Google Glassis a prime example of the current evolution of wearable technology. Glass is a computer in the form of a pair of eyeglasses and includes an optical head-mounted display. In short, Glass does a lot of the things that your smartphone can do. For instance, you can use a voice...
This chapter aims to give the reader an overview of commercial smart clothes and wearable technology products. It will take a look at some of the important commercial and quirkier smart clothes products, from companies such as O’Neill, Burton, Adidas, Polar and Textronics, to name a few. ...
Wearable technology is more than an accessory Society Leisure R&D Wearables are the penultimate milestone of the technology revolution, and they open the door to a new personal universe. They track what you eat, monitor your heart rate, warn you when you are getting stressed, and make it eas...
Wearable 10. The All-Powerful Personal Computer An IBM computer terminal, used for official scoring on the PGA tour, is displayed in the press room of the 1994 Mercedes Championships in Carlsbad, California. Computers have changed a lot since then. Simon P. Barnett/Allsport/Getty Images ...
This chapter aims to give the reader an overview of commercial smart clothes and wearable technology products. It will take a look at some of the important commercial and quirkier smart clothes products, from companies such as O'Neill, Burton, Adidas, Polar and Textronics, to name a few. Th...
The 10 types of computers include personal computers, desktops, laptops, tablets, hand-held computers, servers, workstations, mainframes, wearable computers and supercomputers. What is a computer? A computer is any device that has a microprocessor that processes information. It has hardware, softw...
“This is definitely the most out-of-the-way wearable vibrator I’ve used,” our tester said. “I liked that it had just one button to turn it on, increase intensity, and turn it off. This made it very easy to change intensity levels during use.” ...
In more recent times, the development of wearable technologies for people living with chronic health conditions like diabetes, have made hundreds of thousands of people’s lives easier to manage. Yes, they were able to get along just fine before with the old resources they were offered, but th...
Examples of businesses innovative entrepreneurs can start: An app to make an existing process easier A new take on an existing business model An alcohol-free bar A new piece of wearable technology 6. The social entrepreneur Social entrepreneurship is focused on solving social problems and making th...
Health sensors in wearable technology, such as theSamsung Galaxy Watch's BioActive sensor, can already track a range of factors such as heart rate, breathing rate, and body composition. The data collected by sensors like these can be transmitted wirelessly to a smartphone where it can be analyz...