FDA approves first medical accessory for the Apple Watch—an EKG sensor

Enlarge (credit: YouTube, AliveCor) Plenty of studies boast about the medical possibilities of the Apple Watch, but Apple’s wearable is a consumer device, not a medical one. However, the FDA just announced the approval of the first medical Apple Watch accessory, AliveCor’s KardiaBand, which uses the wearable’s heart rate technology and an attached sensor to […]