Revista.

• The history of wearable technology
starts with the watch, which was
worn by people to tell time. In 1500
the German inventor Peter
Henlein created small watches which
were worn as necklaces. A century
later, men began to carry their
watches in their pockets as waistcoat
became a fashionable item, which
led to the creation of pocket
watches. Wristwatches were also
created in the late 1600s but were
worn mostly by women as bracelets.
Over time, the watch become
smaller and more precise. In 1904,
the aviator Alberto Santos-
Dumont pioneered the use of the
wristwatch as it allowed him to have
his hands unoccupied when piloting.
This proved that the wrist is a
convenient place to wear a watch
which led people to start using
wristwatches. People started to
create wearables to use in every
occasion, from tools that help them
win in gambling games, to rings used
as a computational device by
traders, to electronic headbands
used as a costume in theaters, and a
wearable camera strapped to a bird
to take aerial photos, among others.
• And finally we might get to the most
interesting part of wearable technology,
the kind of potential that people are
hyping now, but that is many steps
down the road. That’s using the
continuous monitoring of lots of people
to come up with new warning and
wellness signs in how their hearts and
muscles are working.
• A major problem with wearable
technologies and one that Ahrendts is in
a good position to fix is that they are too
conspicuous. The engineers who design
them delight in advertising the fact that
they’re wearing the hot new device. But
outside Silicon Valley, displaying the
cutting-edge equivalent of a BlackBerry
holster isn’t chic.
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El primer articulo viene de: NeosenTec.
Segundo articulo redactado por: Editor Josué
González Gutiérrez.
Tercer articulo redactado por: Director Fabián
Abel Pérez Domínguez.
• So let’s hope the tedium of the
current generation of step/breath
quantifying wearables gives way to a
smarter generation of embedded
sensors that offer genuine utility for
specific problems — and do so
without drawing attention to their
own existence, or making us overobsessed
with our own.