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Wearable technology could help us manage our own health but separate us from our doctors as they drown in data.
New tests and drugs have always impacted health care. But completely different kinds of emerging technologies will soon radically alter how health care is both accessed and delivered.
Who says scientists aren’t artistic? A team of researchers have done some amazing kirigami work, an ancient Japanese paper art, using graphene.
As wearables record more personal and physical activity data about us, we risk giving away more than we’d imagine.
If the money is in the cloud, it makes sense to take as many users there as possible.
How many gadgets can we handle before what is supposed to ease and simplify becomes a burden?
I think I have successfully talked my partner out of getting an Apple Watch. I generally do not interfere with his purchase decisions, but the description of the Apple Watch’s features, or those of any…
Our internet use is tracked by cookies and clicks, but smartwatches will listen to our body to sense how we feel.
Apple sets out its stall for a Watch for every wrist and health monitoring for every wearer.
We can already track plenty of body data, but to really make a difference, wearables need to consistently collect clinically valuable information that can be used to improve health.
Though set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” it isn’t hard to see in the Star Wars films a vision of our own not so distant future. But Anthony Jones, a physician with a long background in health…
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…
An app that can unlock your front door with a digital key and the latest wearable sex tech OhMiBod are just some of the next generation of high-tech gadgets and devices on display this week at the International…
Were you to wander around Las Vegas this week you’d be in for a surprise – the usual office-weary conference goers have been replaced by the sparkling spectacle of technology replete with Silicon Valley…
Beyond simply counting steps, fitness tracking technology creates personal black boxes that archive everything we do – even sleeping. So it’s not surprising to see that a Calgary law firm, representing…
With the likes of Google Glass, Fitbit, and Emotiv wearables are now a familiar concept. Perhaps less known is that animals have been fitted with wearable technology for decades. For example, in the 1960s…
There has been a lot of hype in the media about how wearable tech will help you to live longer. At the forefront of this is the Apple iWatch, which the company characterises as a comprehensive health and…
Rumours are surfacing that Microsoft will launch its own smartwatch in the next few weeks. Given that Microsoft Windows Phone accounts for just 2.5% of the world smartphone market, the watch will work…
The age of the wearable is fast upon us, and many of the new products we’re going to see in the next 12 months will be all about health and happiness. The New York Times recently predicted that soon some…
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Professor of Sociology (retired), Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor of Research, Embodied Design and Wearable Futures, University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor of Health and Sport Science, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Design Interactions, Lancaster University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Professorial Lead, University of South Australia
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Honorary Consul; Adjunct Professor; Digital Investigations Consultant and Senior Lecturer., University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Research officer, Australian National University
