Wearables

ams AG has announced the launch of a technology which enables noise-cancelling headsets with a four-pole 3.5mm jack to operate for the first time without a dedicated battery power supply. The new Accessory Communications Interface (ACI) invented by ams uses the microphone (MIC) wire – one of four wires in a standard 3.5mm audio cable – to carry power and bidirectional data with a rate of up to 16 Mbit/sec, as well as digital audi...

The optoelectronics portfolio at Vishay Intertechnology has been expanded with the introduction of a new high speed silicon PIN photodiode with enhanced sensitivity for visible light. Offered in a compact 5 mm by 4 mm top-view, surface-mount package with a low 0.9 mm profile, the Vishay Semiconductors VEMD5080X01 offers fast switching times and low capacitance for precise signal detection in wearable devices and medical, industrial, and automotiv...

A portable fitness device developer, Striiv has used NI AWR software to design a new integrated, high-performance antenna. The new high-performance antenna provides better battery life and Bluetooth wireless performance for its next-generation Fusion 2 and Fusion Bio 2 wearable tracker devices.

  For children who are deaf quite often communicating and interacting can be extremely difficult, however PhD Arts and Computational Technologies candidate Hadeel Ayoub has designed and created a glove that will translate sign language. By doing this, the words can be read off of a screen on the glove, or the glove can speak the words out loud.

There's a reason why farmers wear protective gear when applying organophosphate pesticides. The substances are very effective at getting rid of unwanted bugs, but they can also make people sick. Related compounds—organophosphate nerve agents—can be used as deadly weapons. Now researchers have developed a fast way to detect the presence of such compounds in the field using a disposable "lab-on-a-glove." The report on the glove appears ...

Initially when wearable technology first was introduced, you would see it mainly in fitness bands and smartwatches, however as technology develops in this fast pace world we are starting to see wearable tech expand beyond this. With the popularity of the Internet of Things, smart homes and connected devices, developers are beginning to create wearable tech in ways you never could have imagined before.

When you think of the word wearable, a lot of cool VR/AR headsets, sports and fitness wear springs to mind. At this year’s Wearable Technology Show RealWear were showcasing its latest wearable- the RealWear HMT-1 a new kind of industrial wearable. Designed for skilled technicians and engineers in field service, equipment inspection, maintenance and complex manufacturing assembly, RealWear describes the headset as ‘the birth of a ...

Some day, your smartphone might completely conform to your wrist, and when it does, it might be covered in pure gold, thanks to researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Writing in the journal Science, the Missouri S&T researchers say they have developed a way to “grow” thin layers of gold on single crystal wafers of silicon, remove the gold foils, and use them as substrates on which to grow other ele...

Imagine reproducing the contents of your smartphone via Bluetooth directly onto the lens of your glasses. You don’t have to imagine this anymore, as Italian company GlassUp has made this reality. Fashion and technology can work really well together and through mixing the two the company produced the consumer product UNO smart glasses.

  The hype around wearable technology is all but over. Whilst new wearable technology products have generated billions of dollars in new revenue in just a few years, the hype was too much to live up to for many at the core of the sector.