Month: December 2018

Apple begins selling the Beddit Sleep Monitor

Dan Uff December 7, 2018 0

Sometime Thursday, Apple began to sell the Beddit Sleep Monitor which is used to help monitor a person's sleep patterns so medical professionals can recommend a treatment.

According to the information:

Beddit Sleep Monitor automatically tracks your sleep and works with the Beddit app on your iPhone to help measure, manage, and improve your sleep. The sensor strip is extremely thin, flat, and soft — at 2 mm thin, you won’t even notice it’s there. With automatic and accurate tracking, you get a full picture of your night by measuring sleep time, heart rate, breathing, snoring, and bedroom temperature and humidity. And when you set daily bedtime and sleep time goals, Beddit motivates you to achieve them with tip notifications like morning results, bedtime reminders, and weekly reports.

This product requires the Beddit (for Model 3.5) app, which is available only in English.

The product is available for $149.00 from Apple.com.

For more information, click here.

Apple makes videos on how Apple Watch saved people’s lives

Dan Uff December 7, 2018 0

Apple has made videos highlighting how the Apple Watch has not only saved people's lives, but also has changed them as well.

Below is one of them:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tqB4jnCxqA&w=560&h=315]

How to set up and use the new ECG Feature on the Apple Watch Series 4

Dan Uff December 7, 2018 0

Now that iOS 5.1.2 is out, some users want to know how to set up and use the new ECG Feature on the device.

Here's how:

Update to the newest version of WatchOS.
Press the Digital Crown until you see all the available apps on the watch.
You'll see a new icon that looks like an ECG readout. (White icon with red lines).
Go into it.
You'll see a welcome message describing what the app does, and to open the Health app on the iPhone.
When opening the iPhone app, a message will pop-up describing the new ECG feature.
Within the set up process, it'll ask for your birthdate. Enter that in (press see the note Note below).
Then it'll tell you what an ECG is and show you some possible readings from the app.
After some more informational screens, it's time to take your first ECG.
Go into the app on the watch, a heart animation will come up.
Hold your finger on the Digital Crown for 30 seconds (watch the countdown on the screen).
After that, it'll show you your results. The results will be sent to the iPhone's Health app.
That's it.

Note: The ECG feature will not work for persons under the age of 22.

Apple tried (and failed) to secure rights to Friends TV Show before Netflix Secured Deal

CompuScoop Staff December 6, 2018 0

“How do you value a sitcom that hasn’t been on TV for 14 years? Easy: You tell Netflix you’re going to take it away, and see how much they pay,” Peter Kafka reports for Recode. “The answer, as we all know by now, is $100 million. Which is what Netflix is going to pay AT&T* for the right to stream ‘Friends’ next year.”

“Netflix wasn’t the only streamer interested in ‘Friends,'” Kafka reports. “Other bidders for the show included Hulu, the streaming service currently owned by Disney, Fox, NBCU and … WarnerMedia, as well as Apple, which doesn’t have a streaming service yet, but also plans on launching one next year. I’m told that Apple, which is spending a lot of money commissioning its own shows, but has yet to buy a library of existing ones, ended up pulling its bid for ‘Friends.'”

“You’re likely to see a repeat of this plot sometime in the near future, when Comcast’s NBCUniversal has to think about what it wants to do with ‘The Office,’ which it currently streams on Netflix but will most likely want to keep for its own, yet-to-be-announced streaming service that it will likely launch once it sells its stake in Hulu” Kafka reports. “NBCU execs say Netflix has told them ‘The Office’ generates more viewing hours than anything else on the service. Which means Jim and Pam may end up getting more money than Ross and Rachel.”

Read more in the full article here.

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