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The Wearable Technology Show is back next week in London, UK, but sadly I'm not going to be able to attend this year. Co-located with both the AVR360 and Digital Health Tech shows, it's a great event to see some of the latest innovations from and for the UK market. Over 3,000 people will attend so it's not CES, but
Activity trackers with built-in heart rate monitors are incredible pieces of technology. Sophisticated electronics crammed into a tiny space at relatively inexpensive cost and generating vast swathes of data. Fantastic as these devices are, they're aimed squarely at consumers. There's no guarantee that a thousand steps is a thousand steps. For medical applications, a validated wearable is required and these devices
Continuing GNC's coverage of the Wearable Technology Show, I'm with Kenneth from G+D Mobile Security which specialise in "user and device identities". In particular, they're behind some of the technologies that enable wearables and mobile devices to act as ID for, say, transit or ski lift passes. The team at G+D Mobile Security work to put additional value into an
In my experience, expecting a new baby is a conflicting mix of emotions ranging from total joy to sheer terror...and I'm the dad. For mums-to-be there's the extra worry from carrying the baby and 78% of women experience unhealthy levels of stress and anxiety during pregnancy. These concerns are not entirely unfounded as the risk of miscarriages and stillbirths is
When it comes to exoskeletons, many will think of Ripley's power loader in Aliens. While that kind of machine is still a little way off, what it did get right is that exoskeletons will be used to help with work and here's an early example from Dutch firm Laevo. I chat with Boudewijn Wisse from Laevo and I get to have a
It's stressful enough as an adult to go into hospital for an operation or procedure. Much as you know it's for your own good and the doctors are there for your benefit, hospitals are still unfamiliar territory for most people and there are machines which you're not quite to sure what they do and whether the beeping noise is normal.
I've been attending the Wearable Technology Show for a couple of years now and it's been interesting to see the change in fabrics, yarns and threads. In particular, the conductive wires for LEDs have gone from being obvious to almost invisible. If the LED wasn't powered up, it would be unnoticeable except close up. The Advanced Textiles team at Nottingham