Apple's New EarPods to Come With Heart Rate, Blood Pressure Sensors: Rumour

Move over smartphones if you are interested in fitness trackers on the go. Here come headphones that can monitor your heart rate and blood pressure.

What else, it can automatically alert doctors if a dangerously high reading is taken.

If we believe Secret, an anonymous gossip app popular in Silicon Valley, Apple is set to launch EarPods that are also expected to contain a tiny tracking device so they can tell the user where they are if lost. Here are the Secret posts that first mentioned this device (via MacRumors):

Apple's new EarPods will have sensors in them, for heart rate & blood pressure. Also iBeacons so they don't get lost. They will require the lightning port, it's why the audio jack was moved to the bottom. [...]

It stores the data in a similar way to thumbprint point data, fully encrypted and nothing identifiable. But nice to send to your doctor to keep track of at which point your blood pressure started rising for example. [...]

Redesigned remote too. Extra mic for better noise canceling.

Apple's headphones could monitor the pulse of runners and automatically track their health and performance.

According to a patent by Apple, MacRumors adds, the fitness monitoring system is built in a set of headphones.

The embedded activity sensor can pick up temperature, perspiration and heart rate data, among other metrics.

"The phone stores the data in a similar way to thumbprint point data, fully encrypted and nothing identifiable," the report added.

Written with inputs from IANS