A report on Wearable Devices, by Federico Demartini - Creative Technologist at Alquimia WRG.

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Friday, 16th May 2014
Federico Demartini
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3. Wearable Devices
if it fits, wear it!

4. Wearable Devices
Phenomenal cosmic powers itty bitty living space!
A re y ou dreami ng for a watch a ble to prevent your seasonal af fective
disorder?
Do y ou want to make something f ly pointing at with your fi ng er?
Is yo ur hidden imperati ve to av oid a ny int eractio n with th e keyboard and/or
the trackpad?
Do y ou de sire a jacket measuring your hear t rate w hile you’re tra ining?
Do y ou want to divide wa ter by water w ith a simple gesture?
Do y ou wa nt to look a t the pan orama gett ing info about w hat are sur rounding
you?

5. Wearable Devices
Phenomenal cosmic powers itty bitty living space!
Wea ra b le s a re now a big tren ds thank s to the av aila bility of a whole set of
eco nomic, reliable a nd scalable technological solutions.
E-Ink Paper
Arduino co mpatibl e
wearable compo nents
Intel Edison Proce sso r
Electric Paint

6. Wearable Devices
Phenomenal cosmic powers itty bitty living space!
Examples?
Su ng l a sse s sugges ti ng you the w ay to the best mojito in Miami Beach area,
play an in visible piano wi th a pair of fashiona ble g loves, a ja cket m onito ring
your hear t rate or any other bo dy parameter.
Mor eove r, wearable devices live at the intersection o f techno lo gy a nd
ever yday life, they s eems able to tra nsfo r m dreams in reality.
Wea ra b le t echnology w ill have as much of an i mpact as the smar tpho ne
revolution did a few years ago.

7. Wearable Devices
Phenomenal cosmic powers itty bitty living space!
E ver y one c onside r them the future, because the y are about making people better.
Fir ms .
!
Doz e ns of f ir m s a re
sha ping t he vendors
lan dsc a pe for those
p r oduc ts.
A gencies.
!
Digital agencies will
be required to
design solutions on
new devices. May
someone w ill
directly ask to
design new devices.
Customer Base.
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40 million f itness
weara ble devices
sold in 2013, 180
million expected in
2017.
Big Players.
!
There’s no Big
Players out of thi s
game.

8. Wearable Devices
Rings
Rin g
Sh or tcut Ever ything .
Fin
A trendy gadget you can wear make your palm a s a digita l touch inter fa ce.
FingerReader
A we arable device th at assists in reading pr inted text.

9. Ring
Shortcut Everything
Ring wil l be a Wearable Input Dev i c e tha t l ets y ou control anything. Gesture control, text
transmission, payme nt, a nd more!
https://ww w.kick sta r ter.co m/pro jects/17616 70 73 8/rin g-shor tcut-ever ything

10. Fin
Make your palm as a digital touch interface.
Fin is one of the To p 15 s tar tups in the world at TechCr unch Hardware Battlefield 2014.
http://w ww.wea r f in.c om/

11. FingerReader
A wearable device that assists in reading printed text.
The Augmented Senses Gr o up focuses on exploring th e way of creating enabling human-computer
inter faces. Fing erR eader i s one of their projects.
http://v imeo.co m/8 6912 300

12. Wearable Devices
Bracelets
FitBit
F itbit makes it eas y to track activity, sync stats , s ee trends and r each g o a ls.
Mof f
Ever y thing you do. Ever ything you hold. Change into toys .

13. FitBit
Makes it easy to track activity.
NPD now says Fi tbi t has 77% of the market for full-body activity trackers despite potent
competition from J awb one, Nike’s F uelband
http://ww w.f i tbit.c om/

14. Moff
Everything you do. Everything you hold. Change into toys.
When you wea r Mof f's wearable device on your wrist , it responds to interaction with your gestures.
http://v imeo.co m/8 738 0174

15. Wearable Experiments
Wearable Experiment s (We:eX) is a socially driven wearable technology
company. Its mission is to bring together fas hion and technology with a
func t io nal design aest hetic, and use creative problem solving to help us live
well and have a better quality of life.

16. Wearable Experiments
Aler t Shir t - In collaboration with FOX, We :eX designed a fan j er sey that uses
wearable techn ology to take the experience into the physi c al wo r ld, allowi ng
fans to feel w hat th e players feel live as it happ ens dur i ng the game
http://wearable expe riments.com/aler t-shir t/

17. Wearable Experiments
Navigate - Wear able E xperiments has collabo rated with THE UNLIMITED
MAGAZINE to tel l th e stor y of how to NAVIGATE in New York City. "May The
Jacke t Be You r Gu ide" is the f irst ever edito rial entirely dedicated to
wearable techn ology.
http://wearable expe riments.com/navigate/

18. Wearable Experiments
F un dawear - A new inn ovation which keeps c ou ples connected even they’re
apar t! Design ed for Du rex, F undawear allows personal touch to be
trans fer red fr om a smar tphone app to a pa r tner anywhere in the world.
http://wearab lee xperi ments .com/fundawear/

19. Studio XO
St udio XO operates at the intersection of s ci ence, technology, fashion &
mu sic. T hey devel op technologies & pr oducts that capture intimate
physiological data, revealing emotional inter actions.

20. Studio XO
VOL ANTIS - Th e f irst f lying dress for Lady Gaga.
Is a remote- piloted h over vehicle capable o f c ar r ying a sing le passenger. It
was designed by Stu dio XO and constr ucted by TechHaus, the Haus of Gaga's
technology bran ch .
https ://www. you tub e. com/watch?v=RjrhxNsxq60

21. The SubPac
The most immersive sound experience you will ever have
SubPac is a pate nt-pendi ng tactile audio technology – it transfers low frequencies directly to your
body and provi des you wi th a new physical dimension to the music experience.
http://w ww.thesubpac .com /

22. SunSprite
Personal Light Tracker
F irst so lar -powe re d pe rsonal sun exposure tracker, SunSprite is your personal energy coach, sending
you aler ts an d notif ic ati ons to keep you on track.
http://w ww.sunsprite .com

23. vrAse
Turn your smartphone into a huge 3D screen
vrAse is a spe ci ally de signed case to enable you to wat ch movies, play games and experiment
Augmen ted R ea lity.
http://ww w.v rase.c om/

24. Wearable Devices
Phenomenal cosmic powers itty bitty living space!
We ar able devices are n ot matter of your perso nal intere st in visionar y
a pplic a tions of nanotechnology or in more simple tra ining monitoring.
T hey ar e par t of your life because they are empowering hum an ab ility a nd
cha ngin g th e way you will approach our da ily a ctiv ity in the next future.
Th ey ar e alr ead y on the stage: ever y device is showing its potential and tr ying to
win over an ar med-and-ready g roup of competitors.

25. Wearable Devices
PowerXtreme
https ://ww w.yo utub e.co m/watch ?v=vOrAfR b1 -bQ

26. Keep Quiet Please.

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