From AppleInsider quoting People magazine quoting a Long Island, NY, ABC affiliate:
On July 12, 25-year-old Brandon Schneider of Long Island visited the emergency room after suffering abdominal pain and a misdiagnosed kidney stone, reports People. Schneider asked to use the bathroom, where he lost consciousness and fell to the ground…
Luckily, Schneider was wearing an Apple Watch. The device’s fall detection feature recognized the event and alerted emergency services, as well as his father who was with him at the time. “My Apple Watch detected a hard fall, and I did not respond to the like haptic message that requires a response and 45 seconds,” Schneider said in an interview with a local ABC affiliate. Subsequent CT scans revealed a fractured skull and multiple hematomas that were growing in size. He underwent brain surgery and woke up four days later.
Though he doesn’t remember much about the incident or surrounding days, he is on the mend and credits his survival to Apple Watch and an active lifestyle.
Cue the video:
My take: There’s news you can use here. Schneider warned People’s readers that they must set their Watch’s emergency contacts to get its full benefits. Schneider’s father — sitting in the waiting room — was one of Brandon’s emergency contacts, which is why he got help so quickly. If he’d had to wait for 911 to respond, he might not have made it.
I think you can elaborate on that story a bit:-).
https://www.courant.com/features/home-garden/hc-gypsy-moth-cleanup-20170622-story.html
Whether that results in aid, help, notification or actually preventing major morbidity (further serious injury) or mortality (saving one’s life) depends on the situation. The skeptics can complain all they want, I’m glad the Apple Watch and thoughtful Apple ecosystem works as it’s supposed to and people benefit from that, unobtrusively yet reliably. Haters are gonna hate.
The Watch is a marvelous device that adapts and conforms behaviorally to who we are as individuals carrying out our routine activities-of-daily-living. Each day I look at the Watch and it is as if I see myself looking back at me. The Watch knows more who we are and what we do than does our iPhones. And yet, we never hear the privacy issue discussed surrounding the Watch.