Wearable Technology and Wearable Devices: Everything You Need to Know

Everything You Need to Know Introduction to Wearable Technology What is Wearable Technology? What are Wearable Devices? The terms “wearable technology“, “wearable devices“, and “wearables” all refer to electronic technologies or computers that are incorporated into items of clothing and accessories which can comfortably be worn on the body. Generally, wearable technology will have some form of communications capability and will allow the wearer access to information in real time. While wearable technology tends to refer to items which can be put on and taken off with ease, there are more invasive versions of the concept as in the case of implanted devices such as micro-chips or even smart tattoos. The implications and uses of wearable technology are far reaching and can influence the fields of health and medicine, fitness, aging, disabilities, education, transportation, enterprise, finance, gaming and music. Updated: March 26, 2014 Cite this article: Tehrani, Kiana, and Andrew Michael.

Security an afterthought in connected home, wearable devices Based on an extensive review of publicly reported internet of things (IoT) device vulnerabilities, the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) today announced that all of the problems could have been easily avoided. "In this rush to bring connected devices to market, security and privacy is often being overlooked," Craig Spiezle, executive director and president of the OTA, said in a statement today. "If businesses do not make a systematic change, we risk seeing the weaponization of these devices and an erosion of consumer confidence impacting the IoT industry on a whole due to their security and privacy shortcomings." If only they had listened ... The OTA, a nonprofit group comprised of academics and representatives from the public and private sector, is dedicated to developing and advocating best practices and policy concerning security and privacy. [ Related: Connected medical device makers need to step up security ] Most glaring security flaws

Why Wearable Tech Will Be as Big as the Smartphone “How do you spell Mantle?” Starner asks. He types the name on a one-handed keyboard (a “Twiddler” that used combinations of 12 buttons to span the whole range of characters) and peers into his eye-screen. “I’m getting a lot of hits on that,” he says, a touch of nervousness in his voice. “So did he,” Safer retorts. The year was 1997, and the task took Starner far longer than he’d hoped. Thirteen years later Starner came to work for the company that finally perfected Internet searching. That dovetails exactly with Starner’s vision of how wearables can revolutionize the way we access technology in our everyday lives. Wearables reduce that friction. But reducing the time between intention and action goes much further than that. For all its portability, the smartphone still has a distracting screen that pulls us away from whatever else we’re doing—in the car, in business meetings, at restaurants. The problem with Google Glass is not that it’s bad industrial design. Telepathy One Motorola HC1