What is the future of tech digital products? It's smart sneakers that can be worn on your feet, smart watches that can be worn on your wrist, smart glasses that can be worn on the bridge of your nose to show you another world, and TWS headphones that hang in your ears to give you a wireless audio experience. They have a unified name, called "smart wearable devices". Along with the continuous updating of smart device technology, the functions of wearable devices are now developing in a diversified direction. Today, let's talk about it!
Smart watches/smart bracelets/smart rings
Smart watches and bracelets should be the kind of wearable devices that we see most in our daily life. Their functions are added to monitoring data, measuring heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, pedometer, calling, texting, music and so on, in addition to watching time. In the future development of technology, smartwatches will be infused with more physiological features and high-tech content. In the automotive field, smart watches can be used to unlock car doors, interconnect with in-vehicle systems, learn about car conditions, mileage, refueling, associated multimedia, etc., to realize real-time communication between cars and people, and in addition, it can be combined with facial recognition technology to remind passengers to pay attention to driving safety.
AR/VR/MR head-mounted all-in-one
Smart glasses are also typical of smart wearables, and the functions in the Iron Man glasses in the Marvel Universe are also expected to be fully realized in the future. AR glasses are injected with face recognition, and you can know who you are by sweeping them, which makes it easy for law enforcement officers to quickly identify criminals in the crowd, blink to take a picture, and immersive gameplay under VR glasses, video calls, viewing maps, reading emails, location, headphones, etc. In the automotive field, with automotive smart glasses, drivers don't have to keep looking at the dashboard, location and other information. Currently, it is mainly oriented to the education, medical, retail, aerospace and even military fields, and the consumer-grade market is dominated by audio-visual entertainment, which still needs to be further cultivated.
In recent years, the wearable market has been growing rapidly due to the increasing demand for connectivity between people, places and things. Smart wearables are the best example of integrating advanced technology towards items such as eyewear, bracelets, clothes and watches. It is important to consider that many of these wearables are used for health purposes, monitoring people's health data. The growing demand for heartbeat monitoring, the need for daily activity monitoring and rising health awareness are driving the smart wearables market.
What wearables are available now?
Wearables can now be broadly categorized into four types.
Smartphone school - representative: GalaxyGear, SmartWatch
As a mobile device function to supplement, must be used in conjunction with smartphones and other devices.
Integrated Intelligence - Representative: GoogleGlass
These devices also need to be connected to the phone, but they are more powerful and independent.
Human health detection school - representative figures: JawboneUp, Nike + series products
How many steps today? How was your sleep? How many calories burned in a game of basketball? It's these devices that specialize.
Human Health Interventionists - Representatives: OrCam, bebionic3 bionic hand, EVERY cervical spine ring
OrCam is a wearable device that allows visually impaired people to read and move around freely, and bebionic3 is a bionic hand that can be worn by people with limbs. Bionic hand, the role of such products is to provide direct intervention in the human body, has achieved the effect of improving the current state of the human body.
Mystery school - iwatch
In fact, iwatch is not necessarily a watch, it is likely to be Apple TV?
New wearable patent: what does a foldable curved screen smart bracelet look like?
The patent's foldable display is a sight to behold. Design drawings show the bracelet appearing as a curved block, capable of wrapping around the wrist or opening up and flattening out to interact with apps like a smartphone.
According to foreign media reports on Oct. 16, people recently discovered one of Samsung's latest wearable device patents - a foldable smart bracelet - on the PatentlyMobile patent website.
Samsung is a very competitive company in the wearable device market. Like other companies, Samsung so far still adhere to the use of minimalist design concepts, focusing on highlighting the features of the band and screen, such as Samsung released a new smartwatch GearSport. and this very special patent product reflects Samsung's ambitious.
Based on the patent design image, it is difficult to see Samsung for the specific design of the product. The design of the patented image only provides the USPTO with an overview of the product's appearance as well as its functionality, and doesn't necessarily have much impact on the design concept.
While Samsung has said that it will officially launch a foldable smartphone in 2018. But it's worth noting that Samsung, like other large companies, has been applying for patents, and many of the patented technologies didn't end up with related products on the market. So while Samsung may be designing a foldable smartphone, it's still a long way from a product release to market.