Apple Watch Series 8 announced with temperature sensor, crash detection
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#63C1V)
The Apple Watch Series 8. | Image: Apple Apple has announced its latest wearable, the Apple Watch Series 8. It includes a new temperature sensor, which Apple says takes its commitment to women's health even further." The Series 8 also includes two new motion sensors to detect if you've been in a severe car crash.
The company says it can track temperature changes as slight as 0.1 degrees Celsius and that it checks your temperature every five seconds. The company says that tracking your body temperature overnight can help give you insights into your ovulation cycle, which it can use to enhance the watch's cycle tracking feature for those who menstruate. The company says that this data is encrypted on the watch itself - an important consideration for anyone tracking their cycles a...