Credit: Samsung Published May 7, 2026, 9:42 AM EDT Chandra Steele has been writing about tech for the entirety of her journalism career . She loves making tough topics easy to understand. Before joining Android Police, Chandra was senior features writer at PCMag where she did everything from interviewing Jeff Goldblum to explaining crypto. Sign in to your Android Police account One of the scariest things about fainting is that your body gives little warning before it happens and the fall that happens can result in injuries that are far more serious than the quick loss of consciousness itself. There may now be a way to predict when it will occur using a smartwatch. Samsung has put forth a joint clinical study with Korea’s Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital that the Galaxy Watch 6 , with an attached photoplethysmography sensor and running an AI algorithm, can detect when a person is going to faint with 84.6% accuracy up to five minutes before fainting.…