The vivoactive HR blends the look and general shape of the company’s fitness bands with the technology found inside Garmin’s high-end smartwatches like the fenix Chronos.
Sence, a wearable band with electrical contacts, susses out your emotion by measuring the electrical pulses of your heart. The company behind it claims it's the most "accurate" of its kind on the market.
A new Kickstarter campaign has started for a pair of smart glasses called Vue. But what makes these different from the likes of Google Glass? The fact that they look like everyday glasses.
Costumes are the spirit of a fun and scary Halloween party! Are you panicking that you haven’t picked your Halloween costume yet? Do not fear, WT | Wearable Technologies are here to rescue with some last minute ideas.
No need to waste time, Digital Dudz can suggest various ways to create the weirdest, coolest and creepiest costume at the party by using your phone and a free app. It doesn’t matter if you want to dress up like a monster, vampire, wizard or a clown, you are still really unique with Morphsuits.
A lot of people do last-minute costumes. Here is a suggestion to create a very unique costume that uses electronics. It is not so easy to make such an electronic Demon outfit, however, if you are the type of person who is very interested in playing with electronics, why not try to generate an incredible effect on Halloween using a set of LEDs and a voice changer to create a spooky demon face whose animations respond to the sound of the wearer’s voice.
This adult LED stickman costume is also a brilliant idea for your Halloween. It is by far the brightest stick figure costume on the market which means it’s also the most visible on those dark streets. The costume are made up of anywhere from 150 to 190 super bright LEDs that will literally light the path in front of you.
If you are looking to make your friends spill their Bloody Mary all over themselves at your Halloween party, we definitely have some ideas for you to turn your sweet home into a haunted house…It’s not wearable devices, however, it can spice up your halloween party.
These crawling Zombies are good for creeping up out of the darkness on people who are hanging out on your lawn
How about this grabbing monster hand in the bowl? It will, for sure, bring a new level to your trick and treat game.
There's a new anti-theft product on the market. Meet Bobby, a sleek travel pack that promises to be anti-cut and anti-shock, which means that anything you put into this backpack will be there to stay.
Samsung has two new smartwatches for 2016: The Gear S3 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier. Here's everything you need to know about them, including our in-depth first look at the watches, and how to pre-order one.
In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of everything. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of the top 10 tech stories from this week.
Your morning jog helps burn calories but someday soon it may generate energy as well. A new smart fabric developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology gathers energy from movement and sunlight and stores it in the fabric’s fibers.
For the 7th consecutive year WT | Wearable Technologies will be presenting the latest innovations and developments in the wearables market at MEDICA 2016. The show attracts more than 130,000 visitors and over 4,800 exhibitors. With more than 40 exhibitors from 15 different countries the WT | Wearable Technologies Show is as international and comprehensive as never before. This is the last article in our exhibitor presenting series, in which we would like to introduce the category of first-aiders and enabling tech/WT Ecosystem.
.Wearables for first-aiders
The company Spintower is a competence and solution center in the industrial and service-oriented environment. Their products and solutions are based on the needs of the leading companies in the industry and of course service & maintenance companies. They provide lean solutions which use the latest technologies including data encryption with know-how like D.A.R.V.I.N. It is the only portable professional video-assisted communication system which is ready for immediate operation without installation efforts and enables easy connection without the need of PC-knowledge.
Evena’s Dual Modality imaging products deliver informatics and truly wearable technology right at the bedside and point of care. Their revolutionary technology improves IV access success rates by incorporating Multispectral Light and apps based ultrasound onto a comfortable stylish head mounted see through display. Their Smart Glasses unit is battery-powered, offering the ultimate in portability and ease of use, with plenty of power for long shifts. All Evena products are appropriate for pre-hospital care, hospitals, outpatient surgery centers and wherever quick and accurate IV access is required.
Dysti Communications delivers know how, commitment and innovation in the field of wireless communication. Customized solutions, tailored products and holistic technology concepts represent their core business. Their customers benefit from the highest level of individualized service. Disty reacts quickly and flexibly to customer wishes. Skilled, creative and committed staff and the quality attribute “Made in Germany” are their recipe for success. On MEDICA 2016 the will be presenting their special emergency system called distyguard.
Enabling Tech / WT Ecosystem
Jenax has been continuously developing innovative products such as ultrafine wire, conductive yarns and cloths. In 2015, it introduced an advanced form of lithium ion battery, J.Flex as an acknowledgement of technological innovation. J.Flex is a revolutionary flexible lithium ion battery developed by Jenax. It can be bent, folded and even scrunched like paper. J.Flex is a perfect power solution for wearable devices as it meets the needs of devices with various forms and capacity. Jenax presents the new concept battery that can boost product’s creative design.
VARTA Microbattery is one of the world’s leading battery manufacturers. They develop and produce batteries for all major electrochemical systems and cell geometries. As a global system supplier, we are in a position to fulfill our customers’ requirements all over the world. VARTA’s Hydrogen gas generating cells contain many outstanding characteristics made in Germany. For displacement of any kind of liquids, gels, pastes and granules or for analytics or sensing with ultrapure H2, they are the right choice. VARTA worked up the industry’s first rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery in a coin cell form factor to offer the energy capacity required by small wireless consumer devices.
