As computers move from the desktop, to the palm top, and onto our bodies and into our everyday lives, infinite opportunities arise to realize applications that have never before been possible. In this paper we focus our attention on three applications, from the plethora of wearable computing possibilities. We will first discuss general everyday use wearable computers, this will include such dev...

Advances in wireless technologies, low-power electronics, the internet of things, and in the domain of connected health are driving innovations in wearable medical devices at a tremendous pace. Wearable sensor systems composed of flexible and stretchable materials have the potential to better interface to the human skin, whereas silicon-based electronics are extremely efficient in sensor data p...

Wearable medical devices can provide both continuous monitoring and ubiquitous treatment. Challenges in this area include the need for a low-power/power-saving design to extend battery life and to reduce the size of the battery itself. This is followed by size and weight restrictions to meet patient expectations of what is 'wearable', the biocompatibility of all outer housings and the final ass...

Mobile health technologies offer great promise for reducing healthcare costs and improving patient care. Wearable and implantable technologies are contributing to a transformation in the mobile health era in terms of improving healthcare and health outcomes and providing real-time guidance on improved health management and tracking. In this article, we review the biomedical applications of wear...

Recent advances in wearable bioelectronics have driven various healthcare applications, such as the monitoring, sensing, and treating of diseases. However, unsustainable batteries toxic power solutions hinder their use at skin interface or vivo. As a promising solution, supercapacitors attracted attention researchers. there are still several drawbacks, transparency, stretchability, biocompatibi...

Recently, semiconductor and circuits have been developed to make many high technologies of processing be easier to be introduced. By using this technology, there has been considerable amount of research effort directed towards applied information and communications technology (ICT) to medical services [1, 2]. Body area networks (BANs) have emerged as an important subject in personal wireless co...

Will consumer wearable technology ever be adopted or accepted by the medical community? Patients and practitioners regularly use digital technology (e.g., thermometers and glucose monitors) to identify and discuss symptoms. In addition, a third of general practitioners in the United Kingdom report that patients arrive with suggestions for treatment based on online search results [1]. However, c...

Wearable computing is a branch of embodied technology concerned with devices and gadgets that are worn in or on the human body. Wearable computing is a fast growing hot trend in the device industry today. This paper will look at wearable consumer devices that track and quantify personal activity with the goal of motivating consumers to exercise more, be more active and lead an overall healthier...

Introduction: Wearable devices can provide new ways of sensing users’ contexts [1]. Since they can be worn, wearable devices tend to have a higher context recognition rate than existing personal mobile devices [2]. For that reason, wearable devices can provide new functions based on context recognition to improve the usability and efficiency of services [3]. Form factors and sensors are used to...