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Singapore plans wearable coronavirus tracking device for 5.7mn residents
Singapore plans to give a wearable device to identify people who had interacted with carriers of coronavirus to each of its 5.7mn residents. Read more…
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Looking at predictions from 1953 about future phones is cool
It is fun looking back at predictions to see how close they turn out. One visionary from Pasadena in 1953 imagined the future of telephony – and nailed it. Read more…
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Contactless payment chips now embedded in fashion wearables
Mastercard and Tappy are enabling contactless payments through fashion wearables by embedding their respective technologies into a range of accessories Read more…
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Can big data help you avoid jet lag? Qantas is finding out
During the first-ever 19-hour direct flight, Qantas gathered data on passengers and crew to measure the impact on their health and test mitigation techniques. Read more…
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Now Zuckerberg wants wearables to read your mind
At a recent event at the Chan Zuckerberg BioHub, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he has plans for wearables that can read your mind. Read more…
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Stick it in your ear: the future of wearables is hearables
Hearables are selling like crazy, says IDC, and they may continue to do so, despite the best efforts of critics to make them seem dystopian and elitist. Read more…
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Smart clothing can boost signal, save battery life
Researchers in Singapore have invented ‘smart’ clothing they say can boost signals and save battery life. Read more…
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Friday Futures: psychic hearing aids, robocops and biobots
This week in Friday Futures: a hearing aid that reads your brain; thought-Googling; audio translators; robocops; biobots; and the Internet of VERY Silly Things. Read more…
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Consumer wearables to disrupt medical device market
Researchers and analysts have been showing a keen interest in the potential that consumer health wearables could disrupt the medical device market. Read more…
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‘Alexa, find me a doctor’ and the wearables revolution revs up
The wearables market seems to be extremely buoyant and expanding in interesting ways. It now seems as if wearables will become ubiquitous, and soon. Read more…