EBV Elektronik is the leading specialist in European semiconductor distribution. EBV maintains its successful strategy of personal commitment to customers and excellent services. With the EBVchips Program, EBV, together with its customers, defines and develops new semiconductor products. Targeted customers in selected growth markets will be supported by the Vertical Sales Segments. Warehouse operations, complete logistics solutions and value-added services such as programming, taping & reeling and laser marking are fulfilled by Avnet Logistics, EBV’s logistical backbone and Europe’s largest service centre.
Quanta Computer is a global leader in mobile computing revolution. It now continues to impact the transformation into cloud computing with the mission to enable more disruptive services and businesses with cloud-based solutions: Cloud solutions, connectivity, consisting of client. Quanta’s BU12 is committed to enhancing the quality of human life, developed the healthcare solution “QOCA” (Quanta Omni Cloud cAre). From hospital to home, all IoHT and healthcare cloud computing solutions support for big data applications and analysis, provide early warning signs, and can be used as an important indicator of healthcare management.
Developed by researchers at Stanford University, the Wolverine is a mobile wearable haptic device intended to simulate the effect of grasping rigid objects in virtual or augmented reality.
Your wearable is getting a major face-lift now that fashion houses like Emporio Armani are embracing the smartwatch trend. Fossil Group has introduced more than 40 new devices sporting the well-known brand names of some giants in the fashion world
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have come up with a smartwatch interface that detects various hand gestures made by the user. Oh, and it can recognize when you touch a smart device, too.
With its new X3 Wireless Sport Headphones, Jaybird has made the design sleeker and smaller, adding new features while keeping the same sound and style the company’s previous models were known for.
At long last, Apple is set to introduce a major revision of its Mac line – with the MacBook Pro taking the lead. Rumors lead us to expect an innovative OLED function bar, support for USB Type-C, and an update to the latest Intel 7th-Gen Core processors.
Only 10 days to go until submissions to the 2017 IoT/M2M Innovation World Cup are closed. Make sure you don’t miss out on the chance to win over $160,000 worth of prizes, including free co-working spaces and exclusive coaching sessions with Kickstarter. Finalists will also gain international exposure for their innovation by presenting live on stage during the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona next March! Register your idea for FREE at http://ift.tt/1rOjmc7.
Check out some of the previous IoT/M2M finalists:
Submission deadline is November 11th, 11:59pm EST, so be quick and get your innovation off to a flying start!
Fighting special diseases like asthma, epilepsy or diabetes with wearable technology is made possible by our co-exhibitors at MEDICA-Show 2016. Some of our exhibitors from 15 different countries offer monitoring solutions designed for special diseases, which will be presented at WT | Wearable Technologies Show at MEDICA 2016. Here are some of the most interesting products.
Wear Health provides a unique solution to sustain the overloaded health care system. Their passion is to maximize global health, enabling machines to think and come up with smart solutions. The platform PHA addressed people suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Renal Insufficiency and was based on multi-parametric sensor data processing. Through sensor data from wearables, CHRONIOUS Intelligence detects any sign of abnormal health and generates alerts. The collected data is notified to the healthcare providers by a dedicated and secure web platform.
Empatica develops wearable devices with clinical quality sensors and a super passionate team from diverse engineering fields, such as sensor design, electrical, DSP, data science, biomedical, and software development. They design and develop the world’s smallest and most accurate wearable devices for medical research of human behaviour in daily life. E4 is used in 30 countries around the world and its clients are the most respected hospitals, universities, and companies that use it for advanced research of human behaviour. The E4 provides the most sophisticated way to monitor autonomic nervous system disruption and heart rate variability, using a set of 5 sensors.
Vivalnk is a platform for wearable devices, apps, clouds and data services. Founded in 2014, Vivalnk is a Silicon Valley Telehealth start-up. Their mission is to help people gain more insight into human health and well-being by providing data and information through our technology that would otherwise be hard to achieve. With eSkin™ technology, they created a platform for wearables, apps, and data services for continuous vital monitoring. At MEDICA-Show 2016 they will be displaying their product Fever Scout that is a soft, wearable, stick on thermometer that continuously updates parents/caretakers of their child/patient’s temperature.
112 Motion offers monitoring solutions, both the hardware, via our partners, and the software. Their focus is on patients with chronic diseases, such as epilepsy, and vulnerable people, such as ‘elderly’ people. Early on, their focus has been the Internet of Things and they have the expertise to add additional software to IoT devices. Using state-of-the-art technologies such as distributed databases, parallel processing and in-memory transactional data sources, we’re able to process and distill huge volumes of data, applying complex rules and workflows, turning data into actionable information.
Health Care Originals, Inc. (HCO) is an upstate New York start-up commercializing patented University of Rochester technology. HCO develops products for the management of chronic respiratory diseases. HCO’s first product, ADAMM, with its three-part solution comprising of a wearable, smartphone app and web portal, will benefit the 300 million people globally who have asthma. ADAMM provides Intelligent Asthma ManagementTM —automating management, increasing adherence and identifying precursor symptoms much earlier – giving caregivers peace of mind and improving asthmatics’ quality of life.
Here you can find some ideas from the previous years and our confirmed co-exhibitors 2016. Next time we would like to show you wearable solutions specially designed for first-aiders.
There’s no shortage of fitness trackers and sports watches by any means, but that does not prevent TomTom from having another shot at its popular Spark line with the Spark 3.
