Wearables

Bioengineers and cognitive scientists have developed the first portable, 64-channel wearable brain activity monitoring system that’s comparable to state-of-the-art equipment found in research laboratories. The system is a better fit for real-world applications because it is equipped with dry EEG sensors that are easier to apply than wet sensors, while still providing high-density brain activity data.

With virtual reality becoming bigger and bigger every week and having a bigger demand now days, PlayStation have announced its own VR. Meet PlayStation VR, the upcoming virtual reality platform designed to deliver exciting and innovative gaming experiences to PlayStation.

The results of a collaboration between Cloudtag and imec on accurate frictionless wearable health solutions were revealed at the CES show in Las Vegas this week. Cloudtag Track, a new wearable fitness tracker that was launched at the show, combines fitness and health monitoring with design to advance both fitness wearables as well as wearables in the care, cure and prevention cycle by providing immediate access to accurate medical data and person...

Expanding its line up of ApP Lite application processors for wearable devices and the IoT, Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the TZ1201XBG. This latest addition to the TZ1000 series is based on a high performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F RISC processor capable of operating at frequencies of up to 120MHz.

STMicroelectronics has announced that its sense, control and communication technologies are being utilised by PIQ in its lightweight and low-power sports wearable device for performance measurement and coaching. By tracking hand and wrist movement in multiple axes for accurate 3D analysis, the PIQ multi-sport sensor helps improve performance and technique. The 44x39x5mm device, weighing just 10g, is worn easily in a wristband, clipped to a golf g...

Today’s wearables market is crowded, competitive and successful product design is complex, with manufacturers having to make trade-offs between a product’s diverse elements in order to meet customer needs. Greg Fyke, Director of Marketing, IoT Wireless products, Silicon Labs explains how.

  Complementing the company's GNSS platform portfolio by addressing power sensitive usage, u-blox has released the u-blox 8 GPS/GLONASS receiver platform. The existing u-blox M8 platform will continue to serve applications where navigation performance and highest accuracy are paramount.

Smartphones have become as much a part of our daily lives as food and water, maybe more. We rely on these thin handheld supercomputers to keep information flowing from our fingertips at the speed of business and to stay connected to the bustling world around us. The problem is that these sleek and beautiful devices are constantly evolving to become larger, thinner and immensely harder to hold.

Scientists in Seoul, South Korea, have made further advancements in the wearables sector with the development of an ultra-thin stretchable device that can be laminated onto human skin like a patch and can be used for continuous heart rate monitoring.

A new partnership between Device Solutions and FokusLabs has led to the launch of the RE-vibe - the world’s first anti-distraction wearables for children and adults, including those with autism and ADHD. Using a proprietary algorithm developed by Rich Brancaccio, founder and CEO of FokusLabs, the RE-vibe optimally reminds users to stay on task (or to get back on task) using different levels of vibrations on the wrist.