Category: Wearables

Murata smart Glasses, Sabae X Murata, to control home appliances

Posted by – February 24, 2016

Smart glasses are a big draw for Murata: the sunglasses shown here are to be used to control home appliances. The company representative demonstrates the switching of a light on or off using controls mounted on the side of the glasses, where they would rest on the ears, along the side. It features Bluetooth, pressure sensor and Infrared.

For more information visit : www.murata.com/

Sony crowdfunded Wena Smartwatch

Posted by – February 24, 2016

The Wena Wrist is a smart watch that offers notifications through vibrations and a small LED light on the band, wallet payment compatible with the Japan-only Felica standard, and can go for as long as a week between charges. The watch itself is a typical analogue watch (available with a chronograph face) and so it can go on for much longer. The wena wrist charges through its own proprietary cradle.

For more information visit : first-flight.sony.com/pj/5/wenawrist

ARM Cortex-A32

Posted by – February 24, 2016

ARM Cortex-A32 is the most power efficient 32bit processor, 25% more efficient than ARM Cortex-A7 (performance per mW) in the same process node. ARM Cortex-A32 takes advantage of the ARMv8-A instruction set, it is designed to be the smallest, lowest-power 32bit processor to bring efficiency and architectural improvements to next generation rich embedded 32bit applications, to drive innovation across diverse embedded markets including wearables, consumer, industrial, and IoT. You can read more about it at: https://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a32-processor.php

Makuake crowd funded the Sony FES E Ink watch

Posted by – February 19, 2016

Makuake is the Japanese crowd funding website similar to Kickstarter, they have shipped the FES E Ink watch designed by a Sony department.

Rockchip RKi6000 Ultra Low Power WiFi

Posted by – February 18, 2016

Rockchip RKi6000 (previously filmed here) offers an Ultra-low Power Consumption WiFi solution, even lower power than Bluetooth. Rockchip promotes it as their ideal solution for low power wearble devices that remain always connected on-line without always waking up the main SoC. As well as for tablet, phone, laptop and IoT.

EMS shows MIMO Baby by Rest Devices, Wins Best Commercialization Award at the IDTechEx Show!

Posted by – February 18, 2016

Engineered Materials Systems won “Best Commercialization Award” at IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA. This award was given for the use of their stretchable conductive ink in the successful commercial product MIMO Baby, made by Rest Devices. Rest Devices developed breakthrough wearable technology that combined capacitive sensing, blue tooth transmission of real-time biological data, and a clever way to integrate chip and power. What they lacked was a conductive ink that would meet their requirements of soft, stretchable and durable. Engineered Materials Systems submitted their flagship silver conductive ink, CI-1036 which worked very well according to Rest Devices engineers and was a key enabler to commercialization of MIMO Baby. CI-1036 is applied to proprietary film and insulated with a proprietary top-coat. This combination is reported by Rest Devices to withstand 90 wash/dry cycles of the MIMO Baby kimono with the failure mode not due to the conductive circuitry. Engineered Materials Systems, Inc. (EMS, Inc). is a global manufacturer of conductive inks, insulators, conductive adhesives for the printed electronics market. EMS has developed a highly stretchable/ flexible conductive ink for wearable electronics. For more information see http://emsadhesives.com/ and http://www.IDTechEx.com

Sensoria Smart Socks, coaching runners

Posted by – February 18, 2016

Interview with Sensoria at the IDTechEx Wearable USA event. Sensoria’s vision is The Garment is The Computer. Headquartered in Redmond, (WA) Sensoria Inc. is a developer of IoE (Internet of Everyone) wearable solutions that improve people’s lives. Sensoria’s proprietary e-textile sensor platform enables Sensoria powered garments to deliver actionable information to health and fitness users in real-time. For more information see http://www.sensoriafitness.com/ and http://www.IDTechEx.com

ARM mbed IoT device platform

Posted by – February 17, 2016

ARM mbed OS is an open source embedded operating system for IoT for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers that can be used to power smart cities, smart homes and wearables. mbed OS accelerates the time to market by providing a core operating system, robust security foundations, standards based communication capabilities, and drivers for sensors, I/O devices and connectivity. mbed OS is built as a modular, configurable software stack to readily customize it to devices being developed for, and reduce memory requirements by excluding unnecessary software components. mbed OS forms the client-side portion of the mbed IoT Device Platform on microcontrollers, and is designed to work in concert with mbed Device Connector, mbed Device Server, and mbed Client. Together this platform delivers comprehensive IoT solutions.