According to Rackspace, wearables can increase workplace satisfaction 3.5% and productivity an astounding 8.5%. In fact, 48% of American adults see direct workplace benefits from using wearable technology. If you are looking for wearables that can improve your construction workers’ level of work satisfaction and overall productivity, here are our suggestions.
DAQRI Smart Helmet The DAQRI Smart Helmet is a perfect choice for you. It lays out work instructions right on their visor, so you can see exactly what needs to be done in the context of your visible workspace. The helmet also supports a 360 navigation camera with HD video recording, photography, 3D mapping. It provides the potential for data mining, compliance optimization, and maintaining construction records is limitless. It helps workers connect the importance of their current task to the overall job.
Redpoint Safety Vests The Redpoint Safety Vests are must-have piece of construction gears. The GPS integrated on safety vests allow to help workers at their specific geo-targeted location. Moreover, employees carrying the Redpoint badges are instantly alerted when entering pre-defined danger zones on jobsites. Furthermore, actuators can be triggered to slow or deactivate heavy equipment when badges enter within a specific radius. With employees that are constantly on the move, managers can capture location data to understand potential bottlenecks, issues, or inefficient and optimize time management to drive down production costs.
XOEye Smart Glasses
Managers can now monitor their workforce to ensure they’re being productive with XOEye Smart Glasses. These smart glasses are equipped with a camera wired to the internet. Thus, construction professionals can effectively communicate back and forth to accomplish a task. Additionally, the glasses can also be used to scan in data like bar codes.
Myo Myo can bring many benefits to construction workers. It is a handy wristband. Myo reads users’ arms gestures to turn your hand into controller for a slew of different devices. In conjunction with smart glasses like Epson, Google Glass to take pictures, communicate with co-workers, and mark off task items. This kind of gesture control makes perfect sense for construction workers who are constantly on the go and can’t afford the time to remove gloves or drop equipment in order to operate other computing devices.
Bionic Exoskeleton Suits
Last but not least, the world’s first bionic suit is created to aid construction workers in lifting heavy loads and reduce the risk of injuries from muscle strain. There is no battery required because the suit is entirely analog. Along with this new suit fatigue from heavy tools and injuries from poor lifting techniques, back injuries could very well become a thing of the past.
There are many wearable devices that bring more advantages to construction workers by focussing on innovating existing gear. Were there wearable options that we missed? Don’t hesitate to share with WT | Wearable Technologies construction wearable devices that you particularly enjoy.
Intel has partnered with the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund (CVFF) and challenged 10 burgeoning designers to integrate Intel Curie chips into an article of clothing in an inspirational way.
Xiaomi has launched its second virtual reality headset, the Mi VR. This time it's works more like Samsung's Gear VR than Google Cardboard, but has a design that's closer to Sony's PlayStation VR headset.
Smartwatch sales have fallen through the floor, according to the latest data from IDC. The research firm said Q3 figures show a year-on-year decline of a whopping 51.6 percent, though Garmin saw its share leap by more than 18 percent.
The future of wearables could be miniature on-body robots that crawl all over your body to create instant makeshift displays. Or so a delegation of MIT and Stanford researchers think, at least.
The event will also feature Speakable CEO Jordan Hewson and Zipline founder Keller Rinaudo.
While the smartphone revolution continues, the mobile industry is rapidly evolving to include a host of new devices, from drones to virtual reality headsets to wearables.
That broadening of the mobile landscape will be the focus of a Nov. 10 event, An Evening with Code Mobile, which will feature an interview with Clay Bavor, the head of virtual reality at Google and the man behind the company’s just-introduced Daydream View headset.
But Google’s vision for Daydream goes beyond a single headset and envisions Android at the center of a broad array of phones and headsets that will be made by Google and an array of other phone makers.
Also sitting in the red chairs will be Keller Rinaudo, CEO of drone medicine delivery firm Zipline, and Jordan Hewson, CEO of Speakable (and daughter of U2 frontman Bono).
Hewson, meanwhile, started Speakable as a way for people to engage in social action directly from articles on their mobile devices via a signature Action Button. Its publisher partners include Vice, The Huffington Post and The Guardian.
And, of course, there will be plenty of time for cocktails and conversation before and after the formal program.
The event takes place at Ericsson’s campus in Santa Clara, Calif. Space is extremely limited, so if you want to attend, be sure to sign up right away.
How Wearables will support Architecture, Real Estate and the development of Building Infrastructure
At first glance wearables and the real estate industry are miles apart from one another. Look again and you will see that new collaboration trends and standards are bringing these two worlds together faster than you might think. BIM (Building Information Modeling) meets WT is a big trend that hasn’t been on the radar of tech leaders until now. The software, engineering and real estate business are some of the most innovative industries and are already investing heavily in the combination of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) solutions to visualize their 3D infrastructure models.
Upcoming innovations by Microsoft HoloLens, HTC Vive, Google and Facebook, companies like Autodesk, Trimble, Topcon and Nemetschek Group are building significant groundwork for an amazing digitalization trend in real estate, without there being any previous connection to wearables. The Building Information Modeling method will not only be beneficial for big engineering firms with thousands of employees, but also for those with small teams of 5 to 10 engineers.
What is BIM? We had the chance to speak with Dr. Josef Kauer, President of the BIM World Organization, to get further insights.
