Wearable Devices - Post Your Ideas Here
Forget the Internet of Things (IoT), wearable electronics will be the next big thing. Join Intel and become a market leader too.Post your ideas and projects here as a contribution (or on a separate page). The best ideas and projects will be taken to the next level. Publish in Elektor Magazine and see Lady Gaga wear your design!
Forget the Internet of Things (IoT), wearable electronics will be the next big thing. Join Intel and become a market leader too.
Post your ideas and projects here as a contribution (or on a separate page). The best ideas and projects will be taken to the next level. Publish in Elektor Magazine and see Lady Gaga wear your design!
Discussion (6 comments)
JohnHind 9 years ago
This is a wearable for social events that is programmed with a profile of the wearer's tastes and interests. When two devices come into proximity (or perhaps on body contact using electrical signalling) the devices work together to assess and indicate compatability. Indication might be quite subtle such as haptic feedback or a polychrome LED or it might be ribald or comic such as sound effects and kinetic light shows.
I envisage this as being loaned out at events (and it could then double as a ticket) and programmed via a questionaire either on a website before the event or at a booth in the venue. With a specialised booth, the physiological response to visual (and maybe auditory) stimulii could be measured and used to create a profile objectively that was not vulnerable to subversion by deception (self or deliberate).
ClemensValens 9 years ago
JohnHind 9 years ago
JohnHind 9 years ago
Seems to me that the 'killer app' for wearables is the universal identity bracelet:
1. If removed from the wrist either by un-clasping or cutting its band it locks down until subsequently re-clasped and unlocked using a smartphone app.
2. It has NFC for contactless payments.
3. It can unlock your home and car.
4. It can lock/unlock and proximity tether your phone and laptop.
5. It works with a password manager program to authenticate you securely to web sites.
6. It can securely contain medical alert information readible by emergency responders.
7. It can proximity tether you to another bracelet (for example for child minding).
I envisage a device with no user interface except for a haptic alert. It is configured using a smartphone app. Therefore it can have very long battery life and can be relatively inexpensive.
JN 10 years ago
Hi Clemens,
one of the most simple wearables: A smartwatch-like module which can display small text messages sent out by an Android-Smartphone by Bluetooth.
We need:
Low-Power MCU
small text display (OLED?)
small formfactor Bluetooth module
Power supply with battery
Applications which would be useful:
Showing (next) appointments ((on a fair, with booth number and time))
Showing incoming SMS textmessages
Showing text messages of the Elektor messenger server (will come soon)
An Android App would be the fine, where you can enter messages and the time to be shown on your Android-Display.
I know that there are similar products on the market but it would be fun if the Elektor community would have their own, complete open source version.
Background like OLED-display, power saving microcontroller modes, battery-powered supplies and so on could be offered in a series of Elektor articles.
ClemensValens 10 years ago
Vu l'avènement de l'informatique cognitive, plus les wearables, je pense qu'un papillon virtuel sur l'épaule est approprié : on pourrait lui parler, il nous répondrait... ;-)
In English: Given the advent of cognitive computing and now also wearables, I think a virtual butterfly on the shoulder is appropriate: we could talk to it, it would reply... ;-)
Regards,
Michel Demey
Jaime G.-Arintero 10 years ago
It doesn't matter how far we go with wearables... we'll never beat David Hasselhoff's jacket...
NECV20 10 years ago
I still have a CMPS03 laying around somewhere.
The idea is to mount it to a cap with two bi-color leds and a uC.
The colors change if you move your head from left to right, or better said, from north to south.
Looking north you get two green leds, looking south they both are red. Looking east you get green at your left eye and red at your right eye. Looking west, it is the other way around. The intensity of the colors adjust according to the position of your head.
Walking around with the cap, you see the world through a colored haze of the earth's gravity field.