Apple Watch wrist detection failing with some tattoos
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Wrist detection on the Apple Watch may not work properly for some people with lower-arm tattoos, as they appear to fool the device's sensors, some early adopters of the device have said.
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Why does it need to detect that it's on a wrist anyway? I don't see what problem that could possibly solve
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The article mentioned something about locking, so my buttumption is that if it's not on your wrist, it can lock itself so hackers can't steal your
identityApple Pay information.
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Dark skin color could theoretically affect accuracy, although Apple states that the Watch will increase LED brightness and sampling rate to deal with tough reads.
Good thing they didn't think about this before...
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I wonder how it works on people with werewolf arms, like me. I wouldn't be caught dead with an Apple device on me, so I guess it's a moo point
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I love it when two BAD IDEAS come together! /Hannibal
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Fucking hell, just how hard is it to differentiate between "there's something adjacent to me" and "there's nothing adjacent to me?" A fucking well-placed button could do it.
I mean, it takes Apple to not only reinvent a button, but also make it not work.
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A fucking well-placed button could do it
Or a pressure sensor, or a sensor in the strap to tell when it's undone, or motion sensing, or loads of ways that would work better than shining a light and seeing what comes back
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I mean, it takes Apple to not only reinvent a button, but also make it not work.
- Invent new button.
- New button doesn't work.
- ?????
- MA$$IVE PROFIT$$$!!
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Is it all it does, really?
I mean, if it's used for wallet access as well, I'd suspect some identification attempt as well?
Then again, I don't know how you'd identify someone based purely on their wrist, so there's that...
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Or a pressure sensor, or a sensor in the strap to tell when it's undone, or motion sensing, or loads of ways that would work better than shining a light and seeing what comes back
It seems like the real point of the light is to check stuff like pulse rate. I suspect the security stuff just piggy backed. So it's sort of an understandable mistake in retrospect, similar to getting the tattoo or buying an Apple thing.
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Would you pay $4,332,043 for a watch that only uses a button to detect you? The shining light thing makes the price tag more reasonable
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Fucking hell, just how hard is it to differentiate between "there's something adjacent to me" and "there's nothing adjacent to me?
i may be reading the article wrong, but isn't the point of the sensor to see if the wrist the watch is on belongs to the person who owns the watch?
that's a bit more complicated than just a button... except when it doesn't work. :-P
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i may be reading the article wrong, but isn't the point of the sensor to see if the wrist the watch is on belongs to the person who owns the watch?
It's just a light though; it doesn't look for anything unique to the individual, AFAICT
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i may be reading the article wrong, but isn't the point of the sensor to see if the wrist the watch is on belongs to the person who owns the watch?
That's not how I read it...
It seems like the real point of the light is to check stuff like pulse rate. I suspect the security stuff just piggy backed. So it's sort of an understandable mistake in retrospect, similar to getting the tattoo or buying an Apple thing.
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oh, so about as secure as the "fingerprint" sensor on the new iphones then.
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Why does it need to detect that it's on a wrist anyway? I don't see what problem that could possibly solve
It's to stop you from using it as a cock watch, that's why.
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We already know it can't reliably detect what's a wrist. What makes you think it can tell one from a cock?
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Great idea, I always felt looking at my wrist to see the current time was just too damn convenient.
I think I scared my coworker who asked for the time...
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Great idea, I always felt looking at my wrist to see the current time was just too damn convenient.
I think I scared my coworker who asked for the time...
And now, storytime.
"Hey, do you have the time?"
zip
"Nevermind, don't wanna know."
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Why does it need to detect that it's on a wrist anyway? I don't see what problem that could possibly solve
@the article said:
Wrist detection relies on light sensors on the back of the device which also serve as a heart rate tracker
Clearly, the watch is designed to only work if the user is alive. Would you want a smartwatch that could be used by the enemy after the zombie apocalypse?
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Headline and sub-head from yesterday:
Apple Watch WRISTJOB SHORTAGE: It's down to BAD VIBES
Cupertino idiot-tax operation junks duff throbbless jazzbangles
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From here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/30/apple_watch_taptic_engine_non_vibrating_wristjobs_binned/
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Cupertino idiot-tax operation junks duff throbbless jazzbangles
Wait, this is like one of those Youtube videos where someone says nonsense in a way that sounds like a given language, but actually isn't real words at all, right?
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Cupertino - Californian
idiot-tax - financed by undiscriminating consumers who don't know the meaning of value-for-money
operation - company
junks - throws away
duff - defective
throbless - lacking vibration
jazz - flashy, showy
bangles - bracelets designed to draw attention rather than enhance beauty.
Filed under: separated by a common language
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Also, "wristjob" sounds dirty, so it figures Brits would use it as slang.
More seriously, "idiot-tax" isn't a fair blurb; the body just says some of the hardware was defective.
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Well yeah, but it's an Apple product; even the ones that are not defective aren't worth the money the Apple fanbois are shoveling Cupertino-way.
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separated by a common language
I'm aware of what it actually meant, but I did actually have to read it a couple of time first. What is it about UKians that they feel the need to write in such glossolalia?
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Well yeah, but it's an Apple product; even the ones that are not defective aren't worth the money the Apple fanbois are shoveling Cupertino-way.
Sure, but that's hardly a new thing.
I was amused last week to read an article--no, I think I heard it on Rush--that regular people just can't buy these things because, as usual, there weren't enough made (as if that's a problem specific to Apple) but they were giving the $25K version away to celebrities.
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What is it about UKians that they feel the need to write in such glossolalia?
What's wrong with sesquipedalian loquaciousness?
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bangles - bracelets designed to draw attention rather than enhance beauty.
Never heard that connotation. Bangles are a specific type of bracelet, the kind that are a rigid ring rather than a chain.
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bangles - bracelets designed to draw attention rather than enhance beauty
Or hide energy blades:
The render makes it look like crystal; it's not. Think lightsabre.
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Never heard that connotation.
Given the rest of the sentence, "bangle" was chosen probably because it's a less-used word and thus contributed to the author's overestimate of his own cleverness.
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TDEMSAR
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What's wrong with sesquipedalian loquaciousness?
Nothing, in and of itself. It's a bit out of place on a news[1][2] site.
[1] setting aside, for the moment, the question of whether El Reg is a "news" site per se.
[2] as in, "an article intended to convey information". Tarting up your sentences with unusual words seems to contradict the former goal. That sentence seems to have approached an event horizon of twee or something.
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Bangles are a specific type of bracelet, the kind that are a rigid ring rather than a chain.
And the reason they're called "bangles" is when you move your wrist they bang into each other and jingle, essentially audibly yelling "Look at me!" Beauty is usually a lot more subtle than that.
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Definitions aside, those bracers do not make me think "bangle".
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Definitions aside, those bracers do not make me think "bangle".
They are rigid and worn around the wrist, although given their inbuilt offensive capabilities, they're not ornamental.Weirdly, most wikis will say that they're the cuffs of the gloves; that's wrong, as Sally removes one of her ringblades (their true name, I shit you not) in one of the story arcs.
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Never heard that connotation. Bangles are a specific type of bracelet, the kind that are a rigid ring rather than a chain.
The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian (Official Video) – 03:23
— TheBanglesVEVO
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So, is it time for bangles and mash already?
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Never heard that connotation. Bangles are a specific type of bracelet, the kind that are a rigid ring rather than a chain.
The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
Well, now I'm rigid.
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I'm rigid
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It's to stop you from using it as a cock watch
In any case, Troy Hurtubise has that market all sewn up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPS2l5fQ55A&t=4m40s
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Bah. Weak. Kryten has the universal attachment port.