Consensus opinion these days is that healthcare stands to be a major beneficiary of advancements in wearable techs, but significant barriers to adoption exist based on concerns around personal data security. It's a major sticking point with a lot of moving parts that's generating a great deal of discussion and think-time among industry analysts, entrepreneurs, [...]
Perhaps you have followed the antics of Healbe/Gobe with their Indiegogo campaign that raised more than $1M. This wearable wellness device is (was) the hot item on the crowd funding site. It started with a splash, and continued to make waves. Originally (purportedly) devised by a Russian software company using technology and experimentation from a [...]
Even in the short time that we have been keeping this blog, the evolution of the wearable world has been outpacing the ability to keep informed. Apple has a new iWatch,or maybe not. Healbe (Gobe) can measure glucose content in the blood, or maybe not. Google glass is a bust, or maybe not. Nike is [...]
Human body heat has been trending as a “hot” source of power (pardon the pun) for (wearable) devices at the moment. It has some drawbacks however, but more on that later. As a firmware engineer turned product manager, I am fascinated with wearable technology. Not only in figuring out how it works and how humans [...]