Could you please tell us what the purpose of BIM is? BIM captures the whole lifecycle of real estate, an industrial building or the infrastructure around it – from the scratch to the maintenance, and over the next decade. Before anyone starts to work in the real environment, the whole project is captured and designed in 3D, showing all of the details. That means every cable, every element, and even the energy consumption is captured by a collaborative database. The database is then able to play out all of the features into a 3D model for an amazing visualization with details that have never before been captured virtually.
What do you think is the benefit and the impact of wearable devices on the industry? Some years from now, imagine an electrical engineer in a building that was designed and built via the BIM standard. He is able to see all of the cables in the walls or any other required infrastructural information via AR glasses, like the Microsoft HoloLens. This is a huge benefit and will save a large amount of money where the maintenance of buildings is concerned.
Besides augmented reality, where else do you see wearables providing additional benefits? To answer that question, we will have to go a bit deeper into the topic of infrastructure. Indoor positioning or active light animation for the simulation of retail situations, or sensor-driven energy saving etc. are all applications, which will be enabled by such an entirely digitalized building.
Many thanks for your thoughts on this topic. We are looking forward to seeing all of those amazing technologies and innovations at the first BIM World tradeshow in Munich at end of November. Don’t forget to mark this on your calendar. You will see groundbreaking innovations, from Visualization with HoloLens or HTC Vive to the 3D printing of components in the building process. www.bim-world.de
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The Nike model of the Apple Watch has a release date -- October 28. It's nearly identical to the Apple Watch Series 2, with a few handy features. Here's everything you need to know.
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
In a month, America walked an additional 144 billion steps, a new Stanford/Microsoft study says.
Pokémon Go’s creators want the hit mobile game to get people out of the house and exploring their neighborhoods. A new study confirms that’s really happening.
In “Influence of Pokémon Go on Physical Activity,” researchers from Microsoft Research and Stanford University studied, over the course of a month, how many steps were recorded by the Microsoft Bands — wearable activity trackers — belonging to Pokémon Go fans. The most engaged fans of the game walked 25 percent more than they did before Pokémon Go’s release.
“We find that Pokémon Go increased activity all across the studied population, largely independent of prior activity level, age, weight status or gender,” the study says. “These results are encouraging since they suggest that any positive effects due to Pokémon Go are available even to sedentary, obese and older users. Effectively reaching these users with physical activity interventions is critical for public health.”
How the researchers separated fans from normies is pretty interesting in its own right. They connected nearly 32,000 Microsoft Band owners’ steps with their Bing search queries, isolating the players from non-players based on the words they searched for.
So, someone Bing-ing only “pokemon go” or a phrase like “pokemon go death san francisco” may not be a player, but the study rationalizes that someone searching for “pokemon go eevee evolution” is trying to better understand how to play the game.
All told, the study estimates that Pokémon Go players across the U.S. walked an additional 144 billion steps in the game’s first month in the wild. It says that if those players were to keep up the same level of increased activity over a longer period of time, they could add nearly three billion years, collectively, to their lifespans.
For more Pokémon Go, check out Kara Swisher’s Recode Decode interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke:
Tired of getting battered and bruised while playing basketball? Blindsave claims it has developed the world's first protective equipment that conforms to the body and is light enough to wear while shooting hoops.
In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of everything. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of the top 10 tech stories from this week.
A team of researchers have created a smart wearable temporary tattoo, capable of sending information to your smartphone about your possible level of inebriation. It could even hail a ride for you if you're too drunk.
If youre going to talk to yourself, you might as well remember what you're saying. A new wearable wants to help you do just that. Meet the Senstone, a piece of jewelry that combines form and function.
Battery life still tops the polls for smartphone concerns. If it’s bugging you, then maybe it’s time to snag yourself a portable charger. Come on in, put your feet up, and allow us to show you round the wonderful world of external chargers.
The MEDICA show attracts more than 130,000 visitors and over 4,800 exhibitors every year. And in 2016, with nearly 40 exhibitors from 15 different countries the WT | Wearable Technologies Show is as international and comprehensive as never before. Our co-exhibitors cover a wide range of medicine topics. Today we would like to introduce you to the most interesting wearables for women and pain treatment.
Women
Livia is a new pain management device made for women. It tunes into the wavelength frequency of your menstrual pain and blocks the pain from registering in your body. It’s safe, proven, and well, pretty amazing. Livia is the off switch for your menstrual cramps and a drug-free solution for menstrual pain. With one single touch, the tiny device closes the “pain gates” by stimulating the nerves and blocking the pain from passing to the brain. No more pain, no more pills.
Beijing iKangtai Technology aims to empower female reproductive health with recently developed Internet of Things and Big Data Technology. Their leading product is called Shecare Fertility Tracker, which is a smart basal body temperature thermometer enhanced with Bluetooth Connection with smart phones. It can identify a woman’s fertile days based on Fertility Awareness Methods, and help the user get better knowledge and control of her fertility.
Color Seven is specialized to develop and manufacture medical devices with new concepts to treat and prevent the diseases that hard to be treated by medicine and surgery. They developed the World’s first “Skin Adhesive Color Light Therapy” technology and its result is the World’s first “Dysmenorrhea Treatment” medical device. Their main product Women Stress Free is Low Level Light Therapy medical device for Dysmenorrhea. It will help for women’s life who suffered dysmenorrhea and PMS.
