
Wearable technology: Coming to make you Smarter Everyday


Take for example, our education system, we tend to be aligned towards making ourselves known by GPA and ranking system to know who stands first and better. It extends to even, gaming tech, high scores, awards, medals all give a person instant gratification towards what one could achieve by just swiping a rectangular screen or by choreograph an army to sabotage enemy defenses in a shorter time to help one advance to next mission.
Life has also become an everyday mission. From starting your daily routine to workout or to take a few flight of stairs to the next floor in office all you need to look upon is your smart watch telling you that , “Hey, you have taken 8000 steps today! Congratulations! "
When you can invade technology to everyone's life, sometimes you miss on the merits of everyday human timescale of work and sleep routine. There have been many citations to how the millennials have become too much of App-centric and screen gazing zombies at night that there even a huge influx of mobile monitors inbuilt in to the Smart-watch which monitors sleep patterns. Instances of which have become routine where parents have started to monitor children preparing for their exams and aptitude tests by having a constant check on their sleep cycle.
Do you think it stops just there at the smart-watch, it does not?
Just few weeks back Levis had introduced a smart Jacket that could accurately take in all your features by sense of touch in your cufflinks and which in turn controls your smartphone. This remarkable technology is intertwined with Google's Jacquard tech which utilizes Nanofibres present in the Jacket to know where a person is likely to need the help of hand gesture over a Jacket while riding a bike rather than getting disturbed by picking up the smartphone from your pocket and be diverted in the ongoing traffic.
Marketers are keen at the prospect of pushing wearables advertising to you around
Savvy consumers will demand the ability to set specific permission settings on their device to structure who, what, where and when they can be disturbed. Picture smart watch settings to configure that your partner, child’s school and mother have access to send a push notification to your smartwatch’s screen during work hours on Monday through Friday. Conversely, people will also need to play an active role to own their body’s data generated.
Marketers are keen at the prospect of pushing wearable advertising to you around the clock. As ad revenues dwindle on TV and newspaper formats, next generation devices offer a new opportunity for brands to target people like we’ve never seen before
Where does all the power to run all this smart wearable gadgets come from? Well presently they come out of a socket or a wall charger
But hey, the future is pretty amazing in power management too. We have seen few prototype and product demos in past couple of years where top Brands like Tommy Hilfiger have traded a Jacket with flexible Solar panels and few other companies which are working on charging tech by having the body heat generate some kinetic charge to make few battery cells charged up. Maybe Morpheus in Matrix Trilogy was right after all, we are turning ourselves in to a simulation built to mimic the power or use of a single cell battery.
Will it stop at that? Getting data and power out of an everyday routine? Well, it doesn't.
People evolve everyday by learning new things. We don't make it a habit out of routine by doing the mundane thing over and over again. Sometimes we explore the nature around us and quickly take in latest catchy thing to be the next viral thing.
Pokémon Go was launched as an augmented reality game to market the use of GPS accurate locations tapped with exotic creatures to capture. What became as a casual thing quickly grew to become a battery draining game which needed your Pokémon buddy to constantly take a walk to make him stronger and help the eggs hatch. You see the irony of you, neglecting and rejecting your Smart watch for fitness tracking early this year. Now, you became an adorable Pokémon trainer who wants to walk miles and keep yourself fit to walk and compete in tournaments. The Pokémon company, Niantic Technology even launched a Pokémon Go watch to vibrate and indicate you of potential Pokémon nearby without taking your smartphone from your pocket. Now that's what I call marketing right in a right way!
So, what will come next out of wearable technology may be, the watch should also evolve and become smarter as us. Should n’t it learn about Salsa, Samba or new dance routine with all the trackers placed inside it. Should it not be ready to try mountain climbing, paragliding, snorkeling and what not.
Maybe the wishful thinking one has in writing the article helps me realize that "Isn't it so that I wish I had all the cool powers of Inspector Gadgets in cartoons when I was a kid?" Or to those millennials who grew up in later times, I ask them, "Don't you wish you had your own Jarvis in your Smart-watch?"