Wearable smart devices have many years of development history, ideas and prototypes have appeared in the 1960s, and devices with the form of wearable smart devices appeared in the 70s and 80s, Steve Mann based on the Apple-II 6502 computer prototype of wearable computers that is representative of this.
With the rapid development of standardized computer hardware and software, as well as Internet technology, the form of wearable smart devices has begun to diversify, and has gradually demonstrated significant research value and application potential in many fields such as industry, healthcare, military, education, and entertainment.
At the academic research level, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Tokyo's School of Engineering, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) all have specialized laboratories or research groups focusing on wearable smart devices, and have a number of innovative patents and technologies.
And Chinese scholars also conducted research on wearable smart devices in the late 1990s.
In the area of organizations and related activities, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) established the Wearable IT Technical Committee, and set up a column on wearable computing in several academic journals.
The international academic conference on wearable smart devices, IEEE ISWC, has been held for 18 times since it was first held in 1997.
With the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, three national academic conferences on wearable computing have been held under the auspices of the Chinese Computer Society, the Chinese Society of Automation, and the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence.
In addition, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and China's National 863 Program have supported a number of R&D projects on wearable smart devices.
The Apple Watch or Google Glass will become part of the human body, like the skin, like the arm.
In the farther future, the phone may only need to implant a chip into the human body, and Siri will be able to help you directly through the conversation to make phone calls, to help you order restaurants, to understand all of your privacy, and the degree of intimacy with you is even more than your family - may be Google Glass and Apple Watch are no longer implanted in the human body, they are chips. They have become part of the human body's genes and can participate in human reproduction and evolution.
The intent of wearable smart devices is to explore new ways of interacting with people and technology, and to provide exclusive, personalized services for each person, while the computing method of the device should undoubtedly be based on localized computing - only then can we accurately locate and sense each user's personalized, unstructured data, and form a unique, personalized experience for each person on their mobile device. Only in this way can we accurately locate and sense each user's personalized, unstructured data, and form a unique and exclusive data calculation result on each person's mobile device, and in this way, we can find the real meaningful needs directly to the user's heart, and ultimately, through the rules of touching with the center of the calculation, we can carry out a variety of specific target ***.
Wearable smart devices have moved from fantasy to reality, and their emergence will change the way modern people live.
By 2016, the global market for wearable smart devices will reach $6 billion.
In order to occupy a favorable leading position, the world's leading companies have taken the lead in blowing the horn.
In the first two to three years on the market, this is an unassuming niche, but in the next three to five years, this sector will generate significant revenues.
There will be 70 million internet-enabled wearable smart devices sold in 2017, up from 15 million in 2013.
Most of such devices on the market are exercise monitoring devices from sports and health brands.
But in February 2013, a source revealed that Apple created an R&D team to test the waters of this battlefield, and in March, Samsung also said it was developing a smartwatch.