Raiing Medical’s technology provides continuous and remote body temperature monitoring solution to both consumer and clinical markets. Its goal is to create an ecosystem based on the open platform of hardware and software, and to collaborate with health IT innovators to integrate its technology into solutions for providers, payers, pharmaceutics and consumers. Raiing is the member enterprise of Microsoft Ventures as well as Harvard Innovation Lab.
Carin is a product of the design-tech start-up LifeSense Group that started as a spin-off of an independent R&D center Holst Center/Imec in the Netherlands. In cooperation with health professionals, Carin was tested by over 100 women with urine loss. Their opinions guiding developments such as the size and shape of the sensor unit as well as the location for wearing it; we’ve created something so small that you forget you are wearing it.
Pain treatment
Evomed is committed to providing the Australian healthcare sector with new and innovative medical solutions from around the world. Their vein illumination technology and innovative non-contact thermometers are now used by hundreds of facilities across Australia. On MEDICA they will present their product PAINmate, a completely wire free, light and portable TENS device that provides fast, targeted relief. It is no bigger than the size of a hand and fits comfortably under the clothes. It is ideal for back, shoulder, neck, hip and knee pain.
Based in Taiwan, Hivox Biotek produces and market patent medical and healthcare products to improve consumers’ quality of living. HIVOX’s products originated from the concept of ‘Bioinformatics”, that is, by incorporating life sciences with electronic technology, all our products can detect and analyze many biological properties, enabling users to perform self-testing and self-treatment at home. Their latest products are Snore Stopper, Dreamate for sleeping management and pennypad for pain management. Their products all come with the highest quality certificates.
Here you can find some impressions from the previous years and our confirmed co-exhibitors 2016. In the next article we would like to introduce you to some interesting wearable solutions to treat special diseases.
The company plans to offer a package of channels for $25 to $40 a month.
Google has signed up CBS for Unplugged, the YouTube web TV service that Bloomberg surfaced back in May, and it's closing in on deals with 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and Disney. Google is looking to offer a "skinny bundle" of channels for $25 to $40 a month. — [Joe Flint and Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal]
Elon Musk announced that all Teslas will now be built with all the hardware needed to be fully self-driving, and the additional autonomous features will be enabled over time with software updates. Meanwhile, Atieva plans to unveil its Tesla rival to select people today, ahead of a full launch in December. — [Johana Bhuiyan / Recode]
T-Mobile will pay $48 million to settle an FCC complaint that it misled customers about its "unlimited" data plan by not revealing that it was throttling connections for heavy users. Most of the money will go back to eligible customers via discounts or free data. — [Russell Brandom / The Verge]
In a note to Facebook employees, Mark Zuckerberg defended Peter Thiel's presence on the board, regardless of his $1.25 million donation to Donald Trump. Supporting the goal of diversity, he said, means supporting diverse political opinions. — [Casey Newton / The Verge]
In the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, BuzzFeed video boss Ze Frank talks about coming up with the formula that made Tasty's recipe videos more popular than Beyoncé on Facebook. — [Eric Johnson / Recode]
Picking a new smartwatch can be daunting, but fortunately not every smartwatch requires a hefty down payment. At $80, the Pebble Time Smartwatch is not only $70 off, but also one of the better options available if you're tired of Apple and Android.
WristWhirl is a smart user interface which lets smartwatch wearers perform common touchscreen gestures by using their watch-wearing wrist as a joystick. One day, all smartwatches could work like this.
They may one day assemble into a screen on your arm.
Wearables generally stay in place, like on your wrist or clipped under clothes, but they won’t always be so stationary.
At a conference in Tokyo on Monday, researchers from MIT and Stanford shared new miniature on-body robots they’ve developed, called Rovables. The tiny robots crawl vertically on unmodified clothing, meaning there’s no need to wear a special shirt to have them drive on you.
The robots are held in place and able to scale garments with the help of magnetic gripping wheels that sit on either side of the fabric. Using sensors and artificial intelligence, the mini-rovers are partially autonomous. The researchers describe a scenario where the on-body robot crawls into your pocket when it’s not needed.
What are they for?
The researchers propose a number of possible use cases: A fleet of the robots could assemble on a wearer’s arm to create a display to watch video on the subway or tap a person on the shoulder when there’s new email. Or the wearable robots might roll up your sleeve or group into a safety light on your back when you’re riding a bicycle.
For the rovers to work well, they need to be able to navigate in 3-D space. The researchers have a model for how it might work, but have yet to build a micro-controller with enough processing power to handle the complex algorithms required for that level of path-planning.
The clothing-clinging robots have onboard batteries that, at the moment, will stay charged for 45 minutes at full capacity before needing more power. But the researchers say that if the robots aren’t moving all the time, the battery life should extend for hours longer. And they’ve designed the Rovables to charge wirelessly.
While Rovables are only a lab-based project at the moment, they do signal a future in which robots may become so ubiquitous they’re crawling all over us. But for now, even those who do buy wearable tech often end up leaving it in the drawer.
The Moov HR, a fitness tracker in the form of a headband, tracks your heart rate with incredible precision. It's available in two configurations, the Moov Sweat headband and the Moov Sweat swim cap, and begins shipping in early 2017.
With nearly 40 exhibitors from 15 different countries the WT | Wearable Technologies Show at MEDICA is as international and comprehensive as never before. For the 7th consecutive year now WT | Wearable Technologies will be presenting the latest innovations and developments in the wearables market. Today we would like to introduce you to the most interesting wearable solutions for monitoring.
