PC Magazine - USA (2021-02)

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sleep, as well as your total time asleep, your time in bed, how long it takes you
to fall asleep, and disturbances throughout the night.


Overnight, it also tracks your respiratory rate (the number of breaths you take
per minute), resting heart rate (the number of times your heart beats per
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milliseconds between each heartbeat), and body temperature variations
(whether you’re running hotter or cooler compared with previous days and
weeks, and by how much).


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all other wearables. But a growing number of high-end smartwatches and
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readings. Body-temperature measurements are less common but are also
available on the Sense.


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lifestyle factors, and tracks deviations from your baseline. It might, for instance,
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temperature can, of course, signal that you’re coming down with something.

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