The document discusses wearable computing and the phenomenon of fads, highlighting that the brain can survive for a short time after the heart stops. It mentions the inaccuracies in wearable devices' calorie burn estimations ranging from 9.3% to 23.5%. Additionally, it touches on the nature of a craze as a temporary enthusiasm lacking substance.

1. Wearable Computing
Thidakarn Rujipattanakul, MD
Fad or For Real?

3. The brain can survive for minutes
after the heart stops
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5. Small electronic devices worn by the user,
which enable mobile computing and
wireless networking
Wearable computer

8. Accuracy

9. Overestimating your calories
Burn 9.3 – 23.5%

11. Behavior Modification

13. Outcome

17. An intense and widely shared
enthusiasm for something,
especially one that is short-
lived and without basis in the
object's qualities; a craze.
Fad