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The future of Wearable Technology
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- 2016first covered
- 27 Jun 2025latest update
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- These new Infra Red contact lenses let you see in the darkBiotech and enhanced humans
- With Brain.ai generative AI is the OSAI and intelligence
- New ultrasound printer can print organs inside the human body without surgeryBiotech and enhanced humans
- This brainwave reading wearable can predict strokes before they happenBiotech and enhanced humans
- These new earbuds can read your mind and analyse your sweatBiotech and enhanced humans
- Electrogenetic breakthrough finds a way to control your genes via wearablesBiotech and enhanced humans
- Smart bandages could one day monitor and medicate chronic injuriesBiotech and enhanced humans
- These sonar enabled smart glasses can listen in on silent voice commandsAI and intelligence
- Your level of stress can now be measured using a simple palm worn smart tattooBiotech and enhanced humans
- Nanomagnetic computing could help create ultra efficient AI’s at the edgeComputing
- The world’s first augmented reality contact lens just got its first human trialComputing
- Non invasive wearable tech monitors cholesterol levels through the skinBiotech and enhanced humans
- New wearable catches cancer cells directly from your bloodstreamBiotech and enhanced humans
- MIT’s newest material contains sensors and a neural networkComputing
- Speedo’s insane 3D printed whale inspired Aquaman swimsuit has its own onboard AIIndustry and manufacturing
- Samsung shows off a new stretchable display perfect for wearablesIndustry and manufacturing
- Futuristic Dubai nail salon turns your nails into digital storage devicesComputing
- AI can sense students levels of stress from phone data and formsAI and intelligence
- MIT’s smart clothes measure your body’s movements more accurately than everConnected society
- Material that harvests electricity directly from 5G signals ushers in the “Internet of Electricity”Earth and energy
- Future wearables will be powered by your skinEarth and energy
- New smartphone ultrasound fingerprint sensor really gets under your skinIndustry and manufacturing
- Printed flexible electronics bring smarter smart clothes closer to realityIndustry and manufacturing
- Researchers’ brainwave reading temporary tattoo reads your mind and your moodsConnected society
- Scientists are developing a face mask that lights up if it detects Covid-19Industry and manufacturing
- Wearables join the fight to help identify people infected with Covid-19Connected society
- Sweat sensor for wearables opens up a treasure trove of healthcare dataBiotech and enhanced humans
- Featured Futurist: Stuff Magazine, The Invisible WearablesArticles
- Next gen wearable monitors your blood and the environment to improve your healthBiotech and enhanced humans
- The Future of Sport 2030 | Decathlon, France | Matthew Griffin | Sports and Wellness Keynote SpeakerArticles
- Magnetic human skin breakthrough could lead to new types of wearablesBiotech and enhanced humans
- A new artificial human skin gives people spiderman like superpowersBiotech and enhanced humans
- Researchers tap transistors unique quantum fingerprints to ID systems and stop cyber criminalsSecurity and privacy
- DNA based marketing is becoming a reality, and brands are cashing inConnected society
- Teslasuit’s haptic bodysuit lets VR users experience full body immersionVirtual worlds
- Shooting laser beams from your eyes a reality after scientific breakthroughBiotech and enhanced humans
- Mission Impossible style smart contact lens gets US military’s attentionBiotech and enhanced humans
- First of a kind material lets solar panels generate electricity from snowEarth and energy
- Revolutionary Bio-Compatible transistors will let AI’s interface with your brainComputing
- Paper based bio-battery uses bacteria to power the internet of thingsEarth and energy
- Scientists 3D print Lithium Ion batteries for the first timeEarth and energy
- 3D printed fashion takes over New York Fashion WeekIndustry and manufacturing
- New glasses will beam augmented and virtual reality directly into your eyesVirtual worlds
- This nano-membrane turns your skin into a loudspeakerIndustry and manufacturing
- Scientists have created an ultrasound patch to monitor your vital healthIndustry and manufacturing
- Scientists printed a flexible battery that could revolutionise wearable computersEarth and energy
- US military starts trialling robotic surgeons in the battlefieldBiotech and enhanced humans
- Japanese team show off their new flexible skin display technologyIndustry and manufacturing
- Fantastic self-healing material regenerates after suffering “catastrophic damage”Industry and manufacturing
- Revolutionary Nano-antenna is hundreds times smaller than today’s state of the artIndustry and manufacturing
- UC Berkeley’s atom thin display paves the way for truly invisible displaysIndustry and manufacturing
- Empatica’s smartwatch predicts Epileptic seizuresBiotech and enhanced humans
- MIT’s “mind reading” wearable let’s you silently interact with all your devicesComputing
- MIT’s breakthrough battery makes electricity from thin air, literallyEarth and energy
- Under Armour’s new clothes help heal your body while sleepingIndustry and manufacturing
- MIT invents a 3D printed dye that lets objects change colour on demandIndustry and manufacturing
- Electric eel inspired bio-batteries could revolutionise pacemakers and wearablesEarth and energy
- Wirelessly charged smart underpants hit the floor at CESEarth and energy
- Researchers unveil self-charging fabrics that could power tomorrow’s Smart ClothesEarth and energy
- ShiftWear’s custom E-Ink kicks bring clothing to lifeConnected society
- Orii uses bone conduction tech to build the phone of your childhood dreamsAI and intelligence
- World’s first liquid transistor could usher in a new era of liquid computersComputing
- Researchers use 3D printing to create a soft electronic wearableIndustry and manufacturing
- Ditch your telco provider, Blockchain based Mesh networks are coming to townConnected society
- SkinTrack lets you control your smart watch with your skinVirtual worlds
- MIT’s newest chip could bring speech recognition to every deviceComputing
- Researchers prove your smart watch can flag when you’re getting illConnected society
- Google’s Eric Schmidt says the “Internet will disappear”Computing
- Wiivv paves the way for perfect fitting, 3D printed apparelIndustry and manufacturing
- New electronics breakthrough lets devices run for years without batteriesEarth and energy
- Fabric circuits open a door to smarter clothesIndustry and manufacturing
- Intel cosies up to ARM and stalks AppleComputing
- Science meets technology at Team USA’s training campBiotech and enhanced humans
- Governments mull replacing citizens wages with an Universal Basic IncomeConnected society
- Bots, disruption and the advent of conversational commerceOpinion
- Wearables, fad or world changing innovation?Opinion
- Is Adidas on the cusp of being disrupted?Opinion
- In the future everything will be connectedOpinion
- Apples new trojan horseOpinion
- Generation Z, the first immortal generation?Opinion
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