Category: Wearables
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Startup Spotlight: Nymi, the Wearable that Listens to Your Heart
Apple Watch lets you send your heartbeat to your friends, but this wearable actually does something useful with it. If you’re like me, you have more passwords and logins than you can remember. If you’re on top of things, you’ve got them written down. If you’re proactive, you’ve got them in one of the many […]
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SOMO SOund & MOvement Workshop
Last March I had the pleasure of meeting Loretta Faveri, inventor of SOMO (SOund in MOtion) by SonicWear, a wearable device that turns the body into a musical instrument. When I last featured Loretta, SOMO was in prototyping stages – see the original feature here – and I was captivated. As a musician and dancer I am […]
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Microsoft’s HoloLens Launches us Into a Future of Holographic Computing
“This is all we need to step into the holographic landscape,” says Alex Kipman, head of Kinect at Microsoft. “Today you’re not only going to see that holograms are real, but everyone is going to experience holograms for themselves in our labs.” At today’s Windows 10 brief in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft team leads debuted not only […]
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Startup Spotlight: Ear-O-Smart Smart Earrings
One of the biggest challenges of designing health-focused wearables is making sure that people want to wear them for their looks as much as for their functionality. Fitbit and Jawbone are not known for their style factor – in fact, there are many companies now producing covers and charms to make these wearables, well, wearable. […]
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Startup Spotlight: MeU, a Versatile Wearable Display
This is the information age. We as a society consume information at a faster rate than at any other time in known history, and it’s become kind of a chicken-or-egg scenario: which came first, the demand for information or the supply? Either way, devices that deliver information quickly, easily and in bite-sized packets are seizing […]
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How to Wear a Fitbit With Any Outfit Part 2: Bytten
A few months ago I wrote a post called “How to Wear a Fitbit With Any Outfit,” featuring fabric Fitbit covers by a Canadian company, Design.UX. I have since renamed that post to be part one in a series, because I discovered another company with a different take on dressing up Fitbit Flexes (and Jawbone […]
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Startup Spotlight: Heddoko, the Personal Trainer Undergarment
Heddoko, the first product from Montreal startup of the same name, is a smart compression undergarment that tracks your movement and visualizes your body in 3D in order to provide you with live training feedback and guide you towards optimal physical performance. It’s basically the personal trainer you always wanted, but could never commit to. Sensors […]
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FuelWear, the First Smart Heated Undergarment
As the cold weather creeps in and wintry days loom closer, layering will come into style then fade into more of a necessity than a fashion statement. Especially for us Canadians who have to endure the harsh winters of the north, keeping body heat up in the outdoors is an important part of a happy […]
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How SENSOREE’s Biometric Fashion Makes Your Mood a Conversationalist
You’ve seen fashion-tech, you’ve seen health-tech, but have you seen all three in one? SENSOREE‘s mood sweater – yes, you read that right! – began as a research project to make a wearable technology for people with ADHD and autism, conditions that are both heavily connected to emotional state. Unlike the heat-sensitive mood rings that […]
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How to Wear a Fitband With Any Outfit Part 1: Design.UX
NOTE: For part 2 in this series, see How to Wear a Fitband With Any Outfit Part 2: Bytten. Fitbits, Jawbones, and Fuelbands have taken their places on our wrists and changed the way we track our fitness. Having a fitband makes it fun to take the stairs, walk to work, and take the long way […]
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