Moto 360 2nd gen Android Wear Smartwatch

Posted by – February 7, 2016

The new moto 360 smartwatch with impressive upgrade features to the previous version has customized straps, improved resolution, 2 days longer lasting battery, bigger dial, for sale in tge US and in other parts of the world. For more information look into http://www.motorola.in/products/moto-360

Brainco Focus1, Wireless Brain Wave Detector,Translate Your Brainewaves to Electronics Signals

Posted by – February 6, 2016

BrainCo Focus1 is a headband with a wirelss EEG(Electroencephalography) brain wave detector inside can translate your brainwaves into electronic signals, you can turn the light on or off just by focusing on it. These signals can been used to control objects like prosthetic hand.BrainCo’s products can be applied to improve life quality like attention improvement, sleep management, smart home control etc. BrainCo is designed by a group of scientists from Harvard and MIT. Estimate retail price will be less than $200 for BrainCo headband focus 1 and prosthetic hand, mass production probably ready in end of 2016.

ili Real-time Wearable Translator without WiFi/3G/4G

Posted by – February 3, 2016

Japanese Company ili shows the wearable translator on CES2016, don’t need Wi-Fi, 3G/4G or other Internet connection, just speak and press the button, you can get the real-time transaltion.The 1st generation will be ready on Q2 2016 with English, Japanese, Chinese conversation supported, next generation will have French, Thai, Korean; Spanish, Italian, Arabic will be ready in 3nd generation.

Ohmatex world’s thinnest USB Cable and Astronaut Monitoring Kits

Posted by – January 25, 2016

Interview with Ohmatex at IDTechEx Wearable USA. Ohmatex develops products and solutions for integrating electronics into textile. Ohmatex products include textile cabling and washable connectors which provide conductivity and connectivity for smart garments and wearable devices. Ohmatex currently has a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a garment with NIRS (Near Infra-Red) and EMG sensors to monitor leg muscle activity during astronaut training. In 2012 Ohmatex developed a medical compression stocking that measures changes in leg volume for patients suffering from edema (fluid retention) of the lower limbs. For more information see http://www.ohmatex.dk and http://www.IDTechEx.com

Ortiz Industry Smart Clothing

Posted by – January 21, 2016

Claire Ortiz, CEO of Ortiz Industry talks at the IDTechEx Wearable USA event about their integration of advanced materials for performance apparel, including a performance sports shirt with zoned cooling and lactic acid control with incorporated printed electronics silver paste sensors working with DuPont and others to integrate smart functionalities into clothing. For more information see http://ortizindustry.com/ and http://www.IDTechEx.com

Lumo Smart Pants analyse running

Posted by – January 13, 2016

Lumo Bodytech present the Lumo Run smart shorts, partnering with elite runners to improve training by collecting and analyzing their individual digital signatures in running using advanced wearables technology. Lumo Bodytech’s apparel embedded wearable biomechanics sensor technology leverages sensors, algorithms, big data and coaching in real-time to gain deeper insight on human movement, this wearable technology can facilitate behavior change and help improve individuals quality of life.

Fraunhofer IIS Bluetooth Smartwatch Powered by Human Wrist Thermal Harvesting

Posted by – January 13, 2016

Mr Peter Spies from Fraunhofer IIS presents human heat powered smartwatch prototype at Energy Harvesting & Storage USA exhibition, part of the IDTechEx Show! Founded in 1985, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, Germany, ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning headcount and revenues. Fraunhofer IIS is the main inventor of mp3 and universally credited with the co-development of AAC audio coding standard. In close cooperation with partners and clients the Institute provides research and development services in the following areas: Audio and video source coding, multimedia realtime systems, digital radio broadcasting and digital cinema systems, integrated circuits and sensor systems, design automation, wireless, wired and optical networks, localization and navigation, imaging systems and industrial X-ray technology, highspeed cameras, medical sensor solutions and supply chain services. For more information see http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/ and http://www.IDTechEx.com

