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Former Apple Engineers Find Another Way Onto the Wrist
· New York time
Hiyd is a biometric tracker that attaches to a watch someone already wears. Its former Apple engineer founders developed an attachment approach that does not require magnets or adhesives. That mechanism gives the company a different starting point from selling a replacement watch: make an additional sensor fit an existing object. The engineering proposition is about attachment as well as measurement. Comfort and everyday usefulness will still matter to adoption. A device can earn admiration for how it stays in place and still need to justify occupying that place. The wrist is small commercial real estate.
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