Wearables

Since the advent of biometric authentication, a myriad of devices have been introduced in an attempt to replace traditional cash and cards, including fingerprint and iris scanners. Now there is a new method available using heartbeats. The Nymi Band is a secure, wearable authenticator that increases convenience and security through continuous, biometrically authenticated, proximity-based access control.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an efficient algorithm that can interpret the wheezing of patients with breathing difficulties to give medical providers information about what’s happening in the lungs. The research is part of a larger, ongoing project to develop wearable smart medical sensors for monitoring, collecting and interpreting personal health data.

Despite the hype around wearable tech at the start of 2015, six months in to the year, mainstream adoption of wearable tech remains slow. Smartwatches, whilst widely available on the market, continue to be viewed as a smartphone peripheral, rather than a product in their own right. Meanwhile, Google’s high-profile Glass project has actually taken a step back, ending all sales of devices to the public.

TE Connectivity has announced that it has developed a proof of concept that allows traditional garment manufacturers to develop smart or connected textiles by easily integrating with the workspace and workflow used in traditional garment production. Through this process, garments produced can better survive the harsh conditions of normal wear, machine washing or dry cleaning.

  Underwear designed to protect male fertility against the EM radiation emitted by WiFi devices has been introduced by British scientist Joseph Perkins.

Try on any virtual reality headset and within a few minutes the sense of wonder might wear off and leave you with a headache. Computational imaging experts say that's because current virtual reality headsets don't simulate natural 3D images. Now, researchers in the Stanford Computational Imaging Group have created a prototype for a next-gen virtual reality headset that uses light-field technology to create a natural, comfortable 3D viewing e...

Whether you're tracking your steps, monitoring your health or sending photos from a smart watch, you want the battery life of your wearable device to last as long as possible. If the power necessary to transmit and receive information from a wearable to a computer, cellular or WiFi network were reduced, you could get a lot more mileage out of the technology you're wearing before having to recharge it.

Eric, the CEO of dot Incorporation had a blind classmate in University. While most of his classmates used an iPad, the blind classmate carried around large, bulky textbooks which took longer to process than an iPad. Although there were features in which blind people may use on the iPad, accessibility was limited.

  The world’s first wearable device designed to measure and monitor the vital signs of multiple trauma patients for emergency response in disasters and battlefield situations has been introduced by Cambridge Design Partnership.

A wearable device for runners that goes beyond measuring basic stats such as pace or speed to measuring each foot’s ground-contact time and heel-contact time has been developed by Kinematix. TUNE is the first in-shoe wearable that monitors both feet at the same time to retrieve these parameters.