Wearable technology incorporates computer and electronic technologies into clothing and accessories. It allows for portability, convenience, and health monitoring through sensors. Popular wearables discussed in the document include smart contact lenses that detect glucose levels, Google Glass that displays information hands-free, and fitness trackers like the LG Lifeband and Heartbeat earphones that monitor biometrics. While many wearables have issues to address, the field has significant potential to enhance human capabilities and blur boundaries between seeing and viewing.

1. Wearabl
e
Technol
-Fashion
meets Tech
ogy

2. What ?
• clothing and accessories incorporating computer
and advanced electronic technologies
Why ?
• Portability, convenience, to stay healthy & fit by
monitoring various biometrics,etc
How ?
• usually by the use of different kinds of body
sensors

3. Wearable Technology
-Wearable technology, wearable devices, tech togs, or fashion
electronics are clothing and accessories incorporating
computer and advanced electronic technologies.
-The designs often incorporate practical functions and features,
but may also have a purely critical or aesthetic
agenda.
-The concept of wearable technology first emerged with the
introduction of calculator watch in the 1980’s

4. Design Principles of Wearable Technology
1. Solves a recurring problem for the
person
2. Starts from the human, not the machine
3. Requests attention, not demand it
4. Enhances human capabilities, not
replace them
5. Creates a net negative number of
problems
6. Enables deep and broad connectivity
7. Serves the software
8. Weniger, aber breiter (Less but broader)
9. Capitalizes on existing behavior
10. Augments the things we love, and
automates the things we don’t

5. The following 5 wearable technologies have
been focused upon:
Re-Timer
Smart Eyelashes & fingernails
Google Smart Contact Lenses
Google Glass
LG lifeband & heartbeat Earphones

6. Re T
imer

7. Fight Jet Lag with Re Timer
•Circadian Rhythm: body’s internal clock
•Frequent travelers
•Developed by Australian Flinder’s -a sleep
research company
•Wearable light device to regulate your body's
internal clock
•Battery rechargeable via USB
Working:
•Soft green light by LED mimics natural sunlight.
•Photoreceptors in eye detect sunlight, signal brain to be awake
•When it becomes dark in the evening, body produces melatonin
(the sleepy hormone) signaling body to sleep

8. Conclusion:
Very useful for frequent flyers in fighting off the perennial problem
of jetlag
Also very useful for prolonged winter or overcast days
Therapy for sleep disorder patients

9. Smart
Eyelas
hes &
finger

10. Smart Eyelashes & fingernails
•Wearing these, people can accomplish everyday actions like opening
doors or flipping through TV channels by blinking their eyes or snapping
their fingers.
•Kanoi Vega, 30, Ph.D at Pontificial Catholic University Rio de Janeiro
working on fingernails and conductive makeup
Working:
•The fingernails are rigged with individual
radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.
•They can be applied the same way
as any other artificial nail.
•The RFID readers in nails recognize tags within
two centimeters, and can be programmed to
open the door, say with a finger snap.

11. •The eyelashes and eyeliners work
as switches.
•When the user blinks, a
microcontroller can activate things
like lights, TV channels and
even drones.
•The makeup uses conductive material in the form of eyeliner and fake
eyelashes, turning basic eye and facial movements into programmable
actions. The lashes are chemically metalized to mimic a natural, black
color.
•Tech nails have been used to mix more than 25
tracks through a layer of water.
•The RFID readers recognize tags through
different materials, such as water, glass and
wood.

12. • A DJ Controller pad at the bottom of RFID
chip a water container was able to pick up on
hand movements.
An RFID chip
Conclusion
Overall, the project is just getting started. Research & experimenting
with different uses of the nails and makeup is being done to make the
products available for sale.

13. Smart
Contact
Lenses

14. Google Smart Contact Lens
•Google has taken its reputation for innovation to a new level &
released its new smart contact lenses.
•Ultra-flexible and transparent electronic circuit developed by Swiss
scientists at ETH Zurich
•Blood sugar of diabetic people can rise suddenly & be fatal
•Smart contact lens detects blood sugar levels in tears.
•Immense medical benefits offered by this technology such as
measuring glucose levels in tears & monitoring ocular health
•Smart contact lenses, covered with light, transparent and flexible
devices could serve to monitor intraocular pressure for glaucoma
disease.

