Apple wants to use your mattress as a body temperature sensor
Following its Beddit aquisition, Apple has been looking at ways to use its smart mattress technology coupled with temperature sensors to identify the start of menstrual cycles, and as a measure of general health.
It doesn’t look like the most comfortable sleeping position, but this illustration from the patent is meant to show that sensors can be unobtrustive
Ever since Apple acquired the Beddit sleep-tracking firm in 2017, it has been researching ways to improve that tracking. Alongside the sleep tracking in Apple Watch, Apple’s research concentrates on placing sensors in beds.
