Wearable Technology - Media and Information Technology

2. TRY TO LOOK BACK FROM TEN YEARS
AGO. WHAT WAS THE “COOLEST”
TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIUM THAT YOU
COULD WEAR BACK THEN?

3. WHAT IS WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY?
•SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO BE WORN BY A PERSON (HAYWARD
ET.AL, 2016)
•IT AIMS TO GIVE THE USER AN EASY EXPERIENCE OF THE DEVICE
AND/OR ENHANCE THE USER’S SENSES WITHOUT HASSLE.

4. EXAMPLE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
- STANDALONE PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES
THAT CAN BE ATTACHED TO A PERSON’S WRIST.

6. - Wrist-worn, chest-worn, clip-on, or ear-worn
devices that use motion sensors to record
exercise and health statistics and progess
EXAMPLE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

8. EXAMPLE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
- Include virtual reality (VR) eyewear that can put
the functions of a smartphone or computer into
the user’s vision.

10. EXAMPLE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
- Includes heated apparel, medical apparel, work
monitoring apparel, etc.

12. EXAMPLE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
- Devices used in diagnosis and in helping
patients in recovery

14. EXAMPLE OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
- Includes wireless headphones,
simulations, etc.

16. 3D TECHNOLOGY

17. HAVE YOU WATCHED A MOVIE IN 3D? HOW WAS IT?
WAS IT BETTER THAN REGULAR CINEMA? IN WHAT WAYS?

18. Filmakers were able to incorporate real 3D technology in
films. Since then, the movie experience has never been
the same.

19. but there is more to 3D technology then films…
Did you know that you can now have
an object reproduce though 3D
printing?

20. WHAT IS 3D PRINTER?
In a 3D printer, a digital file created through 3D
modeling software or copied through a 3D scanner
can now be made into 3D solid object.

21. EXAMPLE OF 3D OBJECTS PRINTED FROM
3D PRINTER

22. VIDEO CLIPS 3D PRINTER

23. Have you
watched the
Iron Man
series?

24. Aside from the Iron Man Suit, perhaps the
most remarkable technology in the
series is J.A.R.V.I.S., the character TONY
STARK’S computers in the series is
HOLOGRAMS.

26. WHAT IS HOLOGRAMS?
is a 3D image reproduced through recording lights
from lasers scattered from an object (Workman,
2013)
the holograms that movies usually portray are
advanced holograms that people can touch and
control

28. ANSWER EXERCISE NO. 41