January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
69 pages
1h 21m
English
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Chapter 5. Our Wearable, Connected Future
If you’d asked someone prior to 2014 what a wearable technology device means to them, you’d have gotten a lot of different answers, and a smartwatch might have been one of them. By the time we reached 2015, things were taking shape, but Apple Watch was essentially an extension of an iPhone. It wasn’t meant to be a standalone device; it was more of a window into the bigger world of a companion smartphone.
That’s been cleaned up a lot in 2016. But even before Apple added GPS and more standalone capabilities to their watch, devices that use Connect IQ technology had been designed from the ground up to be extensions of the user rather than extensions of the user’s smartphone. That’s a smart place to start from, and in 2016, Apple started moving in that direction.
If you start from thinking of wearables as an extension of you, where can they go from here? The DIY, craft, and Maker movements are full of inspirational examples of wearable devices that break out of conventional definitions of wearables. Many of them blur the lines between the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables.
The inexpensive wearable FLORA platform from Adafruit is a constant source of innovation and inspiration for anyone looking to take wearables in a new direction. Any of these projects from Becky Stern, former Director of Wearable Electronics at Adafruit, could be integrated with a wearable device with Connect IQ technology, with the addition of an ANT radio to the FLORA ...
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