Wearables

Uncompromising sound without wires: beyerdynamic has displayed the world’s first high-end Tesla headphones with Bluetooth transmission featuring the aptXTM HD standard in Berlin (hall 1.2, booth 204) from the 2nd to 7th September. This functional design study is the result of co-operation with Astell&Kern. It pushes the Korean manufacturer’s players to their limits and also makes Bluetooth interesting for more discerning listeners...

Users of public transport in Taiwan now have a new range of secured iPASS-ready wearables at hand: Infineon Technologies, one of the world’s largest suppliers of security chips, provides its unique Boosted NFC secure element solutions for wearables performing secured transactions such as transport ticketing and micropayment.

The SmartBond DA14680 and DA14681 Wearable-on-Chips from Dialog Semiconductor are now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. Part of the highly-integrated SmartBond system-on-chip (SoC) family of power-efficient Bluetooth low-energy solutions, Dialog’s DA14680 and DA14681 deliver the industry’s first state-of-the-art power management and RF technology single-chip wearable solutions for advanced Internet of Things (IoT) designs.

The ZenWatch 3, a stylish and customisable wearable device powered by Android Wear has been announced by ASUS. This precision watch serves as a smart assistant for Android and iOS devices, providing wearers with timely information at a glance and letting them get things done with a simple touch or voice command. ZenWatch 3 is also a full-featured and extremely accurate activity tracker that helps wearers keep their lives in balance and achieve fi...

Dataiku and Bioserenity, two European based companies, have partnered to create a wearable device which is aimed to improve the diagnosis of epilepsy. Dataiku, the maker of predictive analytics software, has created a data analysis application that has been combined with a wearable device developed by Bioserenity. The result monitors patients in real-time to help doctors effectively diagnose epilepsy.

At IFA 2016, Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, and Fossil Group announced that the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor is powering the Fossil Q Marshal and Fossil Q Wander smartwatches. With this announcement, Fossil becomes the first Fossil Group brand to ship smartwatches based on Qualcomm Technologies’ next gen Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor.

  Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a multi-modal sensing device that can track the fine-grained activities and behaviour of people with dementia -- and it could help in Army combat training, too.

  The tennis performance sensor that's making a racket. Qlipp, the 'ultimate tennis sensor' offers real time analysis, that enables you to track every detail from serve to match point. Qlipp is the gadget that tennis players will absolutely love.

  With the development of apps such as ‘Pokémon Go’, technology has started to encourage tech geeks to venture outdoors and be active. But not just for the gamer, there has also been a surge in technology for fitness freaks.

Hungarian company, L!Ber8 has created a wearable bracelet, the Tago Arc, which can change its appearance depending on the preferences of the user. The company develops energy harvesting solutions and creates wireless no-charge display technologies for wearables and small electronics devices.