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The next front of wearables
Techcrunch
In 2014, Nike abandoned its FuelBand fitness tracker and Sergey Brin “left his Google Glass in his car.” In 2015, Apple will launch its iWatch and Sony will enter the eyewear space. More kinds of wearables were introduced in CES 2015, just to leave us wondering whether what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, physically.
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Get naked with nearables
Demos Helsinki
Last summer, I started talking with an American professor while waiting for a non-existent ferry in Istanbul. I soon found out that he happened to...
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Infant wearables: Handy tools or too much information?
The Globe and Mail
Tracking a baby’s breathing or temperature might ease parental anxiety, but experts warn devices can’t prevent tragedies like SIDS
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The health concerns in wearable tech
The New York Times
Some researchers and consumers are now asking whether wearable computers will be considered harmful in several decades’ time.
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A Sci-Fi guide to wearables
Medium
Science fiction is the first testing ground for the future of technology, the place where we explore what different advances could mean moving forward for the human condition. Science fiction has…
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The Cicret Bracelet (Concept video)
YouTube - Cicret Bracelet
The Cicret Bracelet (Concept video).With the Cicret Bracelet, you can make your skin your new touchscreen. Read your mails, play your favorite games, answer ...
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Google Glass successor to sport larger prism, Intel chip
Slashgear
Google probably doesn't have the word "quit" in its vocabulary. After the lukewarm, almost negative, reception of Google Glass, the tech giant seems to be well
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Why the Apple Watch is flopping
Fast Company
When Apple fails at UX design and fashion design, do we still call it good design?
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Estimote sticker beacons - Introducing Nearables
YouTube - Estimote
Estimote Beacons and Stickers are small wireless sensors that you can attach to any location or object. They broadcast tiny radio signals which your smartpho...
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Big mother is watching you
Buzzfeed
<b>If you keep your fitness-related New Year's resolutions in 2015, it'll likely be thanks to the new wave of devices and apps that have taken monitoring things like newborn sleep patterns and blood oxygenation from geek hobby to mass-market juggernaut.</b> But what happens when companies have access to the most mundane details about our bodies?
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Nearables are here: introducing Estimote Stickers
Estimote
Nearables are here: introducing Estimote Stickers About a year ago we began shipping our first product, Estimote Beacons. Since then, we&rsquo;ve grown an incredible global network of over 25,000 developers...
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The next stage in the battle for our attention: Our wrists
NiemanLab
News companies have moved from print dollars to digital dimes to mobile pennies. Now, with the highly anticipated launch of the Apple Watch, the screens are getting even smaller. How are smart publishers thinking about the right way to serve users and maintain their attention on smartwatches?
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Making wearable tech more wearable
The New Yorker
By hiring Angela Ahrendts, the C.E.O. of Burberry, Apple may be betting on the future of devices like Google Glass.
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EM-Sense: Touch recognition of uninstrumented electrical and electromechanical objects
DisneyResearchHub
Most everyday electrical and electromechanical objects emit small amounts of electromagnetic (EM) noise during regular operation. When a user makes physical ...
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Google made a secret prototype that works like the Star Trek Communicator
Time
Google's device let users search by talking out loud much like in science fiction
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The future will eat itself: digesting the next generation of wearable tech
The Guardian
How ingestibles and mood-impacting technologies are changing our relationship with wearables
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First, there were wearables. Now, there are swallowables
CNBC
A health tech start-up is expanding the use of a digital sensor in our medicines, but what does it mean for the privacy of patients around the world?
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Beyond Fitbit: The quest to develop medical-grade wearables
Reuters
A new wave of wearable computing devices that detect and monitor serious diseases is moving from the laboratory to the market, potentially transforming the treatment of conditions ranging from epilepsy to diabetes and creating business opportunities estimated to be worth...
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The next phase of wearable tech: Tattoos
Slate
This video introduces DuoSkin, a new piece of wearable tech co-developed by MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research. It’s a fantastic idea: a paint-on...
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Snap is developing a second version of Spectacles which may include augmented reality
Techcrunch
Snap extended the sale of its Spectacles into Europe this month, but already the company is working on a second version of the video-recording glasses which could be quite radical, according to a source with knowledge of the plans. The first set of Spectacles went on sale last year and are priced at $129.99. They [&hellip;]
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Intel made smart glasses that look normal
The Verge
Intel’s new smart glasses won’t make you look like a Glasshole. By shining a low-powered laser into your retina, the glasses can get all sorts of information without pulling out your phone. Dieter Bohn got an exclusive first look.
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The wireless earbud revolution is coming
Forbes
With the impending release of Apple’s AirPods (not to be confused with the inexpensive wired EarPods) we are entering the era of wireless earbuds. And once again, while Apple is not the first to a market, it has brought attention to the category. Many companies are bringing wireless earbuds to market. [...]
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Hack your hearing: High-Tech controls let users tune everyday soundscapes
99 Percent Visible
Most of our current auditory technologies revolve around filtering out sounds (via earplugs and noise-cancelling headphones) or by enhancing them (through hearing aids).&nbsp;Newer technologies, however, are beginning to fundamentally challenge our binary conception of everyday audio experiences. The following series of forward-thinking concepts, patents and gadgets are&nbsp;starting to transcend&
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The future of technology is in your ear
Wired
A $13 experiment shows how bionic hearing devices will shape our interactions with people, bots, businesses, & ourselves
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Stealthy startup Human debuts headphones shaped like ears, calls them an ‘evolution of personal audio’
GeekWire
Human Inc. today opened pre-orders and unveiled more details about its new headphones and accompanying platform that it describes as an "
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What will people wear in the future?
YouTube - The Economist
Innovation in fashion is sparking radical change. In the future clothes could be computers, made with materials designed and grown in a lab. Click here to su...
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Electronic tattoos add power to wearable computing
Carnegie Mellon University
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Coimbra have developed a method to make tattoo-like circuits for use in wearable computing.
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Can these smart glasses do what Google couldn’t?
YouTube - The Verge
Focals smart glasses by North use some of the tech previously seen in Intel’s Vaunt glasses. They project a laser onto your eye and show notifications, map d...