Qardio was founded to transform the healthcare industry with simpler, smarter and effective solutions for patients, doctors and healthcare providers. Qardio is a award-winning healthcare company that combines a suite of elegant, clinically-validated devices with powerful data analytics, providing healthcare professionals with valuable insights into patient heart health. They provide different products like QardioBase, a wireless smart scale and body analyzer, QardioArm, a validated wireless blood pressure that fits seamlessly into daily life as well as QardioCore and QardioMD.
AiQ Smart Clothing Inc. merges electronics with textiles to create fashionable, functional and comfortable solutions to meet human’s everyday needs. AiQ plays a crucial role within the Smart Clothing supply-chain and offers a complete and vertical integration of functional and fashionable technologies by combining and installing multiple key components Beyond sports & fitness, AiQ has continuously strengthened its manufacturing and integration capabilities to bring wearable technologies into home & health care that offers a comfortable medium for both patients and physicians.
Biovotion AG is a digital health company in the field of sophisticated, medical-grade and wearable health monitoring solutions. Biovotion is introducing its vital sign monitoring platform that allows for 24/7 monitoring at a quality on par with hospital-based systems and with the convenience and ease-of-use of a consumer product. The platform incorporates the latest physiological sensing and communication technology and state-of-the-art cyber security and privacy standards. The platform connects hospital-based and home-based care, allowing for a seamless monitoring of post-intervention and chronically ill patients.
Rooti Labs Limited focuses on creating exciting yet practical new wearable technology. They brought a network of connected objects and cloud services to life by a clear mission: to actively care for consumers – their physical and mental wellbeing, homes and more. W/Me2 has different functions to achieve diverse results for different people. W/Me2 monitors heart rates during sports to let everyone understand their exercising efficiency. Elderly people can use W/Me2 to measure their HRV in the morning and evening. Analysis of the ANS age and self-explanatory diagrams will provide users with their up-to- date health conditions.
CSEM is a research and development center specializing in microtechnology, nanotechnology, microelectronics, system engineering, photovoltaics and communications technologies. he Swiss company develops technology platforms and integrate sand combine technologies into workable systems. CSEM presents this year its novel OBPM – Optical Blood Pressure Monitor technology. The patented OBPM algorithm allows to process optical PPG signals to extract beat-to-beat estimates of blood pressure.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is one of the leading research and technology companies in Europe. They help to develop new technologies and service concepts in the areas of digital health, wearable technologies and diagnostics – supporting their growth with top-level research and science-based results. VTT’s disposable beauty patch uses microampere current to enhance absorption of skin care products. They also developed an ultra-elastic IoT platform for wearable electronics applications. The wireless FlexNode sensor devices are suited for direct skin placement as well as clothing integration.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits performs contract research and development for industry and public authorities. Fraunhofer IIS researchers develop microelectronic systems and devices along with the required integrated circuits and software. Established in 1985, the Erlangen-based Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in its current configuration ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning headcount and revenues. The business field “Medical Technologies” contains various focal areas like Medical Image Processing, Medical Communication and Sensor Systems and Telematics in health care.
MEDISANA is one of the leading healthcare specialists to operate in the home health care market and work continuously to develop, manufacture and market healthcare products for the end user – so that these products can help ever more people to monitor their own state of health independently and conscientiously, to treat themselves without risk and to practice beauty care professionally. MEDISANA International documents our boundless activities in product development and marketing. The German company provides products for mobile health, sport, wellness, therapy and many more.
Lumio Labs is developing a lightweight cell phone case that reads blood pressure and heart rate vitals and provides continuous monitoring, called AccuRate. It is a cell phone case which monitors the heart rate anywhere and anytime and provides quick and easy measurement of blood pressure. The case is designed to be the most convenient and accurate blood pressure monitoring tool on the market to help people stay in tune with their health and track early warning signs and long-term progress of hypertension.
Here you can find some impressions from the previous years and our confirmed co-exhibitors 2016. Next time we would like to introduce you to our MEDICA-exhibitors in the category women and pain treatment.
Honor, the smartphone brand known for high quality devices with low price tags, has announced the Honor S1, a fitness-orientated smartwatch that will cost around $100 when it goes on sale.
Those who don’t mind a big, beautiful hunk of performance tracking tech on their wrist won’t find another watch that does what the fenix 3 HR does and looks so good doing it.
If you have an Apple Watch, you'll know how easy it is to take off the strap it came with, so why not buy yourself another one? There are so many to choose from, so we've gathered together the best ones we've seen so far.
Micro 3D printer company M3D has created a pair of mini basket earrings, which promise to catch Apple's futuristic AirPod earbuds when they fall out of your ears. Here is how you can get your hands on them.
Open-space offices may be great for space allocation and communication, but noise is a problem. Orosound's Tilde selectively controls ambient office sound. Directional control lets you speak with someone while blocking sounds.
Wearable cameras can help the legally blind read and identify faces, a new study suggests. Using a camera with character and facial recognition, study participants more than tripled their test scores.
The Sport Pulse Wireless get a “Special Edition” moniker as Jabra rectifies the original model’s lackluster audio performance while adding fitness extras, resulting in one of the most well-rounded Bluetooth earbuds available.
