The segment of wearable technology is booming, but if you’re actively using a smart watch, you are producing more data than you are probably aware of. Data that hackers find very attractive. When we say that wearables are booming, it is not an overstatement. It is reportedly already producing an estimated $14 billion in sales worldwide – and is expected to to more than double within the next four years.
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Microscale wireless circuits may be definite game changers for wearable IoT
Nowadays, wearable devices are everyday and mostly hard to get excited about, as useful as they are beyond their vanity features. Once in a while, however, a potential game-changer comes in with a proof of concept that makes an impression…
Read moreHuman skull joins the ranks of biometric authenticators for smart devices
User privacy and data security is a long-standing issue with everything connected, and even more so now that we carry and wear more data-sponges than we ever did. PIN codes and passwords are still the go-to way of securing one’s information, but it is safe to say that biometric identifiers…
Read moreE-skin just got skinnier
Big news came a few days ago from the University of Tokyo, where researchers created ultrathin, ultraflexible protective layer, which was then used for creating air stable organic light-emitting diode (OLED). While OLED technology is already consumer available, the protective layer…
Read moreBridging healthcare and personal technology
Frank Hopfgartner is a lecturer in Information Studies at University of Glasgow, and he co-organizes NTCIR-LifeLog, a shared evaluation task[…]
Read moreWearable Computing Going Green
One of the six Best Papers awarded at CHINACOM 2015, on August 2015 in Shanghai, was presented by a team[…]
Read moreBenjamin Mandler’s IoT Forecast: 'A context-rich paradise of data'
IoT industry veteran, Benny Mandler, (IBM and COMPOSE), shares his predictions for the future of IoT in EAI’s novel research[…]
Read moreDr. Lo, SWIT-Health 2015: 'Smart watches could transform our lives'
Apart from being a Hamlyn Fellow, and a Non-Clinical Lecturer in Medical Robotics at the Department of Surgery and Cancer[…]
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