If you need a new reason to work harder at living a healthier life, this new app for iPhones is quite ideal for you.
Have you ever been curious about your mortality and how many
years you have left to live on earth? Well, you need not wonder anymore
because you'll finally have your answer in this new (creepy) app by
Apple.
Deadline is an iOS app that uses a short quiz and the new Healthkit functionality in iOS 8 to create a timer that counts down towards your death.
Although it's just a generic algorithm that forecasts your death, there's still something quite scary about having a clock in your widget screen, just below the weather forecast, candidly informing you that you have a couple of years to live.
Of course, Deadline can't promise accuracy, but developer Alaric Cole, who also created the Fitly app for tracking your steps, said he used algorithms similar to the ones insurance companies use to generate the estimate.
If you make any changes to your lifestyle and measurements, you can recalculate the figure at anytime. So, we suppose in some twisted way, it might provide some good incentive to live a slightly healthier life: since the timer uses Healthkit data, which is constantly monitoring how active you are (and things like your blood pressure, if you have the right add-on gadgets), you can make that timer go backwards if you climb enough stairs.
As per Apple's HealthKit guidelines, Deadline doesn't store your personal data, so you don't have to worry about hackers digging up the timing of your impending doom.
Sources: Gizmodo, The Next Web.
Deadline is an iOS app that uses a short quiz and the new Healthkit functionality in iOS 8 to create a timer that counts down towards your death.
Although it's just a generic algorithm that forecasts your death, there's still something quite scary about having a clock in your widget screen, just below the weather forecast, candidly informing you that you have a couple of years to live.
Of course, Deadline can't promise accuracy, but developer Alaric Cole, who also created the Fitly app for tracking your steps, said he used algorithms similar to the ones insurance companies use to generate the estimate.
If you make any changes to your lifestyle and measurements, you can recalculate the figure at anytime. So, we suppose in some twisted way, it might provide some good incentive to live a slightly healthier life: since the timer uses Healthkit data, which is constantly monitoring how active you are (and things like your blood pressure, if you have the right add-on gadgets), you can make that timer go backwards if you climb enough stairs.
As per Apple's HealthKit guidelines, Deadline doesn't store your personal data, so you don't have to worry about hackers digging up the timing of your impending doom.
Sources: Gizmodo, The Next Web.
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