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“Wearable Technology” has developed new methods that take over the limitations we come across while using the contemporary technological gadgets.
Instead of holding or sticking future gizmos in our pockets, we’d certainly now like to move a step further and imbibe these miniature machines in our bodies…literally!
Moreover, the fact that this assessment is real is proved by quite a number of breakthroughs we’ve witnessed in the recent times in the field of wearable technology. Here is a list of a few of them:
21. Burton Audex Motorola Cargo Jacket
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Price: £252.00
Designer/Company: Audex Motorola
Embedded Technology: Wireless/Bluetooth connectivity
Here’s the “Audex Motorola cargo jacket” which looks a lot smarter than our usual jackets as it boasts of a smarter brain too. It is a lot rugged and weather proof as compared to the jackets we carry. This Bluetooth jacket shows its compatibility with almost every Bluetooth phone.
Other distinctive features:
• Integrated Bluetooth System
• Storm-lite 5.0-C Fabric (20,000MM, 10,000G)
• Thermacore Insulation
• Sound Pocket with Headphone Cable Port
20. H3 video backpack
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Designer/Company: O’Neill
Embedded Technology: High definition video recording
This backpack is a way too advanced and speaks high definition. It contains a camera that helps you take clear, crisp and high quality images and videos of anything you want. The full controls of the camera attachment are hoisted inside the shoulder harness.
19. Cordless Ring Scanner Series 9
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Price: $1200
Designer/Company: Socket
Embedded Technology: Class 2 Laser device
Here is a breather for the super market people who get tired of picking up the bar code machine repeatedly. This is a new Cordless Ring Scanner Series 9 from the house of Socket.
It comprises of a tiny Class 2 laser device, which is made out of LiquidMetal. You can wear it as a finger ring. Joined to a wrist-mounted Bluetooth transmitter and integrated with keyboard emulation software, it allows the bar code information to be converted into machine recognizable software/language.
18. Wearable light therapy device
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Designer/Company: Engels
Embedded Technology: Philips tech
Engels, a fresh graduate of the Delft University of Technology, has developed a unique “wearable light therapy device” that helps you heal, especially Crigler-Najjar syndrome, and that too with light rays. “Philips tech” is the key technology that is integrated in this device. The people who suffer from this syndrome are unable to breakdown a red blood cell by-product called “bilirubine”. This condition makes quite a lot of toxins into the patient’s body and this ultimately leads to loss of immunity throughout.
17. Augmented reality / PLM-A35 LCD Eyeglasses
16. Smarty Pants: Computing Meets Motion-Sensing Fabric
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Designer/Company: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Embedded Technology: Embedded sensor distribution
A group of researchers at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute have developed a pair of pants that judge your leg movements. They seem to be quite normal pair of jeans unless you get to know them better. They surely are a lethal combination of “Technology” and “Fashion”.
The people at the University claim that they have incorporated a special type of Loom that is used to stitch the cloth and wires together. The special cloth of the pant has an “embedded sensor distribution” throughout its length that judges the velocity, rotation and flexibility of the fabric. After making out the exact configurations, the signals are sent wirelessly to a computer that in turn lodges the data.
It may find use in the medical field where a patient’s movements are to be evaluated. The scientists are thinking of widening there horizons by innovating a full body attire incorporating this technology. Not a bad idea at all!
15. Air guitar shirt
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Designer/Company: CSIRO
Embedded Technology: Infrared wireless sensors
Australian research organization CSIRO boasts of developing something, which rather does not exist, or I would say you might not be able to catch an eye on it. They have developed an “Air guitar shirt”, embedded with infrared sensors, that seriously makes jazzy music through its invisible strings.
It wirelessly transmits the real time positioning of your arms and analyses the movements henceforth which then it converts into music and jazzy stuff. It boasts of making good music through your unprofessional moves too. So do not worry, you will still sound like a pro even when you are an amateur.
