“You don’t change your shirt because you’re uncomfortable, your shirt changes to make you comfortable,” explained Steve Holmes, vice president of Intel’s New Devices Group. The chip giant Intel has a New Devices Group working on marrying wearables to fashion, with its latest creations of a dress with latticed framework that grows larger when you’re anxious (free advice: don’t wear this on a first date), and a brassiere that adjusts for the heat, addressing a problem Shape magazine calls the “swoobs.” Hopefully you can do something before you blow a gasket,” Kraft said. There will be more combinations of this data in ‘predictalytics’ that are like the check engine light on your car. “There will soon be continuous blood pressure monitoring. Kraft thinks doctors are going to be prescribing wearables and other technology before long. Daniel Kraft, a physician-scientist-inventor at the Google-backed Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. “Wearables are going to become medicalized,” says Dr.
Health management is the application some in the business think may take wearables to the next level, which some call the “Internet of the Body.” The conversation is no longer limited, in a visit to the doctor, to ‘How are you feeling today?’ and ‘OK.’ Now the doctor says ‘I see you had elevated blood pressure at this point and this point last week. “Think of data you can capture from somebody in real time as they go about their day. “We are now getting to point where this data is usable,” he said. That said, Llamas thinks wearables have a future collecting and managing data on our bodies and health. “That seems like big numbers, but the smartphone market ships 300 million units each quarter.”
“This year we’re anticipating 76.1 million,” said IDC analyst Ramon Llamas. Last year saw a total of 28.9 million wearable devices of all kinds shipped worldwide, according to the research firm IDC. “With the data we will be collecting, there is an opportunity to really inform sports science, correlating various running forms with the risk for a particular injury.” “With our technology we will have data on thousands and eventually millions of runners in their natural environment,” she said. The feedback from Lumo Lift and the data on the app helped me work on my posture, but Lumo’s CEO Monisha Perkash has a bigger vision for the running shorts. Lumo just launched Lumo Run, smart men’s shorts and women’s capris with a 9-axis sensor that fits in the waistband and measures the wearer’s movements and biometrics, offering real-time tips via headphones for improving running style and avoiding injuries. After calibrating it for my best posture, it vibrated whenever I slouched, reminding me to stand up straight like my mother told me to. Lumo Lift attached to my shirt with a magnetic clasp and communicated with an Apple iPhone app. I recently borrowed a gadget called the Lumo Lift from its maker, Lumo Bodytech in Palo Alto, and wore it around for a few days. Someday your body may have its own set of Internet of devices monitoring various vital signs and relaying them back to trainers and doctors.
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