Tech Review: Apple Watch Series 8

Apple Watch Series 8

We expect our smart watches to come with a smorgasbord of life-logging. Sure enough, the latest Apple Watch does everything from monitoring sleep (showing how much time you’ve spent in REM, Core or Deep sleep) to tracking fitness and temperature. It also does the basics – like allowing you to call friends, check maps and (duh!) the time.

But the minutiae of the Watch’s abilities bring it to the next level. Sensors built into the Watch will detect if you’re in a serious car crash, and automatically contact emergency services, and it can provide menstrual data, logging possible cycle deviations via wrist temperature predictions.

Read the full tech roundup in the May issue of Hot Press, out now.