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Samsung Unveils World’s First OLED Display With Built-In Fingerprint and Blood Pressure Sensing Anywhere Across The Screen
Samsung Display has unveiled a new generation of OLED panel that it says can recognize fingerprints anywhere on the screen and even check the user’s heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels using multiple simultaneous finger readings.
“To accurately measure a person’s blood pressure, it is necessary to measure the blood pressure of both arms,” notes Samsung Display’s press release. “The Sensor OLED display can simultaneously sense the fingers of both hands, providing more accurate health information than existing wearable devices.”
Samsung did not provide information on the accuracy rate or speed of its Sensor OLED display, nor did it explain whether the authentication and biometric readings could be taken at the same time, but the company clearly has confidence that the technology is destined for smartphones in the near future.
Well, this would certainly raise the game considerably for fingerprint, as well as health, sensing. It certainly looks like new technology is focussing on better cameras and health/fitness tracking in a big way.
See https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/23/samsung-sensor-oled-display-fingerprint/
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Why smartwatch-measured blood pressure still isn't ‘ready for primetime’ - Cardiologists are looking forward to the future of blood pressure tech — but the field still needs to catch up
It’s been over two years since Samsung first announced that its Galaxy Watch would be able to measure people’s blood pressure. The feature is available in a number of countries, including South Korea, but not in the United States — the company is still awaiting Food and Drug Administration clearance. In the meantime, other smartwatch companies have started experimenting with blood pressure tech in a bid for monitors on their devices. Fitbit announced a study trialling a blood pressure monitor in April, and Apple is reportedly working on its own version, as well.
The analysis, published in July, found that the blood pressures calculated by the Samsung device had “moderate to strong agreement” with pressures measured by an FDA-approved cuff. The results were about as close together as the results from two different FDA-approved cuffs were each other, Mendes says. The results held for people of varying skin tones and ages.
It’s important to get right — maybe more important than something like heart rate, Cohen says. “High blood pressure is such a major risk factor for stroke, major cardiac events, and kidney disease,” she says. “It’s so, so important that we get it right, because if devices are giving you an inaccurate reading, you can get very false reassurance that your blood pressure is normal.”
See Why smartwatch-measured blood pressure still isn’t ‘ready for primetime’
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The future of blood pressure tech still needs to prove itself.
