Wearables
Smart vests have construction workers' safety at heart
Heat stress is a growing safety concern in the building industry and now an innovative smart vest has been developed to monitor the health of construction workers in real time. Developed at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, the vest uses sensors to measure a worker's body temperature and heart rate and sends the data wirelessly to a smartphone app, which instantly alerts users to any anomalies.
Smart clothing solutions presented at the Wearable Technology Show
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The latest in sports clothing with ‘smart’ garment range
MYZONE gave an exclusive world launch to a series of ‘smart’ sports garments at London’s Wearable Technology Show. MYZONE introduced a men’s compression top that integrates the company’s effort tracking technology to provide a convenient, stylish, precise and comfortable approach to wearable technology. This partners the sports bra from MYZONE with similar built-in technology.
Wearable modular device to facilitate walking rehabilitation
In collaboration with Suncall Corporation, and with support provided by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under the Center of Innovation (COI) Program, Professor Tadao Tsuboyama of the Graduate School of Medicine and his collaborators have recently succeeded in developing an "Attached Robotic Unit Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthothesis", a modular wearable walking assist device designed to aid the rehabilitation of people with walking difficulti...
Geo-contextual photo tagging with unmatched precision
Skyhook Wireless has been selected by San Francisco and Stockholm-based Narrative, the company that introduced the most wearable full HD camera featuring video and audio capabilities, to power geo-contextual photo capture on the Narrative Clip 2 camera. With the Skyhook integration, Narrative's consumers will now have access to improved location-based data and context with the moments and stories they capture and share wi...
Wristband detects and alerts for seizures
People with epilepsy suffer from recurrent, unprovoked seizures that can cause injury and even death from "sudden unexpected death in epilepsy" (SUDEP), a condition that occurs minutes after a seizure ends. Now Empatica, co-founded by MIT professor and wearables pioneer Rosalind Picard, has developed a medical-quality consumer wristband, called Embrace, that monitors stress signals to detect potentially deadly seizures and alert wearers and careg...
Wearable mobility device developed for the blind & visually impaired
Mobility is empowering. That’s why Toyota is working to develop a wearable device for the blind and visually impaired that will help them do more with greater freedom, independence and confidence. Called Project BLAID, it reflects the company’s commitment to enrich lives by advancing the freedom of mobility for all.
Biometric monitoring taking wearables to the next level
A Canadian-based manufacturer of smart clothing and intelligent software for health and performance, has selected the Bluetooth Smart-based EZ-BLE PRoC module from Cypress Semiconductor for use in its Hexoskin Smart biometric tracking shirts.
Smart glasses offer a keyboard to type text
K-Glass, smart glasses reinforced with AR that were first developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2014, with the second version released in 2015, is back with an even stronger model. The latest version, which KAIST researchers are calling K-Glass 3, allows users to text a message or type in key words for Internet surfing by offering a virtual keyboard for text and even one for a piano.
New steps towards the future of VR
Virtual reality is already something people can touch and feel with the Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus. Gear VR is 'the best mobile VR experience in the world' because it combines the VR software, built by Facebook’s Oculus team, with world-class mobile hardware, built by Samsung.