Your smartwatch doesn’t just count steps. It can help a hearing-impaired person too, quietly turning a wrist-worn gadget into an assistive device.
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What Wearable Devices Can Actually Do
- Location Identification Wearable devices genuinely can identify a person’s location, using built-in GPS.
- Sleep Monitoring Wearable devices genuinely can monitor a person’s sleep, tracking movement and heart rate through the night.
- Assisting Hearing-Impaired Users Wearable devices genuinely can assist hearing-impaired people, for instance by converting sound into vibration or visual alerts.
- Correct Answer All three tasks are genuine. The correct answer is 1, 2 and 3.
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How Wearables Actually Track These Things
- GPS Chips for Location Many wearables embed a small GPS chip, letting them track a wearer’s route and location independently of a paired phone.
- Sensors for Sleep Sleep tracking uses accelerometers and heart-rate sensors to estimate sleep stages, from movement patterns and pulse changes.
- Haptic and Visual Alerts Devices for hearing-impaired users convert sounds like doorbells or alarms into vibration patterns or on-screen visual cues.
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UPSC CSP 2019 — What Wearable Devices Can Actually Do
- UPSC 2019 Wearable devices genuinely accomplish location identification, sleep monitoring, and assisting hearing-impaired people. See UPSC CSP 2019 GS Paper I, Q95. View this question.
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Why Wearables Keep Expanding Their Scope
- From Fitness to Healthcare Newer wearables track blood oxygen and detect irregular heart rhythms. This blurs the line between consumer fitness and medical monitoring.
- Battery Life Is the Real Constraint Adding more sensors demands more power, which is why wearable design keeps trading off features against battery life.
- Connects to Other PYQ Facts This same sensor-and-connectivity theme also underlies UPSC questions on the Internet of Things.
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