Wearables

NXP Semiconductors has announced that NXP's i.MX 7 series applications processor enables OrCam’s revolutionary wearable personal assistant product. Introduced at CES 2016, OrCam-MyMe, an open development platform for wearables with artificial intelligence capabilities, continuously processes visual and audio signals to create an 'augmented attention' experience that enables context-based applications.

A range of wearable tracker products have been introduced by MvBii Ventures that aim to provide a new alternative to fitness tracking, focusing more on the idea of balance not just activity. The z-Track and z-Zap include versions for iOS and Android.

Thanks to the Snapdragon Wear 2100, The Mission smartwatch uses 25 percent less power than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 400. The Mission operates on the Android Wear OS platform, which includes integration with Google Fit and allows users to control music and access maps and GPS, weather updates, commute conditions, and flight tracking, along with other features made possible by third-party apps.

The findings of a new report have shown the use of health and fitness apps in the UK has grown by 62%, in comparison to a 33% growth in general apps. The study commissioned by sports coach UK also shows that more than one in ten UK adults now own a wearable device, up from six percent in 2014 to 13% in 2015.

Heat stress is a growing safety concern in the building industry and now an innovative smart vest has been developed to monitor the health of construction workers in real time. Developed at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, the vest uses sensors to measure a worker's body temperature and heart rate and sends the data wirelessly to a smartphone app, which instantly alerts users to any anomalies.

AiQ Smart Clothing is where electronics merge with textiles to create fashionable, functional, comfortable solutions to meet people's everyday needs; whether it’s in sports & fitness, outdoor & leisure, home & leisure, home care & health care. AiQ Smart Clothing plays a crucial role within the Smart Clothing supply chain by offering a complete and vertical integration of functional and fashionable technologies.

MYZONE gave an exclusive world launch to a series of ‘smart’ sports garments at London’s Wearable Technology Show. MYZONE introduced a men’s compression top that integrates the company’s effort tracking technology to provide a convenient, stylish, precise and comfortable approach to wearable technology. This partners the sports bra from MYZONE with similar built-in technology.

In collaboration with Suncall Corporation, and with support provided by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under the Center of Innovation (COI) Program, Professor Tadao Tsuboyama of the Graduate School of Medicine and his collaborators have recently succeeded in developing an "Attached Robotic Unit Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthothesis", a modular wearable walking assist device designed to aid the rehabilitation of people with walking difficulti...

Skyhook Wireless has been selected by San Francisco and Stockholm-based Narrative, the company that introduced the most wearable full HD camera featuring video and audio capabilities, to power geo-contextual photo capture on the Narrative Clip 2 camera. With the Skyhook integration, Narrative's consumers will now have access to improved location-based data and context with the moments and stories they capture and share wi...

People with epilepsy suffer from recurrent, unprovoked seizures that can cause injury and even death from "sudden unexpected death in epilepsy" (SUDEP), a condition that occurs minutes after a seizure ends. Now Empatica, co-founded by MIT professor and wearables pioneer Rosalind Picard, has developed a medical-quality consumer wristband, called Embrace, that monitors stress signals to detect potentially deadly seizures and alert wearers and careg...