2. Discipline devoted to exploring and creating devices that can either be worn
directly on the body, or incorporated into a user’s clothing or accessories.
Wearable technology will help us:
• Record the world around us
• Nudge us into action
• Communicate information between one another
• Allow us to control our environments
• Reflect our well being back to us
In the next five years we will witness rapid development and mainstream adoption
of wearable technologies.
What is Wearable Technology
4. Chips and batteries
are getting smaller
Sync with broader
ecosystem of
connected
technologies
Evolution in interface,
tracking and
responding abilities
(gestures, biometrics)
Restoring and
augmenting current
human senses
Sophisticated sensors
and algorithms
Free flow
communication across
devices and platforms
Key themes driving wearable enhancements:
7. Architecture
Sensors
Displays
Computing architecture
A wearable device may include one, two, or all three functions.
Smart watch may contain
sensors that gather data
about user and his
environment, but it may
have limited display
functionality and no
computing power.
Computing may
occur in the
cloud or on a
multipurpose
device such as a
smartphone
Display may be on a
nearby screen or in a
pair of smart glasses,
or it may even use an
earbud or pendant
for verbal response
8. Wearable over Mobile
• Introduces technology into previously prohibitive environments
o Safety, logistics, or even etiquette constrain traditional technology solutions
• Enable workers with digital information—especially where hands-free utility offers a
clear advantage.
o Using wearables, workers in harsh environmental conditions can access data without
removing gloves
• Enables user to take real-world actions by providing relevant, contextual information
precisely at the point of decision making.
• Scenarios where using a laptop, phone, tablet, may not be appropriate as well as in
making use of the data gathered by sensors
10. Scope of Market
Heads-up Displays (HUDs)
• Contextually relevant information is
presented via an accessible, but
secondary, out-of-eye display.
• Think Kopin Golden-i and Google Glass.
Augmented Reality Glasses
• Real-time information and services is
provided in the user’s view of the world
• Ideal for the heads-up, hands-free
worker.
• Applications for manufacturing,
logistics, and in-stadium entertainment
are targets for future adoption where
large numbers of people are engaged in
similar tasks that require access to the
same information.
Brian Ballard, CEO-, APX Labs believes market is divided in two broad categories:
11. Use-Cases
In Australia, firefighters
are being outfitted with
a data-transmitting pill
that can detect early
signs of heat stress.
Health care insurance
companies may offer
policy discounts for
members who quantify
their healthy lifestyles
by wearing fitness-
tracking devices
On manufacturing floor,
workers can view
metrics for an
equipment on a smart
watch. AR overlays in a
warehouse can guide a
worker to find, move,
pick, pack, and ship
products
Field installation,
service, and
maintenance
professionals are being
outfitted with smart
glasses to access
documentation,
procedural tips, and
skilled advice
• Improve supply chains, workflows, and processes to drive down costs and increase
competitiveness
• Discard or refine current processes
• Deliver specific instructions, for rarely needed procedures (eg: medical emergency), at the point
of impact
• Access to equipment manuals while repairing an oil rig or bridge cable
12. Applications: Healthcare
• According to WHO, approximately 50 percent of patients fail to take medicine
correctly and more than 50 percent of medicines are prescribed, dispensed, or sold
inappropriately.
• Proteus Digital Health has developed a system that includes both a body-worn
patch and a small ingestible sensor that supports patients in tracking their medicine
usage and health
Prescription & Medicine Tracking:
• Philips Healthcare’ POC: Using a hands-free device (Google Glass) to improve the
efficiency of surgical procedures.
• Surgeon reviews numerous screens to monitor a patient. Now, by wearing a
headset, a surgeon can monitor required information while keeping both eyes on
the patient.
• Using simple voice commands, a surgeon can request to view a patient’s vital signs
or medical history (electronic health record)
• Also allows doctors to virtually be in two places at once. For example, if a doctor
performing a routine procedure were called upon to assist with another patient, he
or she could review the vital signs of both patients to determine the more critical
need
Surgical Procedures:
13. Applications : Wearable Wardrobe
Smart Socks:
• Sensoria smart socks by Heapsylon to track how much a user is exercising.
• In future will help prevent and manage falls and foot injuries and to collect information
that health care professionals can use to provide better-quality care.
