Wearable technology has gained significant prominence in the consumer electronics market in the past decade. If we talk about wearable technology trends, the global consumer-end spending will be more than $90 Billion with the leading products, smartwatches, ear-worn devices, and head-mounted displays. Additionally, wristbands, smart patches, and smart clothing are acquiring their position in the market too.
However, these are not the only wearables we have. Wearable technology has a lot in the bucket for the customers who love to be smart with smart products.
Some Smart Wearables One Should Know About
This generation is blessed with innovative wearable technology that offers head-to-toe smart products to its customers to lead a smart and healthier life.
1. Smart Glasses
How about clicking a picture from the eyeglasses with a voice command? And scrolling a page or operating a device with mere head movements. Not only this, searching on Google through glasses and getting reminders with a visual on the smart glass whenever seeing a particular thing, and a lot, with smart glasses.
You can buy these smart glasses from online stores or search Google for offline providers.
Features:
- Hands-free image/video capture
- Real-time POV sharing ( see-what-I see communication)
- On-the-spot information access with voice command
- Visual reminders every time a viewer look at a particular object
- Calendar syncing
- Global navigation
- Replying to messages or text with voice dictation
You must be thinking how you didn’t know about such a cool thing? Well, it’s just one product scroll down for many more such wearables.
2. Smart Shirt
Smart clothing developers have come up with the product – Smart shirts using ECG technology to monitor one’s heart rate, breathing, steps, body temperature, peak acceleration, sleep, activity intensity and many more health-related data that may help in understanding one’s overall health. Moreover, doctors can use this data for early diagnosis as well.
If you are a fitness freak and loves to have a gym at home, the smart shirt is the must-have product for you.
This product is easily available on the internet you can order it online.
Features:
- Monitor health data such as heart rate, breathability, steps, body temperature
Sleep monitoring - Analyse activity intensity
- Washable
3. Smart Ring
The smart ring is a revolutionary product in the jewellery industry that comes with a blend of technology and jewellery where a wearable provides health data of a wearer. This bold circular shaped ring has an in-built sensor and NFC chip that are used to track daily activities and support mobile devices to show the gathered data. Indeed it helps in health monitoring but, that’s not the only benefit it offers. One can use it for biometric authentication and contactless payments, and more things.
You will not get this ring conveniently at your nearest jewellery shop. Either order it online or go to an electronic gadgets store near you.
Features:
- Sleep monitoring
- Fitness Track
- Health management
- Contactless payments
- Biometric authentication
- Remote control
- Smart key
4. Smart Belt
Fashion and health are combined both in the innovative wearable. This belt measure all health essentials for weight management such as waist size, physical activities, sitting time, and eating habits. It processes the entire data and suggests the required routine for an individual. To measure all this information, it has sensors at the buckle. Also, it is a chargeable product with a mini USB port on itself.
Smart belts are not yet available worldwide. You will need to check whether it is available in your area or not. The best way to check availability would be to check on popular global e-commerce websites.
Features:
- Waist size measurement
- Step count
- Eating habits tracker
- Sitting time analyser
- Weight management advisor
5. Smartwatches
A popular advantage of smartwatches is health tracking but, that is not the only feature it has. Smartwatches are the ‘phone on the wrist’ wearable device that allows you to set reminders, answer calls, reply to messages, make payments, car access control, location tracking etc.
Sorry, we forgot to tell you, it shows time too. Haha.
Features:
- Fitness tracker
- Physical health monitor
- Voice recorder and assistant
- Bluetooth audio streamer
- Enable contactless payments
- Location tracker
- Gesture controller
- Car access controller
- Information visualiser
6. Smart Socks
Parents always worry about the infant’s heart rate and oxygen levels. Especially, those who have special case children. With smart socks, you can check your kid’s real-time heart rate and oxygen levels, and god forbid something goes wrong, the in-built alarm rings to give you an alert. There are multiple brands available in the market selling these socks.
Features:
- Measures heart rate and oxygen levels
- Alarm notifying system in case of emergency
- Washable socks
- Shows real-time data on the mobile app
These devices help to track your health and make it easy for your doctor to understand your body conditions. There could be a possibility that your doctor may not even ask for any other tests after getting all this fitness and health information.
We can expect that future wearable technology will be a transformation in the medical sciences to understand patients’ daily activities and treat them in a better manner. Till then, let’s be comfortable with these wearables and change our lifestyles.