Wearable Technology Is Coming From The Edge To Mainstream.

In the last few months of 2014, wearable technology was a great splendor, especially when Apple announced Apple Watch in September last year.

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Gradually moving from the edge to the mainstream, it is time to consider new areas beyond the wearable technology: interaction technology.

From pocket to wrist.

Push the existing technology to a new height.

What is more exciting is the gradual application of embeddable, adsorbable and audible devices.

This will include flexible technology incorporated into our skin, sensor equipment that recognizes eye movements, and headphones equipped with the function of monitoring heart rate.

All these changes, in the process of technological creation, are deeply integrated with our lives and bring us better usability and real breakthrough technology to achieve incremental development.

Technology and emotion

The rise of big data can help companies understand consumers' needs better than ever before.

In the future, consumer technology can convey and plate users' emotions, and even before users can make demands, they can forward user information to the company in advance to provide corresponding services.

Researchers at the KAIST of Korea Institute of science and technology are developing a sensor that can record users' response to goose bumps.

This helps to monitor users' emotional responses in a wide range, and enables advertisers and entertainment companies to accurately analyze consumer participation.

In the UK, British Airways uses the color of high-tech blankets to monitor the state of the passengers' brain waves, and sends them to blankets via Bluetooth. Blankets will show different passengers' emotional responses in different colors.

British Airways said that the use of such high-tech blankets could better improve and adjust their services.

Application of interaction design

More and more developers are gradually bringing technology to new areas beyond personal devices.

SensaBubble, invented by the research team of University of Bristol, is a bubble machine that produces images, words and emoji expressions on the surface of released bubbles. This bubble machine explains the multi sensory technology of human-machine interaction very well.

The chief researcher, Diego Martinez, told us that air or vacuum will become a new area of interaction design.

His vision for the future is that large shopping centers will install SensaBubbles bubble machines, and bubbles can send sensory advertisements to passers-by in shopping malls. Bubbles can show the current popular labels and even the latest Chanel perfume trailers.

Some companies have practiced this idea by delaminated the existing technology.

For example, the first branch of Rebecca Minkoff is equipped with an interactive large screen so that customers can browse various styles.

And ask for a try on. After receiving the request, the customer will receive a text message to remind them to go to the free fitting room.

Once they enter the fitting room, they can use interactive smart fitting glasses in fitting rooms to try out different sizes and styles.

The application of this technology will change the retail experience of customers, and at the same time, it will give shoppers a lot of valuable advice on customer preferences.

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Experiencing special daily necessities

In 2014, we also saw the feasibility of embedded electronic products.

Motorola has released an ultra-thin embedded digital tattoo patch, which can be unlocked for mobile phones.

At the same time, apple is developing a smart headset, which can measure the wearer's body temperature, activity level, heart rate and sweating volume.

Apple has already applied for a patent for this technology.

Such technology will soon be applied to the fabric of clothing or into our family.

Founded in 2011, Studio XO is a technology, fashion and music laboratory.

For example, Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peas designed a series of fashion and technology combined with interactive technology clothing, so that we are full of reverie for the future development of clothing.

As consumers, we look forward to more and more ways to interact with technology, brands and the environment around us.

Smart watches are just a pitional product before the next wave of breakthroughs.

And this breakthrough technology will further assimilate in our lives and families.

Today's technology is still constantly exploring new ways to cope with many challenges, and the realization of this technology will be more than just touching the buttons.