It’s no big secret that both companies have incredibly ambitious plans for the future of wearable devices, looking not only to diversify the shapes and types of the products you’ve come to rely on for tracking your vitals and wellbeing day in and day out, but most importantly, aiming to vastly improve their capabilities, accuracy, reliability, and impact on your health.
Non-invasive glucose monitoring is coming (in some form) “within five years”
Samsung and Apple want to make this type of blood glucose monitor a thing of the past.
We’re talking about putting a blood sugar monitor on a consumer wearable without actually drawing blood, pricking your skin, or causing any user discomfort whatsoever. That’s clearly an incredibly difficult task for a number of reasons, but Samsung is confident the job can be done… at some point in the not-so-distant future, although the specifics on how all technical challenges will eventually be overcome remain a complete mystery.
Continuous blood pressure tracking is also in the works
Unlike in the blood sugar monitoring field, Samsung’s early blood pressure technology start could definitely allow it to push the functionality to a truly life-changing stage way before Apple can do the same. But of course, you can never know exactly how far the Cupertino-based tech giant has gotten with the internal development of a potentially groundbreaking technology until said tech is unveiled to the public.
