Wearables

To control machines remotely by the simple movement of a hand. It will be possible in a natural and economical way thanks to Goldfinger, an innovative prototype of human-machine interface designed and built in collaboration between the Politecnico di Torino and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston under the direction of Dr. Giorgio De Pasquale from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the Italian University.

The Angel Sensor M1 device from Angel Sensor is now available with support for the Lua programming language. Angel Sensor claims that this makes it the first tracker device capable of executing code independently and eliminating the need for wearables to communicate with mobile devices.

The wearable revolution is here. Portable and wearable technology such as smartphones and smart watches are changing everything we all thought we knew about technology. Including, it seems, the distinction between equipment designed for practitioners and devices used by consumers. From ultrasound scanners to glucose meters, there’s not a lot that your consumer technology can’t emulate. Here, Neil Oliver, technical marketing manager at...

Industrial design researchers at Brunel University London have solved two of the major challenges which prevent everyday items of clothing being turned into power sources for smartphones, tablets and other personal tech. Technology to produce supercapacitor thread capable of being made into cloth has been around for some time.

InventionShare’s new Circuit Seed family of inventions will allow for the design and development of more wearable technology product lines, the company’s CEO Greg Waite has announced.

According to the latest research from GfK, smart home technology is set to make a significantly greater impact on the lives of consumers than wearables. The study covered seven countries and asked consumers to choose which of 11 leading edge technologies (from 3D printing to augmented/virtual reality to Internet of Things) would have an impact on their lives in the next few years. (Respondents could choose as many technologies as they wished...

InvenSense has announced Coursa Sports, a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) fitness tracking platform for smartphone and smartwatch, health and fitness applications. The platform is designed to provide more accurate and always available speed, distance and route tracking and at least a three times improvement in relative elevation reporting for walking, hiking and running at up to 50% reduced power consumption. Coursa Sports is comprised o...

imec and UEST, have announced that they have started the production of Zembro, a smart bracelet designed to enable the elderly to connect with their relatives immediately, anytime and anywhere. Zembro is the first commercial product from UEST. The initial set of Zembro Bracelets, which sold out immediately after the launch (April 2015), are being delivered since the beginning of November.

Wearables like smart watches could challenge smartphones as the main hub for digital lifestyles now that a new product-development ecosystem has been released from STMicroelectronics. More than half a billion wearable devices will be connected to the Internet by 2019: a potentially huge user base that could enjoy making convenient mobile payments with a secure device that is more natural to use than a card or smartphone.

BodyCap, a company specialising in miniaturised wireless monitoring devices, has tested its e-Celsius Performance connected pill for temperature monitoring on ten FC Nantes soccer players during two French League 1 games. Using e-Celsius Performance, the club was able to measure the effectiveness of recovery techniques such as ice treatment for players.