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The pulse is much much slower than a heartbeat. More like breathing.
by calebegg 16y ago
The pulse is much much slower than a heartbeat. More like breathing.
- DougBTX 16y agoYes, like breathing. http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/6658577.html http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/6658577.html The moral of this story: Apple pays more attention to details than gigaom.com.
- Samuel_Michon 16y agoAh yes, that's the patent I was looking for, upvotes all around :). I mistakenly googled for 'heartbeat' instead of 'breath', for which only the GigaOM article turned up. "The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breaths per minute, which is the rate that the sleep-indicator light fades in and out on most Apple laptops. Older models such as the Macintosh PowerBook, however, use a blinking LED indicator, with discrete pulses in one-second intervals. The other day, I noticed that my friend’s Dell laptop had a similar feature but with a shorter fade-in-fade-out period. Its rate was around 40 blinks per second, or the average respiratory rate for adults during strenuous exercise not very indicative of something in sleep-mode." http://floodmagazine.com/2010/10/14/apples-attention-to-detail/ http://floodmagazine.com/2010/10/14/apples-attention-to-deta...