14. Kool KITTY Keyboard Kontraption
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Designer/Company: KITTY TECH
Embedded Technology: Keyboard Independent Touch Typing Technology
KITTY TECH has come up with an innovation that they term as the –“Keyboard Independent Touch Typing Technology” that would enable future computer users to type without getting into the hassles of using the bulky and space consuming keyboards.
With this marvelous technology, we would be able to input data into our systems by just moving our fingers in some definite way.
13. Video Eyewear 3D wearable display
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Designer/Company: Icuiti
Embedded Technology: Video LCD displays
This Video Eyewear 3D wearable display seems to be the next thing in the field of “Video Streaming”. The hip VisualWear’s new Video Eyewear wearable display, developed by Icuiti, shows compatibility with 3 –D video imaging that is definitely a concept “direct from the future”.
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Consequently, Visualwear is manufacturing a shutter system to allow contemporary DV cameras to record 3D video, as well as a 3D video editing kit for PCs; both will be sold to the content makers and developers.
12. Wearable Electronic Device Controller
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Designer/Company: Engineered Fibre Structures
Embedded Technology: Optical Fibers and Bluetooth connectivity
Researchers at Engineered Fibre Structures (EFS), a University of Manchester, have developed a “bluetooth glove” with which controlling every Bluetooth enabled electronic device would be on your fingertips now.
This glove is crafted from acrylic or nylon-based yarn that makes it very flexible yet sturdy. An electronic signal is transmitted when you touch any two of your fingers and by completing this connection, you may drive the power through your hand. Miniature electronic integrated circuits help carry the signal through the Bluetooth connection.
11. Wearable Finger-Based Cellphone Concept
10. Wrist Wearable Computer - Zypad
Designer/Company: Zypad
Embedded Technology: Resourceful wearable computer system
The Zypad WL 1000 is one of its kind wearable computer systems that aim to free you of numerous tasks that may hinder your computer related works.
While you are at a particular task, you can still use your computer that is right there on your wrist. It has all those capabilities that a normal, contemporary PC system can offer you. This one features a hands-free operation, robust wireless functionalities and built-in GPS tracking device.
This resourceful wearable computer assists as a perfect tool for emergency search and salvage, healthcare, homeland security, maintenance, law enforcement, logistics, transportation, and defense applications.
Other distinctive features:
Processor: AMD Au1100 400MHz 32-bit MIPS
Memory RAM: 64MB non-volatile Flash
ROM: 64MB non-volatile Flash
Wireless: WLAN Wi-Fi IEEE802.11 b/g with integrated antenna
WPAN - Bluetooth class 2 (32 feet)
GPS Integrated L1 band 12-channel GPS receiver and helix antenna
Display: 240 x 320 3.5″ TFT LCD 256K color touchscreen with automatic contrast adjust
9. Methanol-fueled artificial muscles 100x stronger than the original
Designer/Company: University of Texas
Embedded Technology: Nickel-titanium shape-memory wire coated in a platinum catalyst.
“Medical Nanotechnologists’ at the University of Texas have developed an artificial muscle that uses a Nickel-titanium shape-memory wire which is coated in a platinum catalyst.
In this technique, fumes of methanol, hydrogen and oxygen are made to pass over the platinum coated wire, these fumes then react chemically with the platinum coating which makes the wire to contract and thus act exactly like an real organic muscle capable of generating around 100 times more force as compared to a human muscle.
They have also developed a second type of muscle fabricated from “carbon nanotubes”. This one generates a slight lesser force as compared to the real stuff. The carbon sheets are expanded due to the charge formation as soon as the fuel reacts with oxygen fumes.
This artificial muscle is capable of storing electrical energy just as in case of a condenser, which may be used at the instant of heavy energy depletion. Scientists are thinking of amalgamating this technique with the “Robotic Exoskeletons” to get a lethal combination of speed and precision.
