Wearable Technologies - more than digital fashion accessories

The idea of two or more things coming together to form one united endeavor has created exciting innovations in the world of sports. Not long after I ran my first – and last – marathon before retiring due to a knee injury, the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) started putting chips in runners’ shoes to track their progress. Back then, my former employer, DEC Internet Business Solutions, provided the website that allowed runners and their families and fans to check race progress and performance in real time – which was though ultra-cutting edge at the time. But now, it’s become just a mundane expectation.

Skin Graph continues research into advanced parametric design and fabrication processes , in order to develop engineered textiles and materials for highly specialised performances. In addition to developing platforms that encourages the element of play into the design process. Skin Graph is increasingly more involved with scientific research fields with the focus on carrying out rigorous testing of behaviour, body language and fabricated performance.

The Wearables and Devices sector delivers detailed analysis of the smartphone, tablet, and wearables industries with research extending from the underpinning enabling technologies implemented in future mobile devices to the demand and supply dynamics at work in the world’s markets. While these mobile devices create the largest global consumer electronics market, providing myriad opportunities, it also provides some of the toughest challenges for vendors as segments of the market mature. To counter this development, the practice provides an understanding of the next phase of growth in the mobile devices sector utilizing key segmentations, market data, and forecasts. Essential research areas to aid this understanding includes enterprise applications, mobile broadband adoption, the effects of new developing business models, demand shifts to the replacement market, the transformative impact of core enabling technologies (such as flexible displays, energy harvesting, array cameras, and smart biometrics), and new revenue opportunities in modular devices and smart accessories.