Apple Watch Fall Detection Credited With Saving Unresponsive Arizona Man (appleinsider.com) 43
The Apple Watch's Fall Detection feature is being credited as helping save an unresponsive man in Chandler, Arizona. AppleInsider reports: Fall Detection, introduced on the Apple Watch Series 4, can detect if a user takes a hard fall and will alert local emergency services if they don't respond within 60 seconds. The potentially life-saving capabilities of that feature were on display on April 23, when police dispatchers in Chandler received a 911 call from an automated voice, according to local media outlet KTAR. The auto-generated message indicated that an Apple Watch wearer had fallen and was not responding, and also provided authorities with the exact latitude and longitude of the man's location. When officers and the Chandler Fire Department showed up, they found that the man had fainted and collapsed.
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Buffalo New York (Score:3, Insightful)
What about the guy in Buffalo New York who was pushed by police and they walked by him ignoring his severe brain injury? He needed an Apple watch too.
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Wasn’t that a woman? Or am I thinking of a different incident like the one you’re referencing?
Re:Buffalo New York (Score:5, Informative)
Nope, different incident maybe .. the one I am referring to was a 75 year old man and happened within the last day or two. Google it, the video is scary.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05... [cnn.com]
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Re: Buffalo New York (Score:2)
Turn on your speakers if you want to hear a skull crack.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1... [twitter.com]
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In his case the app instantly evaluated the situation and chose instead to conceal him from the closest emergency services before they could finish him off. Apple is just that good.
It would have worked then also (Score:3, Insightful)
What about the guy in Buffalo New York who was pushed by police and they walked by him ignoring his severe brain injury?
That's actually a really good case as well where the Apple Watch would have called 911 - then very likely they wouldn't have walked by him for as long, as emergency services would have asked what was up with the unresponsive man who had police all around him.
After all, there are not going to be cameras on everyone all the time so you need something like this as personal backup especially i
Wider range (Score:2)
That is true only if one assumes that the police are mindless brutal thugs
It's true of any human who is obviously in a dangerous situation and already has a lot of adrenaline flowing. That adds an extra layer of danger that may trigger someone that would be fine otherwise. I also wouldn't advance on a group in a bar fight or even an obviously angry group of protestors...
Note that it wasn't even the two closest police that pushed him, it was one of the police behind them that ran up and did the main push
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Bad timing indeed.
Re: Buffalo New York (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh ok, the police recognized him as a murderer and therefore left him on the ground to die? That's what you believe? Lol.
Or is it that the police should be allowed to execute anyone, without even a fake mock trial, who opposes them?
Nobody wants the type of police force you want. The police work for us, actually we want people like you arrested for wanting to kill people for the littlest things. You are a danger to society and the type of order we want.
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Nobody was left on the ground to die. They immediately called for a medic dumbass. EMTs don’t magically appear out of thin air moron. The were given lawful orders to clear the square and did so using Lawful methods. The man was in an illegal violation of lawful order by law enforcement. Just because you’re ignorant of the law doesn’t make what the police did here wrong.
* An old man pushed over onto concrete with a force like that could die pretty quickly.
* EMTs aren't magicians.
* They didn't try to 'clear' or even arrest him, they pushed him over
* The punishment for violating this law isn't being pushed over with such force as to smash onto the concrete. It's a fine.
* What the police did was assault him.
Philips Lifeline (Score:2)
My mother has a Philips Lifeline gadget that she wears around her neck. If she falls and doesn't get up again within thirty seconds, or if she pushes the button on the unit at any time, their call center is alerted. They can talk to her through that unit, and if she doesn't answer them or says that she's hurt or can't get up, they phone me to tell me that there is an incident reported or they phone an ambulance depending on what she says (or doesn't say). The unit also reports her gps coordinates if she
Re: Philips Lifeline (Score:2)
The difference being that itâ(TM)s more expensive than the watch and requires a subscription that appears to be nearly $50 a month.
Of course, it probably doesnâ(TM)t need to be charged every night, but it sure is pricy, and lacks a lot of features of the watch.
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That's true, but it also has a dedicated call center who is used to dealing with seniors and who address her by name when they answer a call. Their purpose is to find out what's wrong and arrange for her to get assistance when it's required. The gadget that she has is designed for seniors who aren't familiar with technology -- it has only one button and is dead simple to use and is waterproof and almost indestructable.
It runs for about ten days on a charge and it tells her (literally tells her, meaning t
Contrast? Proportion? (Score:1)
Just putting this one man in contrast to the 110.479(*) that have died from complications with Sars-Cov-2 that will put this one lucky man in proportion to 100.000 unlucky ones.
(*) that we know about .. based on official numbers however those are mostly lower than the difference compared to average mortality of previous years.
Re:Contrast? Proportion? (Score:5, Insightful)
25M died from the Plague. 50M died from Spanish Flu. Way more beings died due to Chicxulub. What's your point? This is slashdot, a high tech device saved the life of a person in a unique/new way, it's interesting.
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"This is slashdot, a high tech device saved the life of a person in a unique/new way, it's interesting."
The gadget advertises that it does this and then it actually does it.
People are flabbergasted.
As for the 'news' aspect, when Googling "apple watch fall detection saves" I get 12,700,000 results other than this one.
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We waited 2 years for a case? (Score:1)
How is this news, it's been about 2 years since this was released? It was blatant marketing from the start, a device promising to save old people from falling at night while going to the bathroom, only it needed to be on it's charging pod every night... So, for the intersection of old people who 1. Have enough dexterity to remove charge refit 2. Can remember to charge it nightly 3. Survive watch-less night bathroom excursions 4. Fall when they are actually wearing the watch... It can save lives! The above
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It was big news 2 years ago, then Apple stopped publicizing it because it was becoming a bit too common and un-newsworthy. There were a bunch of comments about younger people (the feature default depends on the age of the user - I think if you're over 50, fall detection defaults to on, while under 50 it defaults to off on the assumption said younger person would be doing activities that trip up the fall detection. It is possible to change it and enable it, if desired, or disable it.
I think it's gotten so co
Why isn't this old news? (Score:2)
I got my mother an Apple Watch explicitly for the fall detection, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Apple watches with this feature have been out for 2 years. If this is really the first story of it paying off then the story isn't "it might have saved someone!" it's "why isn't it saving way more people??".
yeah it Works ! (Score:1)