why I went a little ham on that thing: okay, uh! Let's talk about just real briefly my interest in this device as a fitness tracker, so Apple has an upcoming service. It's called apple fitness, plus it's a paid service, that's supposed to be coming out at the end of the year, and it's used in conjunction with the Apple Watch, where it can monitor your heart rate and give you feedback to your actual workouts. It's an interesting idea, and I want to give that thing a solid run, but it's not out yet, so I'm just using the Apple Watch as a basic fitness tracker thing is: I have forgotten how good the Apple Watch is at the whole gamification of fitness and just keeping track of things, not that it's super fun.

But it's more enjoyable to have metrics and to have goals that you can chase instead of not having any of that stuff. The other thing I've noticed is well sleep, so this has a decent sleep tracker. I've never actually used one before, so I'm someone who sleeps around four, maybe five hours a night, and it's not great, like I've, always been told like everyone always tells me, you have to sleep more, but not only do I now have like empirical evidence that I'm sleeping poorly, but there's a good number of tools and apps to help me make changes in my personal life for health. So I feel like if you're someone who's interested in stuff like this uh, I mean just stay tuned in a few months. I will do I'll be doing a follow-up for sure, like just the process of what this was like for fitness interests, but for people that are interested in this device for pulse oximetry or measuring of blood o2 saturation there's probably better ways to do it.

There is one last thing I want to talk about: it's the battery life, so the series six has a slightly bigger battery than the series five, and, if you turn off the ozone display, I can actually comfortably hit two days of battery life on this new series, six, which is a big plus in my books, just charging this thing less, okay that finally wraps up this video hope you guys enjoyed it thumbs. If you liked it subs, if you loved it I'll see you guys next time.

Source : Dave2D