Wearables

Mobility is empowering. That’s why Toyota is working to develop a wearable device for the blind and visually impaired that will help them do more with greater freedom, independence and confidence. Called Project BLAID, it reflects the company’s commitment to enrich lives by advancing the freedom of mobility for all.

A Canadian-based manufacturer of smart clothing and intelligent software for health and performance, has selected the Bluetooth Smart-based EZ-BLE PRoC module from Cypress Semiconductor for use in its Hexoskin Smart biometric tracking shirts.

K-Glass, smart glasses reinforced with AR that were first developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2014, with the second version released in 2015, is back with an even stronger model. The latest version, which KAIST researchers are calling K-Glass 3, allows users to text a message or type in key words for Internet surfing by offering a virtual keyboard for text and even one for a piano.

Virtual reality is already something people can touch and feel with the Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus. Gear VR is 'the best mobile VR experience in the world' because it combines the VR software, built by Facebook’s Oculus team, with world-class mobile hardware, built by Samsung.

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have built a wearable robotic limb that allows drummers to play with three arms. The two-foot long "smart arm" can be attached to a musician's shoulder. It responds to human gestures and the music it hears. When the drummer moves to play the high hat cymbal, for example, the robotic arm maneuvers to play the ride cymbal. When the drummer switches to the snare, the mechanical arm shifts to the tom.

Kii and Haltian have announced Snowfox, a portable tracker and communication device to help parents with their highest priority - their child's safety. This next-gen tracking solution consists of a durable and portable device with voice calling, GPS tracking and an app – all backed by Kii's IoT platform. There are several kid trackers on the market, but Snowfox stands out with an embedded SIM card and out-of-the-box operation.

If your wearable fitness tracker is constantly misreporting your heart rate or claiming that you’re burning a huge amount of fat, your natural reaction may be that your device is faulty. However, before making an irate phone call to the manufacturer to demand a replacement, there’s another possibility to be considered - you may be pregnant!

You strap to your wrist Samsung's latest smartwatch, and your identity is quickly verified by your veins. This technology could be available sooner than you might think. Samsung has filed a patent with the USPTO for a method by which a smartwatch user's veins are used to authenticate the identity of the person wearing the device. The watch would first take an initial reading of the vein, and use it to compare to future images.

Research from the University of South Australia is set to transform the common contact lens into the next generation of consumer electronics. Scientists from UniSA’s Future Industries Institute (FII) have successfully completed ‘proof of concept’ research on a polymer thin-film coating that conducts electricity on a contact lens, with the potential to build miniature electrical circuits that are safe to ...

The ORSTO CONTEMPORARY 100 range is the first of four collections of smartwatch developed by ORSTO, with the following three scheduled for release in the coming months. Thousands of hours of R&D, design testing, real world user testing and production quality control has been channelled into every piece.