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Re:Apple in talks with Aetna to bring Apple Watch to million... by maxerickson on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:28AM (#15017534)
It's super easy. Strap it to someone else.
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Re:Apple in talks with Aetna to bring Apple Watch to million... by drewg123 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:34AM (#15017568)
Or to a machine, like Howard did on the Big Bang Theory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnTXqqCVaSI

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Re:Apple in talks with Aetna to bring Apple Watch to million... by Sleeep on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @10:02AM (#15018226)
That reminds me, back during the Tamagotchi craze (which coincided with the Pokemon craze) there was a virtual pet Pikachu that rewarded you for walking (it was a pedometer) and the screen would show Pikachu walking while you were. It was pretty cute. Well, it wasn't long before my little brother figured out how to "cheat" He put it on the washer. (I think dryer worked as well)
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Re:Apple in talks with Aetna to bring Apple Watch to million... by brlewis on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:57AM (#15017724)
True for current exercise tracking. I don't know about the future "large swaths of new health data" though.
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Re:Apple in talks with Aetna to bring Apple Watch to million... by drewg123 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:14AM (#15017875)
Well, perhaps a sufficiently complex machine that can fool their sensors, then.
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