Future Apple Watches may scan your wrist

PanARMENIAN.Net - Apple was just granted three new patents for the Apple Watch, one of which involves taking an uncomfortably-close look at the skin on your wrist.

Two of the patents are pretty neat — they describe a self-adjusting watch band and a band that lights up when a notification comes in, TechCrunch reports. But the most bizarre of the three describes how the patch of wrist skin beneath the watch could be turned into a personal identifier — like a fingerprint scanner except, you know, on your wrist, Futurism says.

The existence of a patent doesn’t mean that this feature will ever actually be incorporated into the...