Combining digital alerts and monitoring, Misfit's Phase smartwatch looks like a classic timepiece but keeps you informed and in control. It's paired with a smartphone the Phase receives phone, text, and activity alerts.
GPS tracking should now be as accurate as it can be on the Fitbit Charge 2, after the manufacturer released a new patch. Fitbit has pledged to continue releasing bug fixes and feature updates for its new wearables in the future.
In most of our daily activities the energy for muscle work mainly comes from oxidation of glucose and lipids in muscle fibers. Optoelectronic devices driven by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) can play a substantial role in visualizing oxidative metabolism in muscles during rest and exercise: Continuously emitted light of discrete wavelengths between 500 (visible) and 900 nm (near-infrared) penetrates the subcutaneous tissue, underlying vascular beds and muscle fibers. On its way, the light gets partially absorbed and scattered back to a detector. The main signals are the results of the O2 saturations of hemoglobin (Hb) in the vascular bed (small vessels, arterioles and veins).
Special algorithms can derive THI (Tissue Hemoglobin Index) and SmO2 (Muscle Oxygen Saturation) from the absorbance of the light data signals. THI is a trend parameter that highly correlates with the total blood volume. SmO2 (not to be mixed up with SpO2 which is the oxygenation level of the main arterial blood) is the fraction of oxygenated Hb in total Hb within the muscle tissue.
Indication of NIRS in sports science
Measurements of the parameters SmO2, THI, PR, Respiratory Rate (RR) and HRV can be obtained by the sophisticated VIS/ NIRS technology non-invasively, in real-time, wirelessly and without any limitation of the motion path either in field or laboratory environments. Moreover, this technology allows to be applied in everyday training situations yielding the possibility to display the current muscle state. In terms of performance diagnostics, VIS/NIRS systems can be used to underscore the results of lactate diagnostics and cardiopulmonary exercise tests. The area of application ranges from endurance diagnostics, rehabilitation and athletic sports to covering questions in training sciences like load tolerance and the ability to recover from a lack of oxygen. The latency of THI and SmO2 after induced load impacts is very short compared to the reaction of blood lactate levels. Early studies already showed strong correlations between lactate thresholds and decreasing saturation levels. This indication is also found for pH- and ventilatory thresholds concerning muscle oxygen saturation levels.
Current state of research and practical application
Compared to other wearable systems using continuous wave NIRS technology, the new system OXY DR1, manufactured by OXY4 GmbH/Germany, serves with several technical enhancements. The team of OXY4 GmbH invites all research institutes of sports science, sports medicine and training science to take part in the theoretical and practical development of this new technique. Starting in the first quarter of 2017, we offer you our service including the new OXY DR1 system in order to introduce you to the NIRS technology. Please contact us directly for a cooperation or visit us at MEDICA 2016 in Düsseldorf (WT Booth in Hall 15 Medica Sports Conference, CCD South).
Looking for your first fitness tracker, or an upgrade to the one you're already wearing? There are plenty of the wrist-worn gadgets available, so here's our pick of the best ones available right now.
Livall's new road and mountain helmets have a more serious look about them, plus some added tech like a heart rate monitor. The shapes match modern trends, doing away with the cool-looking but not aerodynamic rear portion of the previous model.
Most Bluetooth speakers are at least somewhat portable, but the new Polk Boom Bit takes that concept even further by clipping to your clothing and offering a built-in USB plug for cable-free charging.
Meanwhile, Germany has asked Tesla to stop using the term "Autopilot" for its driver-assistance system in its advertising because it might give drivers the idea that they don't have to pay attention to the road. — [Reuters]
Intel reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday, and the results may offer some insight into the growth of cloud computing services. Intel is counting on increased demand for its server chips in data centers as the PC market continues to shrink. — [Wall Street Journal]
On the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, actor Ashton Kutcher talks about the investments he's made in consumer tech companies, as well as the ones he's passed on — like Snapchat. — [Recode]
Saving your manhood against the sedentary lifestyle, work related stress, accelerated ageing, stopping snoring for a healthy sleep or biopsy for the prostate. Nowadays, we have plenty of devices specially developed and designed for men. Let WT | Wearable Technologies introduce you to some interesting wearable devices for men´s health.
Prostate/Pelvic Coil
ScanMed was born of the need for superior quality products and service for the resonance imaging industry. When the quality and integrity of an image can have life-changing implications, the image truly becomes everything. With that in mind, ScanMed offers the world’s first non-invasive, wearable, and highly accurate Prostate/Pelvic MRI Coil, making them an innovation leader in terms of offering viable diagnostic solutions to the masses. Prostate/Pelvic Coil is a wearable, stain-resistant and fluid-proof coil designed for visualizing the prostate and reproductive organs while also allowing for biopsy. Its flexible material conforms to various body shapes, allowing for a snug, yet comfortable fit. This coil is designed to be used with or without a biopsy probe. ScanMed’s solution-based MRI coils are multi-functional and bring more coverage and wide-spread clinical application with a higher signal-to-noise ratio, solidifying the rank of frontrunner in the MRI coil industry.
VylyV Smart Shorts
VylyV is a lifestyle altering smart training short to peak the bedroom performance and guard the wellness of your manhood against the sedentary lifestyle, work related stress and accelerated ageing. Pelvic floor, known as the ‘love muscle’, is a key factor affecting your bedroom performance. It is also closely related to prostate and urinary health, guarding against signs of ageing such as incontinence and erectile dysfunction. You can use smart sensing as your private coach and provide guidance for pelvic floor training and progressively level up your bedroom performance. You can also include pelvic floor into your daily workout plan to power the core of muscles and maintain prostate und urinary health. VylyV claims the shorts will “peak the sexual performance by pelvic floor training and guard the manhood wellness against the sedentary lifestyle.”