Omron Wrist BPM Smartwatch takes blood pressure on the wrist

Posted by – January 5, 2016

Omron is the worldwide leader in selling home blood pressure monitors for consumers to use by themselves, Omron Project Zero Upper Arm is a blood pressure monitor where everything is integrated, you put it on your arm, press start and in about 30 seconds it measures your blood pressure and synchronizes it to your smartphone or tablet. Then Omron releases their Omron Bloor Pressure Smartwatch with steps, calories burnt, distance and sleep monitoring, it can measure the blood pressure through the radial artery in the wrist, it inflates a little bit to measure the blood pressure on the wrist also within about 30 seconds by just pushing a button, making it easy to take ones blood pressure directly on the wrist! The price is going to be below $200 for release in 2016.

Lembird Free3 MTK6572 3G Smart Watch Android4.4

Posted by – December 22, 2015

Lembird Free3 is an Android Smart Watch with IP65 waterproof, powered by Mediatek Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, runs Android 4.4,comes with 1.4’’ circular AMOLED touch screen at 400*400 resolution, with SIM card slot it can support 3G network and use as WiFi hot spot. With bluetooth4.0, It support vibration notification from incoming call. It also support hear rate monitor, step counting, distance tracking, energy consumption record, sleep depth monitoring and analysis from the customized apps. With 400mAH battery inside, battery life up to 2 days with display always on. Lembird Free3 shipped with 2 version, 512MB RAM,4G Flash or 1G RAM 8G Flash, with leather, metal or rubber different stylish bracelet.

You can contact Lembird here:(Please let them know if you watch this video)
Darren, General Manager
Darren@lembird.com
Mobile:+86 186 6699 4118

Heremi Kids Tracker, Smart Bracelet Design House Tour: $57 Heremi W7 Kids Smart Watch on MT6261D

Posted by – December 22, 2015

Heremi W7 is a kid smart watch powered by MediaTek MTK6261D ARM Cortex-A7, comes with 0.96’’ OLED screen, with SIM card, TF card reader and bluetooth 3.0, it support phone call with only families, with fire wall inside, it also can block the phone call from strangers. Heremi also designed the customized app for iOS and Android, you can set the families telephone books, see the locations of the kids, it will also alarm you if the kid is away the normal track. Retailer price at $57 from 1pcs MOQ, start shipping from November.

You can contact heremi here: (Please let them know if you watch this video)
Ella Zhang, Sales Manager,
ella@heremi.com.cn
Mobile:+86 180 0250 8281

$30 Heremi R7 Smart Ring with Phone call, Drinking Water and UV Intensity Alert

Posted by – December 4, 2015

Heremi R7 is a smarrt Ring with LED light and small engine inside support flash or vibrate if incoming call from your phone. Heremi R7 also can reminder drinking water and UV intensity by private setting in Heremi custmized app. Battery life up to 7 days, bulk price at $30 for 500pcs.
The Heremi S3 is a Smart Bracelet with 12 LED light to show the time like normal clock. It support all the features of Heremi Smart Ring R7,Battery life up to 3-6 months, bulk price at $35 for 500pcs order.

You can contact heremi here: (Please let them know if you watch this video)
Ella Zhang, Sales Manager,
ella@heremi.com.cn
Mobile:+86 180 0250 8281

UICO duraTOUCH water/sweat/gloves Smartwatches and Phones


UICO duraTOUCH makes it possible to use Smartwatches and Phones in any weather, with sweaty fingers, under the rain, snow, even while wearing gloves in the winter. As people come to depend on wearable devices and use them everywhere, users want touchscreens to work under any weather condition everywhere and anytime. UICO’s duraTOUCH projected capacitive (PCAP) touch controllers enable touch sensing to work in any environment, with rain, sweat, and using gloves also. duraTOUCH out-performs traditional PCAP that is in devices like Moto360 and Samsung Gear Live. It is ideal for wearable and IoT devices with super-low power requirements like 1X charge per week with wake on touch. duraTOUCH products include duraTOUCH controllers, touchscreens, and duraTOUCH Surface, a bendable wrap-able touch sensing surface. Look for this technology in the next generation of consumer electronics and wearable devices, you will now have technology that UICO previously shipped in millions only to customers in the heavy industrial and medical markets.