Fabric woven from fiber-based solar cells and kinetic energy harvesters generates power day and night
Source: Walk Around in the Sun to Power Wearables With This Cloth – IEEE Spectrum
Tag: Clothing
New tech turns your arm into a smart watch touchpad | TechConnect
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a wearable technology that enables users to turn the skin on their lower arm into a touchpad, giving them a bigger surface to input information or commands to their smart watch.
Source: New tech turns your arm into a smart watch touchpad | TechConnect
The Clothing of the Future Could Shift Shape With Just a Glance – YouTube
Apple to work with U.S. defense department on wearable tech | Computerworld
Apple and Hewlett-Packard, among other organizations, will develop flexible, thin sensors that could be placed on uniforms and in tight spaces on ships or aircraft.
Source: Apple to work with U.S. defense department on wearable tech | Computerworld
As smartwatches gain traction, personal data privacy worries mount
Growing interest in smartwatches has sparked user privacy concerns as companies find ways to collect and use personal health, location and purchasing data found on the wearable devices of their customers and workers.
Source: As smartwatches gain traction, personal data privacy worries mount
The Apple Watch and our cyborg future | Computerworld
In his first week of wearing the Apple Watch, columnist Mike Elgan writes that he experienced three epiphanies about what the wearable revolution has in store for all of us.
Source: The Apple Watch and our cyborg future | Computerworld