Snore Circle
Snore circle is an affordable and worthwhile product that fosters snore-less sleep all night long. This ingenious wearable relies on sound technologies to decipher requisite information. It then intervenes physically through micro-vibration as well as micro sounds through a range of 54 levels. Simply place Snore Circle on either of your ears and power it on. As long as it is turned on, it will automatically enter its preset working mode, ensuring you get the best sleep you’ve had in a long time. By tightening the throat muscles which consequently expands the airway, snoring will become a thing of the past for you. When your snoring stops the wearable device will revert to its dormant state automatically. Ultimately, this will stop any form of snoring and ensure that the user gets the best night’s sleep. All the data gathered by Snore Circle will be sent to its companion app for further analysis and display.
As you see the men´s health is not neglected by wearable technology. We still have some interesting products specially designed for men apart from usual snore stoppers. Let´s see what comes up next.
The best offense is a good defense. And now, this principle is being applied to sports clothing by way of a new kind of wearable known from Ziel initially designed to help baseball pitchers.
Researchers are creating wearable devices that mimic human muscles.
Swiss roboticists are working on a new type of robotic exoskeleton. But it’s not the kind of hulking metal with heavy joinery that may initially come to mind.
Researchers at the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne instead made robots that are soft, like muscle tissue. Their goal is to make biomedical devices that stretch and bend to move more naturally.
The soft robots are made of elastic materials, like silicon and rubber that are molded into small tubes and pumped with air. The tubes balloon and bend in two directions like worms as the air pressure changes. The movement is remarkably lifelike.
The researchers are collaborating with physical therapists to build a back-support belt with clusters of the tiny actuators that help restore motor sensitivity for stroke victims.
They’ve created a model to predict how the small, air-filled actuators deform, depending on their size, shape and material. And since the robots aren’t rigid, the researchers say the technology should be able to tolerate pressure without getting damaged, Science Daily reported.
Right now the air pump is too big to fit directly on the belt, but they hope to eventually make it small enough to wear.
Not fully versed on the nuances of your dog's language? This smart harness might be the perfect translator by converting its heart beat patterns into emotions humans can understand.
A team of engineers have reinvented the orthopedic cast for the 21st century, using some algorithms and smart materials. We still don't think we want to break our arm to test it, but we're weirdly tempted.
The Nike model of the Apple Watch has a release date -- October 28. It's nearly identical to the Apple Watch Series 2, with a few handy features. Here's everything you need to know.
Stop glancing at your wrist in the middle of your circuit -- your fitness tracker probably isn't telling you what you need to know. At least, that's what a new study from Cleveland Clinic’s Heart and Vascular Institute suggests.
Google is reportedly making two Android Wear smartwatches, and both devices will be integrated with Google Assistant -- the search giant's artificially intelligent bot. The larger of the two devices will have LTE, GPS, and a heart-rate monitor.
Looking for some ways to spruce up that new Android smartwatch of yours? Here are our favorite apps to download and use with any Android smartwatch, including those for taking notes, browsing the web, and making mobile payments.
Smartwatches are getting better, but they still have a few drawbacks, such as their bulk. Samsung hopes to change that with a new chip that offers faster processing and compatibility for LTE, but in a smaller package.
Apple's AirPods are arriving at the end of the month. If you've got an iPhone 7, you may have noticed the lack of a headphone jack -- these should help. Here's everything you need to know.
HP, in partnership with Movado, is launching a new series of connected smartwatches with fashion licensing by Tommy Hilfiger, Coach, Hugo Boss, and more. They offer notifications and basic fitness tracking, and last about a week per charge.
The Apple Watch 2 may not have been that much of a change, but if these new patents are anything to go by, the third-gen device will be drastically different from the Apple Watch Series 1 and Series 2.
Today took place the WT | Wearable Technologies Session in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The session which explored the new technologies and products within the wearable market was an addition to the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference that took place yesterday. Many of the participants that were yesterday also gathered again to keep learning and getting insights from the wearable leaders of the market.
Microsoft cancelled fitness tracker sequel, the Band 3, has appeared online in several unconfirmed images. They purport to show the Band 3, with a new clasp design, as well a waterproofing and RFID support.
Today took place the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference in ASIA. The Hong Kong Science Park was full of innovations and inspiring speeches about the future of wearables and new technologies. The exhibition area was also full of new products and exciting new developments in the wearable market! Here are a few images from the conference and its exhibitors.
LifeSense Group on stage
Lumo Bodytech
PulseOn
Airline Design
Paul Pugh
SmartCap Technologies
DNX
DNX
JINS MEME
Evena Medical
Hong Kong Science Technology Park
Covestro
Flextrapower
LifeSense Group
Accumold
AiQ Smart Clothing
Osram Opto Semiconductor
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Arvato
Health Promotion Board, Singapore
Li&Fung
But there is more! If you missed the Conference but are in Hong Kong already you can attend the WT | Session that will take place on October 13th at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Here the full agenda. Registration is free of charge and on-site. Here more information and details.