CONSUMER REPORTS: Wearable technology allows users to always be connected - October 26, 2014 The smartphone has integrated itself into our lives so thoroughly that many of us would feel naked leaving the house without it. Consumer Reports notes that a recent International Data Corp. survey of smartphone owners found that 79 percent keep their device with them for all but two of their waking hours. This near-obsessive need to stay connected is one of the drivers behind a new category of electronics, known collectively as wearables. One device seems to embody all of the potential of wearable electronics for both convenience and cyborglike strangeness. If Google’s soft launch of Glass was intended to warm the general public to a new product category, the plan may have backfired. Glass syncs via Bluetooth to a smartphone; it then uses that connection or Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet. Consumer Reports testers found that it took some time to learn the gestures, but eventually they became second nature.
Wearable technology Wearable technology, fashionable technology, wearable devices, tech togs, or fashion electronics are clothing and accessories incorporating computer and advanced electronic technologies. The designs often incorporate practical functions and features, but may also have a purely critical or aesthetic agenda.[1] History[edit] Wearable technology is related to both the field of ubiquitous computing and the history and development of wearable computers. The calculator watch, introduced in the 1980s, was one original piece of widespread worn electronics. Ilya Fridman designed a Bluetooth headset into a pair of earrings with a hidden microphone.[3][4] The Spy TIE includes a color video camera and USB Heating Gloves keep hands warm when plugged in.[3] Wearable technology has applications in monitoring and realtime feedback for athletes as well.[7] The decreasing cost of processing power and other components is encouraging widespread adoption and availability.[7] Prototypes[edit] See also[edit]
Top 5 wearable technology devices CAPE TOWN - At the forefront of technology is the race to create the most convenient and useful devices at one's fingertips. For the past few years, Apple, Samsung, Google and various tech companies have been competing with different forms of wearable technology. Eyewitness News takes a look at the top five types of devices that promises smart device technology and a fusion of fashion. With the launch of Google’s new interactive glasses, surfing the internet has become even more interesting. Google Glass displays information much like a smartphone and uses voice commands to communicate with the internet. A simple “Google glass take a picture” will instruct the ubiquitous computer to capture images. This savvy technology became available in the United States at a price of R16,626 on a consumer level, however, it has not yet became available to consumers in South Africa as yet. APPLE WATCH & i.amPULS The two most notable however, is the Apple Watch and i.amPULS by Will.I.Am.
Wearable Technology That Feels Like Skin Photo When it comes to the future of computing, there is one major known and a principal unknown. The known, with almost guaranteed certainty, is that the next era of computing will be wearables. The unknown, with commensurate guaranteed uncertainty, is what these wearables will be and where on your body they will live. Apple and Samsung, for example, are betting on the wrist; Google, the face. Their enthusiasm is on an emerging class of wearable computers that adhere to the skin like temporary tattoos, or attach to the body like an old-fashioned Band-Aid. Many of these technologies don’t look anything like today’s gadgets. While these wearables raise novel privacy concerns, their advocates say there are numerous benefits. MC10, a company based in Cambridge, Mass., is testing attachable computers that look like small rectangular stickers, about the size of a piece of gum, and can include wireless antennas, temperature and heart-rate sensors and a tiny battery. How would these gadgets work?
how were all going to be using wearable technology Wearable Technology, Soon In a Cabin Near You | NBAA2014 content from Aviation Week Wearable electronic devices are beginning to resemble a technology steamroller in the consumer market, and business aviation is already climbing aboard in an attempt to keep up. Honeywell Aerospace (Booth 2000) is developing its own variant of Google Glass with a hands-free device to make the job of the flight attendant more efficient by leveraging Honeywell’s existing Ovation Select cabin management technology. The device is now in prototype form and allows the flight attendant to manage virtually the entire cabin with just a few words here and there. In a video demonstration, Honeywell head of cabin services Nan Kramer is seen walking through the cabin and making adjustments by first activating the voice recognition system with “Okay glass,” followed by the command, “open window shades,” then “set monitors,” and “show flight times.” Also at NBAA 2014 is a demonstration of Flight Display Systems’ new ‘wrist watch style’ cabin control device (Booth 2008).
Nike and Apple working on ‘stylish’ new wearable technology | Technology Apple and Nike are working on new item of wearable technology that will have greater integration into existing gadgets, and is less obvious and more “stealth”, according to the Nike chief executive, Mark Parker. Nike has long been making wearable technology, originally partnering with Apple for its Nike+ running sensor range in 2006, which connected wirelessly to the iPod. Nike discontinued its FuelBand fitness-tracking bracelet in April, shutting down the team that made it, which saw two of its key engineers move to Apple to work on the Apple Watch. “I think it’s going to be a big part of the future, absolutely,” said Parker in an interview with Bloomberg TV. Parker reiterated that Nike had worked at length with Apple in the past, with Parker personally working with Apple founder Steve Jobs, and that having Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, on the board of Nike was a big advantage. “Technologically we can do things together that we couldn’t do independently,” Parker said.
Mercedes Pebble smartwatch Medical wearables, cleared and all FDA cleared wearable technology, medical devices We are 4 weeks ahead of the Medica fair in Düsseldorf, Germany. Medica is the world´s largest fair for medical and related health technology and features an impressive amount of 4,500 exhibitors and 130,000 visitors from 120 different countries. WT will represent the wearable technologies ecosystem at Medica in hall 15, at booth A23. Parallel to the WT show at the Medica fair many of the WT exhibitors will present their technologies at the Medicine & Sports conference on the 12th & 13th of November. The insights gained in the medical world when it comes to wearables often cross over to the sphere of health & fitness. Portable, wearable…invisible? As the technologies advances and portability of these devices increase, the patients´ demand for discretion and non-disruptive functionality has found a resonating voice with engineers and developers. Image courtesy: Teardown.com 1. Specs: Functionalities: What does it do for you? 2. 3. Specs:
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