Apple explores the idea of bringing Apple Watch-like health monitoring to your next MacBook Pro

(Pocket-lint) - Apple is exploring the anticipation of adding wellness tracking features to a future MacBook Pro oregon MacBook Air, according to a patent filing discovered this week. 

The abstract from the filing uses immoderate highly method verbiage, truthful we won't get into each that, however, the main gist of it would beryllium Apple transplanting the backside of an Apple Watch - the spot wherever each the bodily relation sensors prevarication - and integrating a akin mentation of it onto the wrist pad country of a aboriginal laptop made by the company. 

The patent includes a precise basal representation demonstrating what that diagnostic whitethorn successful information look like, which you tin spot above. 

While the anticipation of this benignant of exertion making its mode onto the upcoming 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros predicted to travel this autumn are each but nil, Apple's CEO Tim Cook did stress that the company's top publication to mankind would beryllium wellness and fittingness related, truthful possibly an adjacent greater propulsion into assemblage tracking is successful the cards for a acold disconnected MacBook revision implicit the adjacent coming years. 

Apple files a small implicit 1 1000 patents per year, and of people not each azygous diagnostic protected comes to airy connected a user facing product, however, the thought of Apple Watch wellness tracking coming to products too the Watch is an intriguing 1 nonetheless. 

For Pocket-lint's roundup regarding the upcoming Macbook Pro 14 and 16-inch monolithic redesign, tap close present to larn more. 

If you’d similar to work the afloat patent filing for yourself, click here. 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 9 September 2021.