Wearables and smartwatches can track your pulse – but if you’re using them to scan for irregular heart rhythms, there are some things you should know.
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More and more people are incorporating wearable devices like smartwatches into their lives. But these wearables are a driving distraction that the public and law enforcement should be aware of.
Even half the amount of steps shows health benefits.
The use of online health platforms is on the rise, allowing us to track and share our personal data. While such platforms have promise, significant scientific, ethical and privacy questions remains.
Each device is complex in its own right, and trying to use them together in many different settings makes things even more complicated.
Research shows that people’s social networks, employment conditions and life stages all impact their use of wearable devices. Understanding these factors can help you achieve your fitness goals.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
Technology that wouldn’t look out of place in a Hollywood spy movie is being marketed at students to help them cheat in exams.
Our internet use is tracked by cookies and clicks, but smartwatches will listen to our body to sense how we feel.
Smartwatches will bombard us with data about our internal lives. We risk letting sleep patterns, calorie counts and bio-rhythms dominate our days.
The announcement that Google is to halt sales of its Google Glass augmented-reality spectacles has been interpreted by some people as the end of a pilot project and the start of a new phase of product…
Samsung has had a mixed relationship with wearable technology to date but an announcement this week may put it ahead of the crowd. The South Korean firm made an early bid on the market with smartwatches…
Less than a year after the launch of the Galaxy S4 smartphone – and the battery issues that came with it – the Samsung Galaxy S5 was one of a host of offerings the electronics giant presented to the World…
This week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has offered up a veritable smörgåsbord of wearable technology. We’ve seen devices of all kinds to tempt us into this new age. So now is the time to decide…
My Dad used to say that if he had a pocket somewhere on his skin he’d keep a torch in it. I thought it was weird at the time but as my eyesight has dimmed, I get what he was on about. Now it’s a mobile…
The tech wars took a major swerve into the leftfield this week. No longer content with updating their phone offerings, companies have come over all James Bond in the hope of hitting upon the next big innovation…
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Professor Emeritus, The University of Queensland
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Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
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SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
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Professor of Sociology (retired), Lancaster University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCL
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Professor of Digital Life, Bangor University
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Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor - Information and Communications Technology, CQUniversity Australia
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Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Senior Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University of Toronto
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SUNY Distinguished Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
