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IF YOU’RE PLANNING on getting an Apple Watch and sport a few tattoos on your arms, the device may have some difficulty working as intended.
The watch’s sensor, which is used to measure heart rates and check for skin contact, has difficulty detecting the skin if there is a tattoo covering it, meaning it’s unable to tell whether someone is wearing it or not. When this happens, the watch locks and requires a passcode to use it again.
One user on Reddit detailed his experiences with the watch saying it wouldn’t recognise his wrist when on his tattooed arm, but when placed on his hand, it would work as normal.
My hand isn’t tattooed and the watch stayed unlocked. Once I put it back on the area that is tattooed with black ink, the watch would automatically lock again.
The reason this is happening is because the sensor uses green light that’s beamed towards the skin.
According to Quartz, the beam penetrates through the first few layers of skin and measures the rate of blood flow in the capillaries sitting below the surface. The ink used in most tattoos ends up absorbing this green light, preventing it from carrying out its purpose.
Faulty component
The reason for the shortage of Apple Watch devices during pre-orders earlier this month was down to problems with one of its key components.
The ‘taptic engine’, which provides slight vibrations to simulate the feeling of being tapped on the wrist, was mass produced in February but after reliability testing, it found that some of the taptic engines produced started to break down over time, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The development meant that some watches were scrapped although it’s believed that none of the watches with the faulty parts were shipped.
When the watch was made available for pre-orders in nine countries earlier this month, the device sold out within hours. Some delivery estimates went as far back as August for some because of the shortage, although the first set of pre-orders were sent out last weekend.
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The ‘who killed your granny’ budget
@John F doe: The “fix Britain after 14 years of the Tories” budget
@Anthony Curran: by killing off the elderly? I know you shinners have a low value on life but this is disgraceful
@John F doe:
A quick Google search will show you just what the tories thought of the elderly…Savage cuts to resources for vulnerable people..
@John F doe: if SF get in this is exactly what will be facing us if not worse.
I wonder will Ireland be loaning money to the U.K.? As the loaned money to us when we were in a very dire state but we still are unfortunately.
@Tommy: we should absolutely help our wonderful nearest and dearest if needs be, they did it for us
@John F doe: dearest?
@Tommy: Economics clearly isn’t your strong suit.
@John F doe: In fairness they provided jobs for the Irish for decades, and still do, not that we need them as much these days.
@Tommy: let’s go Tommy Robinson
@John F doe: And maybe charge them an outlandish rate of interest like they did to us !!
Mad how the Torys can do whatever they like, recklessly destroy the economy BUT Labour oOOoooo ‘pure evil’… politics is truly pathetic
@Thesaltyurchin: the conservatives never launched an attack on the elderly
@John F doe: You’re absolutely dense.
@John F doe: Are you thick?. What age group do you think uses an underfunded NHS more than any other ?
@Ian: I agree
@John F doe: neither have Labour so what on earth are you talking about?
so she can take the blame when it will backfire
For all those ppl in ireland u say “the government can’t get any worse” of course it can get worse
The Budgies won’t be impressed with a tax hike.
Labour a bit like our own, pretend to be sympathetic and be the voice for the working class, yet when in power, o difficult decisions will have it be made. A conservative landslide is likely when they eventually put in a motion of no confidence against this travesty. Stammer the worst Labour PM since Ramsay MacDonald
@Alan: the Tories ran the country in to the ground for over a decade. That Labour would actually try and fix that by taxing the people that can afford it isn’t the “travesty” you think it is. The Tories are trying to paint this budget as crippling the working class but that’s, once again, is an utter lie.
Yep, how do you tax all the profits from State assets sold for a pittance to cronies and then offshored and shielded from view forever?
The once Great Britain is now little Britain a byproduct off Brexit.
What is this talk of Labour having promised not to raise taxes? Let’s be clear what they promised was not to raid Texas, and so far they have honoured that!
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