Your next Samsung Galaxy Watch could ‘dramatically reduce’ your chances of injury thanks to this one clever feature

• New research suggests smartwatches could predict fainting episodes
• This would give you time to minimize the danger of a fall
• The research was commissioned by Samsung

Most of the time, fainting episodes come out of the blue, leaving a split second for someone to support you before you start hurtling towards the ground. But what if your smartwatch could alert you to the likelihood that a faint is imminent before it actually happens? It sounds like something out of science fiction, but it could one day come to fruition.

That’s the idea behind a clinical research paper commissioned by Samsung, which concludes that it might be possible for a wearable device to warn you that you’re at risk of fainting minutes before it happens. That would potentially give you time to get to a more comfortable place — such as on a sofa — so that the ...