Apple Inc. and Tesla Motors were allegedly teaming up to create a device that could predict heart attacks.

Given the tough competition Apple faces from its rival Google when it comes to technology beyond smartphones and tablets, the iPad maker is surely cramming and yearning to develop and produce a new and innovative device.

"Apple must increasingly rely on new products to reignite growth beyond the vision [of Steve Jobs]," said Bill Kreher, an analyst with Edward Jones Investments in St. Louis, to SF Gate. "They need the next big thing."

In order to create new products, Adrian Perica, Apple's executive in-charge of acquisitions, has reportedly met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Apple headquarters. Though the deal hasn't been disclosed yet, it looks like the two technology giants are up to something worth anticipating.

Considering their own specialties, many will surely think that their partnership would result in the large touch-screen on Tesla automobile's dashboard with Apple's logo.

However, what Apple has in mind is quite far from that one. The company, instead, is thinking of creating a device that can predict a heart attack through the sound that it makes as it passes through an artery. The development will be headed by Tomlinson Holman, a renowned audio engineer who invented 10.2 surround sound and THX.

To start the project, the company has hired doctors and lawyers who have experiences in lobbying the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A team led by Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president for operations, even met with FDA chief Margaret Hamburg and director of FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health Jeffrey Shuren to discuss "mobile medical applications."

Additionally, Apple has even requested for patents in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In one of the documents, it said that the company is developing a technology that could unlock a device through the identification of the owner's distinctive electrical signals from the heart.