Healthcare, Storage Experts Discuss Privacy, Security Issues and Availability of Timely Patient Information On Device, On Premise, On Cloud

The healthcare industry is on the verge of significant change in the way practitioners will monitor, treat and care for our increasingly connected population. It is an industry that is expected to represent more than $120B in wearables and mobile devices and storage sales over the next five years. To explore the potential, challenges and opportunities for mobile healthcare, Edward Zabrek M.D., Founder of mHealth Advisors and a practicing physician, will moderate a panel of industry experts on August 6 at the Flash Memory Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Several years ago, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers created a technology-enhanced glove that can teach beginners how to play piano melodies in 45 minutes. Now they've advanced the same wearable computing technology to help people learn how to read and write Braille. The twist is that people wearing the glove don't have to pay attention. They learn while doing something else.

Researchers have been studying wearable computing for 20 years. Experts in the areas of computer science, electrical engineering, augmented reality, psychology and even fashion have worked together to build and test applications and invent technologies. Potential users of wearable computing have been involved, too, helping to discover how to apply wearable computing concepts to the "real world." The technology's potential reaches many areas - manufacturing, health and wellness, architecture and public safety and entertainment, just to name a few.

Microsoft, Jawbone and D-Link join 35 existing hardware partners in aggressive expansion, including lower prices, more powerful hub and broad retail rollout to over 500 stores

Staples, one of the world's largest internet retailers, today announced a series of major expansions of its home and office automation platform Staples Connect, including a 500 store rollout, new pricing for the Staples Connect Hub, and collaborations with Microsoft, Jawbone, and D-Link. Staples is also the first retailer to announce the integration of wearable technology to its platform.

The novel design integrates multiple sensors, a Bluetooth® LE IC, and low power sensor hub microcontroller into a compact, lightweight form factor

ROHM Semiconductor has recently announced the development of a versatile wearable key device that provides unprecedented functionality, from counting the number of steps taken, estimating the number of calories consumed, and calculating distance to performing lock/unlock operation (via gesture control), detecting small metallic objects (i.e. for food inspection), and monitoring UV exposure. It can even determine when the wearer is walking up/down stairs, on a bicycle, or riding in a train or car.

Expands robust intellectual property portfolio to advance the accuracy and potential for next-generation applications of performance biometric data sensors for wearables

• QuickLogic-developed "Tap-to-Wake" and "Rotate-Wrist-To-Wake" gesture algorithms to support wearable devices
• Available with QuickLogic's out-of-the-box S1 Wearables Catalog CSSP and ArcticLink® 3 S1 sensor hub platforms, and designed with forward compatibility to silicon platform roadmap

• Catalog Sensor Hub enables new fitness & health applications
• Integrated gesture recognition optimized for wearables use cases

New Design Showcases Thin and Comfortable, One-Size-Fits-All Armband
Thalmic Labs today reveals the final design for its gesture control device, the Myo armband. The state-of-the-art industrial design is a thin, expandable band, which is nearly half the thickness of the Myo Alpha units that were given to select developers and partners over the past six months.

Drone images transferred in real time to rescue workers on the ground

At the end of May 2014, Epson and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), an independent organization, conducted tests in the city of Sakaide in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, to explore the feasibility of a new post-disaster rapid-response system that combines the partners' respective cutting-edge technologies.

First of four projects chosen to enable development of nano-bio devices for the U.S. Air Force

The Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium (NBMC) has selected a proposal by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to develop a wearable sensor patch subsystem as its first project in its mission to develop human performance-monitoring electronics.

App addresses key challenges of wearables industry by providing habit forming challenges, social motivation and goal reinforcement