Apple's New EarPods to Come With Heart Rate, Blood Pressure Sensors

Move over smartphones if you are interested in fitness trackers on the go. Here come headphones that can monitor your heart rate and blood pressure.

What else, it can automatically alert doctors if a dangerously high reading is taken.

If we believe Secret, an anonymous gossip app popular in Silicon Valley, Apple is set to launch EarPods that are also expected to contain a tiny tracking device so they can tell the user where they are if lost. Here are the Secret posts that first mentioned this device (via MacRumors):Apple's headphones could monitor the pulse of runners and automatically track their health and performance.

According to a patent by Apple, MacRumors adds, the fitness monitoring system is built in a set of headphones.

The embedded activity sensor can pick up temperature, perspiration and heart rate data, among other metrics.