8. Exoskeletons: Wearable Robots
7. The video helmet
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Designer/Company: Toshiba Corporate Research and Development Center
Embedded Technology: Dedicated infrared sensors
Toshiba Corp’s full-faced dome shaped prototype headgear would enable us to see a real life 3-D night view of Tokyo.
In this technique, an omni-directional image is made to project on a 40 centimeters wide screen inside a 2.7-kilogram helmet in alignment with the wearer’s head position as perceived by the dedicated infrared sensors.
This one may find its use with virtual reality gamers and simulation developers. Toshiba is thinking of making this technique public in 2-3 years hence. The wearer’s may have an advantage of viewing a full 160 degrees in a horizontal plane and 120 degrees in a vertical plane, thus increasing their viewing angle by a considerable amount.
6. Robotic jacket has power up its sleeve
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Designer/Company: Matsushita Electric Industrial
Embedded Technology: Compressed air mechanism
“Wearable artificial muscle” is the next big revolutionary concept to be actualized in the Medical field. Seriously, this artificial muscle makes you feel as if you have “power” up your sleeves.
A considerable amount of people are suffering from “muscular dystrophy” and other muscle related ailments, so this breakthrough from the house of Matsushita Electric Company may prove to be an advancement for such patients and would assist them in some extreme cases like “paralysis”. These artificial muscles are driven through compressed air that helps them to contract as well as expand as per the need of the patient.
5. Stand-Alone Power Assist Suit Amplifies Human Strength
4. Astronaut Wears
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Designer/Company: European Space Agency
Embedded Technology: Life support system
These “Space Suits”, from the European Space Agency (ESA), have a full life support system for the Russian Space researchers safeguarding against muscle loss in space. It delivers a full muscle protection for the wearer and a full life support system. The ESA have termed it “a mix of sports dress, hot pants and climbing harness.”
3. Scientists Develop Single Wavelength Invisibility Cloak
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Embedded Technology: Light Refraction
Groups of researchers have come up with a great new idea of making objects simply disappear in front of your eyes. They have worked out a completely new concept and formulations that would make objects invisible in front of our eyes.
The scientists boast that this new breakthrough incorporates a blueprint that makes use of tiny needles to be fixed into a hairbrush shaped cone at angles and lengths that would compel light to pass around the cloak and thus it would not reflect the light back into the viewer’s eyes.
Seriously, a completely new world of possibilities may emerge through this technological breakthrough.
How we perceive objects is through a simple phenomena – we are able to view objects and things when the light falling on objects fall back into our eyes. Therefore, if we are able to build a device that counterfeits the phenomena of “reflection” then we may find our answer to this technique.
When we view a glassy surface or even glass, the light refracts through it and does not reflect back into our eyes, thus making it invisible to us.
This technique, like every other, has its limitations too. This device can only bend light of a particular wavelength, thus is not able to bend each wavelength of visible spectrum.
2. SoloTrek XFV
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Designer/Company: Millennium Jet’s Sunnyvale
Embedded Technology: VTOL
A “Silicon Valley” aerospace company has discovered a breakthrough while they were testing their paradigm-shifting new product, SoloTrek XFV.
This prototype aircraft shows off a 100% take off power and a vertical thrust which enables a person to experience the unbelievable VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing).
Michael Moshier, chief executive and chief technical officer, said, “This sets the stage for tethered-hover testing to begin in the mid-to-late summer timeframe.”
Millennium Jet’s Sunnyvale headquarters are busy developing a High-power system and sir Moshier had some views to share on this phenomenon too – we were able to bring the engine, drivetrain and ducted fans up to about 105 percent take-off power and thrust without exceeding 75 percent throttle. Achieving this critical milestone demonstrates that SoloTrek can generate sufficient take-off thrust while maintaining an adequate power reserve. It also proves the capability of the vehicle’s gearboxes and drive shafts to perform well under high load without overheating or noticeable vibration.
1.Dan Schlund, the “Rocketman”
