Apple's Health app
We are more concerned about our health or focus on healthy eating and sporting. There are a lot of apps that are health related and help us with that. For example applications that help you with your diet, or apps that give you fitness advice. And of course apple has one too.
WHAT
If you have an iPhone you may already know this app. The Health app for Apple, this is an app where you can read information about health and fitness. It keeps track of the steps you have made that day, your heartbeat, sleep analysis, burned calories and many more. It's an all in one app, you could say.
How does it work ?
When you open the app, you have your dashboard. This gives you an overview of your day of over the whole week. You can choose which elements you want to see in your dashboard. If you only want to see the steps you take, you link that one to your dashboard, but you can also connect every element to the dashboard.
Medical ID
There is also a Medical ID in the app, where you can fill in your blood number and the numbers of people who to call by an emergency. The emergency button on your phone leads you to the app, so when you for example have a car crash en someone needs you data, they can easily find it with this button.
WHY
This application is an example for the Inline trend. Something happens offline, like our health and we keep it in track online with the app. Now a days we have apps for everything, some are more useful than others. You could say that we are app overloaded. Is this all to much or do we need this in our future technologized life?
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Sources
- http://www.iculture.nl/gids/apps-voor-healthkit-gezondheid-iphone/
- http://www.apple.com/ios/health/
Fig 1 - http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/01/the-easy-way-to-use-apples-ios-8-health-app-100563092-primary.idge.jpg
Fig 2 - http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/xlarge_wm_brw/public/field/image/2015/04/health-dashboard-iphone-6-hero.jpg?itok=iD7iQHPq
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb8Hq--VSPA