Head impact indicator :
• Reebok’s CheckLight beanie measures the intensity of blows to the heads of athletes
participating in contact sports, sending an alert when a blow is moderate or severe
Diapers:
• Huggies announced prototype sensor-laden diapers that can tweet parents when their
infants need to be changed
Fitness and activity tracking devices are predicted to top $1 billion in sales in 2014
14. Applications : Festival Fashion
Google Glass – No word of a UV-rated pair yet,
but apparently there will be a version that can
attach to your own varifocals
LED Headwear – Created using a 3D printer,
this 20s-style headdress is covered in LEDs that
respond to head movement
Glove Tricorder – Figure out exactly how drunk
you are with this self-diagnosing, sensory glove
from Med Sensation. Sadly, it won’t cure that
hangover though
RFID Wristband – With support software, this
wristband, that uses RFID technology, can work
as a paperless ticket, cashless wallet and a
contactless way of updating Facebook
Flexible Display Map – Most of the tech giants
are on the verge of launching some form of
flexible display. How about using one for a
festival schedule that you could also use to
watch video clips of the acts you missed
Sensor Socks – These socks have embedded
sensors within the fabric that can notify you of
your balance via a mobile. We can’t guarantee
they won’t smell though
16. Connected Intimacy (Person to Person)
Enhance our personal relationships by extending communication over
distance
17. Long Distance Togetherness: Connects people over long distance, simulate togetherness and place precedence
on the comforts that only another person can provide
Data Streamed Care Helps in continuously tracking and remotely monitoring wearer’s health and performance
Connected Intimacy
18. Connected Intimacy
Emotional Mirror: Conveys wearer’s reaction to surrounding and emotions
Eg: Cadburys Joy Jackets as
well as The GER MOOD
SWEATER interprets
emotion and displays
excitement levels instantly
with an illuminated collar
19. Tailored Ecosystem (Person to Computer)
Wearable devices will better define the human experience with technologies
20. Tailored Ecosystem
Bespoke Biotech 3D technology has enabled the way materials can be created to support individual needs and
requirements
Biometrically Attuned Aims at collecting information to gather conditions suitable to wearer’s current conditions
22. Co-evolved Possibilities (Person as Computer)
Wearable technology can augment people’s existing abilities or evolving input
interfaces alongside the natural inputs
23. Co-evolved Possibilities
Augmented Sensory Reception Hybrid technologies are being integrated with human bodies to augment
existing abilities and in some cases overcoming personal challenges
Cloud Memory Automated tools are enabling people to capture and digitalize the current events and
experiences for accessing them later.
24. Co-evolved Possibilities
Onboard Interface By tapping into existing human behaviors, such as using gestures and other natural
human inputs to interact with devices, these solutions are reducing complex tasks into intuitive actions
Authenticated Self Embedded and wearable devices are being linked with individual users to expedite
verification process
25. Best of London's Wearable Tech Show 2014
Reemo
• Gesture band
• Aims to turn the real world into a point and click
environment
• Recognizes simple pointing and waving gestures, with
receivers hooked up to appliances around the home.
Optinvent Ora
• Augmented reality glasses
• Alternative to Google Glass and Vuzix smart glasses
• Built on an Android smartphone with data but without
phone connectivity
• Three-times larger screen than Google Glass,
overlaying information on your vision as you go about
your day.
26. Best of London's Wearable Tech Show 2014
SnapWatch
• Bi-stable nature of the snap concept allows the
SnapWatch to be used as both a long solid strip or as a
bracelet.
• The concept, which currently uses an electrochromic
display, has been built into prototypes of music
players, watches and smartwatches
AiQ Smart Clothing
• AiQ is a smart clothing manufacturer, which has
created super-thin stainless steel fibres that feel like
wool
• It can measure a wearers EEG, ECG, stress levels, fat
content, muscle strength or anything else that uses
current applied through the skin
27. Best of London's Wearable Tech Show 2014
SunFriend
• Watch-like device that uses sensors to measure your
UVA and UVB exposure from the Sun.
• Users can alter their skin sensitivity rating creating a
personalized dosage meter, getting a warning when
they have hit their limit.
Vrase
• Vrase is essentially an Oculus Rift that uses a
smartphone for the display
• The accessory headset straps to the face with a slot for
a smartphone – the iPhone and a variety of Android
phones are currently supported.
• The smartphone is then used to display a split screen
image, which the Vrase headset turns into a 3D picture
28. Best of London's Wearable Tech Show 2014
Glofaster
• Light-up jacket that pairs with sensors to detect your
heart rate
• Gives the wearer instant visual feedback on while
training.
SunSprite
• UV and light exposure meter that uses special filters to
match the level of bright light entering your eye.
• Designed to measure bright light exposure for treating
and monitoring seasonal affective disorder (Sad)
29. Best of London's Wearable Tech Show 2014
Kopin Golden-i 3.8D
• Wearable computer, built around an Android
smartphone without the cellular connectivity
• Responds to voice commands
• Useful for hands-free access to information while on
the job.