UK-based mobile tech company Mobetrics has received funding to take wearables where none has gone before: into the world of nuclear decommissioning. Second Sight will give workers a real-time view of radiation doses, suit temperatures, and heart rates, as well as technical information and assistance. This, in turn, raises the safety level of the operation, providing … [Read more...]
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Virtual Arms Race
There are all kinds of useful wearable tech that replace or supplement stay-at-home gear. Now NEC has ARmKeyboard, a device that isn’t even corporeal; it’s a virtual keyboard that runs up your arm. The keyboard/software coordinates glasses with a camera display and smart watches. Wearing the glasses and looking at the watch gives the software the coordinates of the devices; … [Read more...]
Football Roundup: IoT meets NFL
Every NFL uniform has changed this year, although not so’s you’d know it by looking. As of the start of the 2015 season, every player’s uniform includes two RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) sensors, about an inch in diameter, embedded in right and left shoulder pads. In addition, every NFL stadium is now has receivers that pick up the unique player frequencies, tracking … [Read more...]
Power Dressing with the ION Belt
Smartphones have become pretty much indispensable, but no matter which brand you have, you have to return them to a mothership periodically to charge up. Now a Kickstarter product, the UK-based ION Belt, solves the problem of all those interruptions in your high-speed life. ION Belt is a leather belt, with a built-in 3,000mAh battery—enough to charge an iPhone 6 1.5 … [Read more...]
Bionic Eyes Are Smiling
What would you say to better than 20/20 vision, without having to worry about glasses or contacts—ever? Now what would you say to having a lens implanted in your eye? Dr. Garth Webb, a Canadian optometrist, and founder and CEO of Ocumetics Technology Corp., thinks he can do away not only with corrective lens, but also with cataracts. He and his team have developed the … [Read more...]
Blocks: DIY Modular Smartwatch
Wish your smartwatch came with more or different functions? Is there just that one thing missing that would make it exactly what you want? Blocks might have be able to make your day fairly soon. The Blocks modular watch has taken some two years of development just to get to Kickstarter. Their original goal was to raise $250,000; to date, they have raised more than $1 … [Read more...]
Toilet Training the World
Everything is getting smarter: running gear, watches, jewelry, fashion, you name it. Now from Japan, there's a smart device that reminds you to do what bears do in the woods. Dfree is a device from the Japanese company Triple W that fits (or sticks) on your underwear and warns you when you are going to need to get to a bathroom. "This device predicts faecal excretion. The … [Read more...]
Lumo Runs the Numbers
All runners, amateur or pro, want to get better every time they run and avoid injury. That’s one of the reasons coaches keep stats and why fitness tracking devices are so popular. Lumo now makes it even easier—and quite possibly more accurate—by putting all the electronics in your running shorts. Lumo Run running shorts are the result of Lumo teaming up with sports … [Read more...]
FIFA to Set Standards for Wearables
FIFA, the international governing body of the football Americans call soccer, is looking to set a standard in wearable technologies for its 209 member associations. They are joined by IFAB, the International Football Association Board. Earlier this year, IFAB decided to allow players to use wearable electronic performance and tracking systems (EPTS) under two conditions: … [Read more...]
Itsy-Bitsy Solar Panel to Power New Google Lens
First smart glasses, now smart contact lenses? How are they going to get all that info on something the size of your thumbnail? Not to mention using solar power? Google thinks it can be done. The company has been granted a design patent for a wearable communication device shaped like a contact lens, including sensors, memory and a microprocessor. Power would be provided by … [Read more...]