"Overeating is a major contributor to obesity, yet most treatments overlook the unconscious habits that drive it," said corresponding author Nabil Alshurafa, PhD, associate professor of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and of computer engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering, who was the corresponding author of the new study published in npj Digital Medicine (part of the Nature portfolio of journals).
How Apple would use TouchID is still up in the air, though MacWorld provided some possible use cases, like a patent Apple secured for biometric systems within the watch. Rumors suggest Apple could add TouchID to the Apple Watch's side or the in-display sensor. This would be a welcome update, as it gets annoying regularly typing in my passcode when the watch is around my wrist all day. A quick and easy TouchID feature could make unlocking quicker and seamless.