How Wearable Tech Will Change Your Life

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Source: ComputerScienceZone.org

How Wearable Tech Will Change Your Life

With Google Glass, Apple’s Watch and FitBit-type products gaining popularity among consumers, it seems like every company is working on a piece of wearable technology. What can wearable tech do for you today, and what’s coming down the pike?

$53 billion

Projected market for wearable devices by 2019

Shipments of smart wearables by year (units)

2014: 27 million

2017: 116 million

Vision

View emails, calls and notifications

Turn-by-turn navigation

Internet access

Record video

Products and prototypes:

Google Glass

Innovega iOptik Contacts

Telepathy One

GlassUp

Hearing

Monitor vital signs

Play music

Products and prototypes:

Intel InvenSense earbuds

iriverOn

Apple (patent application)

Skin

Netatmo’s June bracelet monitors your daily sun exposure and makes recommendations about clothing and SPF protection.

Electrozyme’s disposable temporary tattoos would gauge electrolyte and hydration levels, muscle exertion and physical performance.

Sleep

Monitor sleep patterns

Detect signs of sleep apnea

Gentle alarm

Prototype:

NeuroOn (formerly Zizz)

Fitness

Movement tracking

Heart rate tracking

Skin temperature and perspiration monitoring

Tracking calories burned

Silent-wake alarm

Mobile phone compatible

Products:

Fitbit

Nike+ FuelBand SE

Jawbone UP24

Basis Peak

Samsung Gear Fit

Clothing

Wearable Solar’s under-development products integrate solar panels, enabling the garments themselves to serve as charging stations.

Products on the market by Voltaic Systems include backpacks that come equipped with solar panels.

Fabric being developed at Purdue University (for helping make space-faring robots safer) could be used for “Back to the Future”-style automatic fitting clothing, as it uses pressure and friction to move itself.

FuelWear’s Flame Base Layer, a shirt still in development, would automatically adjust its temperature based on your body temperature.

Clean air

Hand Tree, a concept developed as part of an Electrolux contest, is a bracelet-style air purifier.

Feet

Taking fitness to the foot level, Sensoria’s Fitness Socks track activity and measure cadence, helping runners improve their form.

Behavior

Pavlok, a bracelet-style device, aims to help reinforce good behavior by delivering an electric shock when you do something you’re not supposed to do, like miss the gym too many times.

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