An important design consideration for wearable technologies is understanding how to deliver as much information as possible to users before they transition their attention to another device. Wearable technologies ability to capture users' attention, provide immediate visual notifications, and stimulate a response from the wearer requires a different approach than text-heavy communications. The physical constraints of devices such as smartwatches that offer brands an opportunity to use a rich visual language to quickly communicate to users ideas that would otherwise require scrolling through lots of text.

 

In the coming decade, wearable technology is expected to touch nearly every aspect of human lives. It is definitely going to allow and open up many possibilities to bring the power of the Internet to everything we do and see. In the recent developments of venture capital funding for wearable technology recently suggest that the size of funding  surpassed half a billion dollars and is rapidly accelerating. In the face of such optimism it is critical not to confuse novelty with value to the consumer. The best products in this space provide an ongoing utility beyond the novel location of the device. Different industries developing and functioning with the ongoing innovation and implementation of wearable technological accessories, devices and overall experience are listed in the following:

The gaming industry has always been one of the major industries to take advantage of technological innovations, innovations and incorporation of technologies such as HTML5 and 3D, to improve the user experience, and it’s not stopping now with wearable technology in gaming taking the virtual reality concept, which has been around for many years, and make it possible to become mainstream.

 

Wearable technology is expected to soon initiate a new chapter of mobile entertainment and mass market games. Mind Pirate, a developer of mobile games and gaming technology that combine real and virtual worlds, recently announced plans for offering games and technology that go beyond the typical touchscreen-only design and tap into the full range of mobile sensing capabilities that are unique to current smartphones, tablets and next-generation devices such as Google Glass.

 

For example one of the major companies in gaming wearable section is The Oculus Rift. The company manufactures an  virtual reality head-mounted display. It is being developed by Oculus VR, who have raised US$91 million, of which $2.4 million was raised with crowdfunding via Kickstarter.

 

 

As wearable products become a more prominent piece in the technological playing field, their impact on sports will continue to grow exponentially. How various sporting games will be played and managed going forward will inevitably be persuaded by the advancement of technology. Teams, leagues, coaches and players will rely heavily on the introduction of new, innovative products. Sports have already begun dabbling in this new wave of wearable technology, with running being one of the most commonly associated with the trend. Introduction of Adidas miCoach Smart Run watch, and Nike Furl Band are some of the excellent inventions in the sports and technology combined industry. These bands and watches serve several purposes and offer value to runners, and any sport athlete who constantly seek to stay in tune with their training performances. The products, like many others newly introduced to the marketplace, takes advantage of GPS technology, allowing for a more accurate measure of distance and time.

 

European online retailer, Blacksocks, manufacters Smarter Socks, the first socks use RFID technology to facilitate sorting and to ensure that each sock is correctly matched to its pair after washing. Smarter Socks are implanted with RFID chips that communicate with the Sock Sorter, which allows iPhones to be RFID-compliant.

 

Using new wearable electronics as light and thin as temporary tattoos, scientists have now taken a person's temperature and monitor not only their health but also their mental state. Taking a person's temperature can reveal more than a fever. For instance, analyzing tiny, regular variations in body temperature can reveal how blood vessels are constricting and dilating, which is linked to cardiovascular health. Monitoring changes in temperature can even shed light on a person's mental state.

 

The best existing technologies for measuring skin temperature include simple, paste-on sensors and sophisticated infrared cameras. Although paste-on sensors are cheap and help doctors monitor patients as they move freely, these devices cannot monitor changes in great detail, across the skin. Moreover, they irritate the skin, changing its natural responses. While infrared cameras enable high-precision temperature measurements in high detail across the skin, they are expensive, and require patients to keep still.

 

One of the good example of werable computing in healthcare projects is CuPiD. CuPiD stands for Closed-loop system for personalized and at-home rehabilitation of people with Parkinson's Disease, People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) suffer from motor and cognitive impairments that severely impact mobility, fall risk, and multiple key aspects of functional independence. for more information click on the CuPiD logo.

 

 

As corporations see the benefits and embrace wearable technology, there will be an opportunity to sell or upgrade application firewalls in order to secure companies from malicious attacks. Corporations will need confidence that their application firewalls are both up to the task of stopping unauthorized access and of allowing authorized transactions. The two main ways are in the areas of access and end-point security. Enterprises need to prepare for the main modes of access being WiFi or Bluetooth. In the case of WiFi, careful attention needs to be paid to the infrastructure's ability to cope with the influx. From a security standpoint, gaining oversight and managing the data that goes through the network will be the biggest challenge. Firstly, determining that devices accessing the network or the information being transmitted are legitimate.

 

Scientists are developing wearable computing systems for construction industry and security for onsite workers are the major priorities for them, on the same line Virginia Tech students developed a wearable computing device which would be installed in a helmet to protect construction workers from carbon monoxide poisoning, a serious lethal threat in this industry. For more information regarding this project visit this link.

 

 

The soldier of the future is most likely going to be the protagonist of the practical application of wearable technology. Armed forces from different countries are seeing the solution for many battle field necessities in the so-called ‘wearable computing’ field. These purely military applications are combined with others, which we have been talking about in the mobile health segment mHealth that make it possible to monitor the physical activity and various other parameters of the soldiers condition and detect and resolve any physical or health problems if necessary. An example of this are sensors like the BioHarness, which is integrated in a shirt and measures the stress levels of firemen, soldiers and even astronauts. For combat pilots there are some equally interesting proposals. Raytheon is developing systems for pilots of helicopters and other combat aircraft, which interestingly do not even require the pilots to be inside the aircraft.

 

What makes wearable technology click with today's generation and industrialists are some of the points in the following:

 

Future Trends and Opportunities of Wearable Smart Devices in 2013 and Beyond