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A few months ago, Nike made every Back to the Future fan’s dream come true by finally releasing sneakers with fully-functional power laces. And now, just weeks before 2015 draws to a close, it looks like Marty’s self-drying jacket from BTTF2 could also become a reality. 
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While 2014 –with sales of almost 29 million wearables– was the year which saw the tipping point for these devices, in five years' time this market will have reached maturity with sales of over 173 million according to data from IDC.
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This morning at the Maker’s Faire in Rome a design team at Intel in Ireland once again found themselves at the heart of Intel’s march into the future.
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports someone loses a limb from diabetic complications every 20 seconds.
mohcine-GBM's curator insight,
October 7, 2015 11:04 AM
Des chaussettes intelligentes pour prévenir les ulcères aux pieds des patients diabétiques...
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Wearables in the Enterprise are Driving Improved Business Performance
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Google botched its wearable, Google Glass, and now the director of GoogleX labs is openly talking about it.
Richard Platt's curator insight,
March 21, 2015 4:29 PM
Astro Teller, Google’s director of its research arm, GoogleX, said the company made mistakes with Glass. They needed to work out its wearable’s battery and privacy issues, and address miscommunications about the state of the project.. Even when it was being sold to early testers for $1,500, was never close to being ready for official sale. It’s a prototype and still solidly in the experimental phase. Even though its executives and its PR people were repeatedly putting timeframes on an official Glass release.Teller said Google did one good thing it launched the project but it also did one thing wrong. - “The bad decision was that we allowed and sometimes even encouraged too much attention for the program,” he said. “Instead of people seeing the Explorer devices as learning devices, Glass began to be talked about as if it were a fully baked consumer product. The device was being judged and evaluated in a very different context than we intended.” - That tactic frustrated a lot of early adopters
Tom Bryon's curator insight,
March 25, 2015 3:35 AM
"Google had the sizzle, they just didn't have the steak". Technology will surely experience some form of metamorphosis, Google is pushing another form of wearable technology, possibly we could see this as the mainstream form of communication. It hasn't picked up the momentum it needs yet, but as its usability increases and new needs arise, that may change. "The device still has a good shot. If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.” 
QindredCam's curator insight,
April 1, 2015 3:25 PM
Privacy and battery life; these are two of the key challenges for wearable recording devices. |
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A Technology For Your Shoes That You Would Have never Imagined For: New York based startup Shiftwear sneakers can change color & pattern through mobile app
Ann Windham's curator insight,
December 7, 2015 10:04 AM
Next? Could it be color changing cars, or dresses? #IAEE #TSTS #MPI #MPI_dfw
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From our very good friends over at nymag.com
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Hosain Rahman also says sales of his company's fitness wearables haven't been hurt by the Apple Watch.
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Wearables are the next smartphones. They have come a long way from fitness bands to Google Glass to smartwatches like Pebble Time, Android Wear and of course, the Apple Watch
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ProLogium is a Taiwanese company currently in the field of battery manufacturing that having spent the last 7 years in deep R&D mode, developing, testing have finally released a radically new b...
Richard Platt's curator insight,
March 28, 2015 12:13 AM
As well as being lighter and much more flexible, FLCB-based batteries are also intrinsically safer. FLCB batteries do not catch fire, start to smoke or leak under almost any circumstances including physical, thermal or electrical impact. This is really good news for wearables which by their very nature will be close to the body, opening up several new applications that include today’s wearable technology in clothes, watches, jewellery, headsets and more. The FLCB batteries can be injection inserted or moulded in manufacturing processes that can reach temperatures of up to 2600 Celsius. They also don’t suffer from ‘Salting Out’ issues that plague electrolytic solutions and they can withstand cutting, piercing and even burning. It’s also important to note that in terms of battery life, ProLogium claim their FLCB technology also provides exceptional energy density, with anywhere up to double that of standard lithium polymer batteries today, so there is no performance hit in terms of mAh figures with FLCBs. The most exciting aspect however, is the fact that an FLCB will continue to function after physical impact or even outright mutilation. Being based on a printed circuit board, these FLCB batteries can also carry the signal and be joined to together as integral components in the device itself. This means that essentially the battery can be integrated in to the design, becoming part of the device itself, not a single and unwanted appendage that provides power. |
