Wearables

Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, "DFKI") and Hitachi announced the joint development of AI technology for human activity recognition of workers using wearable devices. The AI technology performs real-time recognition of workers' activities by integrating technology in eye-tracking glasses to recognise gazed objects with technology in armband devices to recognise actio...

A partnership has been announced between Movado and Google to launch Movado Connect, a smartwatch collection powered by Android Wear 2.0, Google's newly redesigned platform. Movado Connect is one of the first watches designed specifically for Android Wear 2.0 and will launch fall of 2017 introducing five men's styles with a starting price of $495 available in the US, the Caribbean, Canada and the UK. The collection will be unveiled at Baselworld ...

Altium Designer is playing a key role for a developer of wearable electronics for the medical industry, by embracing flexible design and reducing manufacturing risk.

At last week's Mobile World Conference 2017 in Barcelona, the Huawei Watch 2 was officially introduced to the world. Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu announced the company’s newest smartwatch following the introduction of the Huawei P10 smartphone. The announcements took place Sunday evening and were broadcast live around the world. The Watch 2 will supplant the original Huawei Watch, which was introduced at the same event...

  How can MEMS pressure sensors help you keep fit? Well, they are now commonly being integrated into wearable activity monitors that help consumers track their daily activities and thereby monitor their fitness levels.

European scientists have employed new photonics technology in order to develop a new augmented reality surgical visor in a bid to improve accuracy of interventions, showing anaesthetic and medical data while superimposing a patient’s x-ray in perfect unison with their body, meaning surgeons never having to look away during an operation and surgery times reduced by over 20 minutes for every three hours.

Digital, personal and wearable medical devices are the future of health care. Now, EU scientists are in search of novel manufacturing processes that could bring them to the mass market. The EU-funded project FABIMED (Fabrication and functionalisation of biomedical devices) has developed mass manufacturing processes for the next generation of medical devices. With the latest moulding technology, devices can be customised in bulk batches, driv...

These days you can track just about anything with the aid of a wearable device — your steps, your calories burned, and even how soundly you sleep at night. So, it makes sense that you should also be able to measure what your penis gets up to during sex. That's precisely what the i.Con aims to achieve. The i.Con (manufactured by British Condoms) is a wearable condom ring which uses a nano-chip and sensors to measure and remember a ...

TÜV SÜD Product Service has warned that the wearable device market is facing a compliance dilemma, trying to apply current test standards and methodologies to this rapidly evolving technology, leaving manufacturers, retailers and end-users vulnerable to potential risks. Manufacturers and retailers could be compromising both the quality and safety of their products because they rely on off-the-shelf electronic components, which have...

Researchers at Seoul National University, Graphene Square and Interojo have shown that graphene-coated contact lenses could protect eyes from electromagnetic radiation and dehydration and be used in various healthcare and wearable technologies. The researchers began by synthesising a graphene layer on a copper foil using CVD. They then transferred the carbon sheet onto the surface of a contact lens with the help of a polymer layer after etch...