15. Working:
•A substance parylene is deposited onto
vinyl polymer, which acts as a support
system; then circuitry is printed onto
the parylene.
•Chip is submerged into water, which
dissolves the polymer leaving the circuit
behind.
Conclusion:
•No pain of pricking fingers several times in a day as is the traditional
method of monitoring diabetes.
•Scientists have tested the circuit on an artificial eye, but more research
needs to be done before it can be sold commercially. Other
components, including long-lasting batteries and sensors are needed to
function outside of the lab.

16. Google
Glasses

17. Google Glass
• Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted
display (OHMD) developed by Google X under Project Glass.
• Displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free
format, communicating with the Internet via natural language voice
commands.
• Frames do not have lenses fitted to them
Key features:
• Operating System: android 4.0.4
• CPU: OMAP 4430 SoC, dual core
• Memory: 1GB RAM
• Storage: 16 GB flash drive
• Display: prism projector
• Camera: 5 mp
• Connectivity: wifi, Bluetooth micro USB
• Weight: 50g

18. Working
•Google Glass overlays the world with
information beamed onto the retina
by a prism that receives from a tiny
projector inside the lens and redirects
light into the retina. Both the physical
world and all relevant data is seen.
•Google Glass contains the
fundamental bits of any computer,
including a CPU, sensors such as
GPS, speakers, microphone and
battery, a tiny projector and a
prism.
•To keep the device as light as possible, most of the processing will
actually take place in the cloud.

19. Pros
• 1. Hands-free camera that shoots photos and video through voice
commands.
• 2. Ability to connect to the Internet by tapping on the right frame of Glass
to turn it on and then swiping along the same side to scroll
• 3. It still lets you be in the moment around you without being intrusive
Cons
• 1. Very high price
• 2. Short battery life
• 3. Glass's speaker, relying on a bone conduction technology is inadequate.
The speaker, transmitting sound through the skull to allow for ambient
noise, unfit to hear in noisy environment.
• 4. Privacy issues
Conclusion:
No doubt the Google Glass has many fundamental & functional issues to
deal with but it has enormous potential to be developed into perfection as
Google is making its best efforts to rectify the drawbacks of the product.

20. LG
Life&band
Heartbeat
Earphones

21. LG Lifeband & Heartbeat earphones
LG Lifeband Touch
•A fitness wristband developed by LG
•OLED provides view of incoming calls, the time, music
controls, and biometrics
•Touch screen to check how many steps have been taken,
what distance is covered, speed, and how many calories
have burned
•Both compatible with Android and iOS, can be used with
LG’s fitness app, or third-party apps like Runkeeper.
•Battery life is touted at between two and five days.
•Display comes to life when wrist is rotated.
•Compatible with heart rate monitors. Wireless connectivity
with smartphones or the Heart Rate Earphones via
Bluetooth.

22. • Heart Rate Earphones
• Measures blood flow signals from the inner ear to calculate accurate
biometric data on your heart rate and maximal oxygen consumption.
• Based on PerformTek sensor technology and a flexible ear piece
which is designed to be more comfortable
• Can send data to the Lifeband Touch or directly to
your smartphone via Bluetooth.
Conclusion:
These products from LG have excellent scope for further
development & will be very useful for helping people maintaining a
balanced & healthy life.

23. Conclusion
Wearable Technology is a field of immense scope &
potential.
Researchers & commercial vendors have started
developing, manufacturing and marketing these devices.
Clothing based computing will blur all boundaries between
seeing and viewing and between remembering and
recording.
Within the next few years, we can expect entirely new
modes of human — computer interaction. This will bring
forward a new set of technical, scientific and social needs
which will have to be addressed as we take the first step
towards coexisting with wearable computers.

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