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Researchers at Google have demonstrated how your regular earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) can be transformed into a heart rate monitor, without adding any extra hardware or sensors..
Google also shared the research paper on the technology, which is titled APG: Audioplethysmography for Cardiac Monitoring in Hearables...
The researchers are confident that APG is the new way of learning about health using technology and opens up new chances for affordable health checks...
The researchers added that the technology can be added to existing earbuds with a simple software update..
Having said that, you are probably sitting there reading this article and hoping that somewhere the piece reads that the technology will soon be coming to the Pixel earbuds, but unfortunately, as plausible as it may sound, research like this must always be taken with a pinch of salt..
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