Personal Devices · Recorded milestone
Smartwatch
Recorded year2004
Microsoft's SPOT watches get news and messages by radio; Pebble and the Apple Watch later add apps and health sensors to the wrist.
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- Pocket and wrist ECGRecorded · 2013enables
- Cuffless blood-pressure watchRecorded · 2020enables
- Sixth-sense wristbandsRecorded · 2020enables
- Homes for ageing in placeRecorded · 2022enables
- Continuous health wearablesRecorded · 2024enables
- Needle-free glucose watchForecast · ~2030enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.