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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7BSIbGDgw International Business Times (IBT) looks forward to CES 2016 and tells us what to expect from the consumer electronics show. From International Business Times Wearables are one of the most talked-about technology categories of the last couple of years
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Smart Watches To Outsell Dedicated Fitness Trackers in 2016 Just as we said in our post entitled: ‘Best Fitness Tracker Devices 2016,’ smart watches will be the fitness tracker of choice in 2016. In Adobe’s 'Digital Trends Report,’ smart watch sales will surpass dedicated fitness trackers in the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7BSIbGDgw International Business Times (IBT) looks forward to CES 2016 and tells us what to expect from the consumer electronics show. Â From International Business Times Wearables are one of the most talked-about technology categories of the last couple of
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Este año el Mobile World Congress va a ser una mezcla de #5G, #terminales, #accesorios, #video360, #realidadaumentada, #realidadvirtual, #IoT, #hogarconectado, #smartcities, #apps, #servicios, #cloud, #seguridad, #lifestyle, #estilo, #contenidos, #wearables, #salud , #transformaciondigital… En fin. Y todo eso en 4 días de nada. (en Madrid, Spain)
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Inspired by petals, feathers, and scales, we developed a new textile language for Kinematics where the interconnected elements are articulated as imbricating shells.This dress can be customized to the wearer’s body through a 3D scan, and additionally, each element is now individually customizable: varying in direction, length, and shape.
NECLUMI is the first projection-based interactive necklace.
At the current stage the whole setup is based on iPhone running custom app and a picoprojector connected via hdmi cable and attached to the wearers chest.
Given the rate of miniaturisation of the picoprojector technology and observing the trend of wearables treated more as jewellery and fashion accessories rather than just gadgets, we predict that wearable projection and projection-based jewellery become a reality in a few years.
We’re currently committed to create a standalone version of the project and we’re opened for funding and collaboration.
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Technology helped me through the emotional roller coaster of CES
“Humans love to control how they feel. Booze and coffee have been perking us up and lubricating social situations for millennia. Mood-enhancing technology, on the other hand, usually tries to emulate a cup of joe or a glass of wine but without the need for rinsing your liver. I’m generally OK with pumping chemicals into my body, but with a few mood-changing gadgets catching my eye in the run-up to this year’s CES, I thought I’d give some a go. The hope was that I could avoid the usual uppers-and-downers routine that a week in Vegas demands.” - James Trew, Deputy Managing Editor, Engadget
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credit: University of Houston
By Shardell Joseph
A small, flexible, wearable device has been created that can provide band-aid style human interface, monitoring health or environmental conditions. The human-machine interface (HMI) consists of a small strip of material that can attach to the skin.
The researchers from the University of Houston, USA, have created an ultra-thin electronic device that can collect health, diagnostic, and environment information, with the capacity for medical, personal and professional applications. Focusing on the comfort of the wearable device, an issue that researchers continue to improve.
The researchers explained how the HMI also has potential for uses with prosthetic skin – a robotic hand and other robotic devices – with a HMI. It is this interface that automatically collects and relays information back to the wearer. The researchers described the device in a paper published in Science Advances as ‘ultra-thin, mechanically imperceptible, and stretchable.’
The device was fabricated in a one-step process, which used a metal oxide semiconductor. This was made out of indiu zinc oxide, on a nano-sized polymer base.
‘Indeed, the device has potential for myriad uses not just in wearable technology for humans, but also for robotic applications, to provide a sensor on the surface of a robot that might be able to sense environmental or health conditions, said University of Houston Mechanical Engineering Professor, CunjiangYu.
‘What if when you shook hands with a robotic hand, it was able to instantly deduce physical condition?’ he said in a press statement. Yu claimed that either robots or humans could use the device to test the environment in situations such as chemical spills.
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By Idha Valeur
The all-white clothes range for Wimbledon, designed by Stella McCartney, is also going green by using recycled materials.
In this new range of tennis-wear Adidas and McCartney are taking steps towards sustainability by creating the clothes out of recycled polyester, a synthetic fibre created using waste materials like plastic bottles and previously used clothing items that have been cleaned and processed again to turn them into new fibres ready for a new purpose.
As well as using recycled polyester, the collection is also made by using parley ocean plastic, which is a material developed from upcycled plastic waste which was picked up and hindered from entering the oceans at beaches and coastal areas before being turned into yarn, according to a press release.
Not only is the clothes made from recycled materials, with a better environmental footprint, but the technology used to create the range – dope dye technology – is also greening the line. The method wastes less water by incorporating colour directly into the material mix at the beginning stage in the production process.
‘Therefore, when the fibre is formed, it is already the desired colour and as a result, reduces wastewater by at least 10 litres per garment,’ the release stated.
The range, sold by Adidas, is available to purchase online now and the range can be seen on Wimbledon players such as Angelique Kerber, Caroline Wozniacki and Alexander Zverev.
