Insights Report of technology trends 2014 for Portland Design - London

1. INCORPORATING
TECHNOLOGY
REPORT - 2014

2. Key-Terms
Quantified Self
Balanced Nutrition
Health Monitoring
Fashionable-Tech
Recording Data
Throughout recording data and monitoring the body, wearable
technology in alliance with smartphones have open the possibility to
quantify the self in benefit of one’s health and physical wellness.

3. Athos Sensoria
Jawbone &
Munchery Airo
Athletic clothing startup
Athos launched a full body
workout garment that tracks
a variety of fitness and
body data while exercising.
All of the collected data
is transferred to the users
mobile devices where they
can see their total body
workout.
Sensoria, a fitness motion
and activity tracking
startup has developed a
pair of sensor-embedded
socks that not only tracks
traditional fitness data but
also measures users running
form and technique. All the
data is sent to a mobile app
which delivers simple advice
on how to improve users
personal running skills.
Jawbone partnered up with
Munchery’s meal delivery
service to offer a better and
more complete service buy
automatically transmitting
Munchery’s nutritional data
to the Jawbone app
Airo is a wellness bracelet
that works by projecting
LED lights into the
bloodstream detecting
metabolites associated with
carbohydrates, proteins,
and fats. By scanning this
information, the bracelet can
give explicit feedback on
how the body metabolism
is processing nutrients. Airo
can also track sleep and
exercise data.

4. Lumo Lift Mimo
Tory Burch &
Fitbit Mica
Lumo Lift tracks posture in
real time and gently vibrates
when you need to straighten
up! It’s fashionable, easy to
wear, tracks steps, calories &
more
Mimo Baby is a wearable
baby monitor that lets
parents know their baby’s
vital stats, such as activity
level and skin temperature
right in the phone.
Designer Tory Burch
partnered up with wearable
fitness brand Fitbit to launch
a high-end accessory
collection bringing a stylish
refresh to the unattractive
fitness tracker design market.
MICA is Intels first luxury
smart bracelet made with
a sapphire display and
semiprecious gems. The
bracelet was made for the
high end women accessory
market and will be sold
exclusively at the luxury
retail store Braneys New
York.

5. Key-Terms
Overcoming Boundaries (interpersonal relationships)
Emotional Mirror
Intangible Devices
Just as wearable-tech can benefit one’s well been it has overgrown
to provide the feeling of a connected intimacy by overcoming physi-
cal boundaries and expressing personal emotions.

6. Tactilu Bond
Mind Rider
Helmet
Happiness
Blanket
Tactilu is a revolutionary
wristband that aims to
transmit touch and feelings
between two individuals
even if they are miles
apart. The bracelet uses
internet connection to transit
touch between wearers.
The concept is to create a
connected intimacy object
that helps couples transmit
emotions over distance.
Bond is a module bracelet
with touch sensors allowing
individuals to feel each other
from anywhere in the world.
The wristband works by
tapping the module sensor
twice to send a tickle. The
bracelet also links with
google maps and lets users
leave tickles to partners in
specific locations.
The Mindrider Helmet helps
bicycle commuters have
the best and less stressfull
journeys. It incorporates a
mobile phone app and a
forehead-based sensor that
measures electrical activity
in the riders brain with a
GPS location. By doing so,
commuters will be able to
know in which parts of their
journey they were more
stressed to then avoid for
their next routes.
The Happiness Blanket is
a branded British Airways
revolutionary device that
visually shows the wellbeing
of a passenger in real time
by changing colour to reflect
their mood while on-board.

7. Key-Terms
Body Extensions
Enhanced Experience
Simbiotes
Augmented Bodies
Different from Wearable-Tech, these devices aim to extend the body
functions to overcome medical conditions and enhance the human
sensorial experience.

8. Fin
Fin is a Tiny Wearable
Device that you can wear
on the Thumb of your hand
as a ring and it will make
your whole Palm,Fingers
as Numeric Keypad and
Gesture Space
Control VR is a next-
generation wearable
technology that turns your
hands into the ultimate
intuitive controller for PCs,
VR and beyond. The device
was designed to be versatile
and used with a variety
of operating systems and
platforms from medicine to
gaming.
The computer worn inside
the EAR: Clip-on PC is
controlled by winking,
grinding teeth and poking
out your tongue
Control VR
Earclip-Type
Wearable PC
The Open Hand
Project
Dextrus is a 3D printetd
robotic porsthetic hand
that offers much of the
functionality of a human to
amputees. Detrux is a part
of the Open Hand Project
whose goal is to make
robotic prosthetic hands
more accessible, while
allowing anyone to improve
and customise designs
themselves for everyone to
share.

9. Google Contact
Lenses
Google partnered up with
Swiss medical firm Novartis
to create a smart lense
designed to measure glucose
levels in the wearers tears
and help restore the eye’s
natural autofocus.
Scientists from the
University of Illinois have
manufactured a wearable
sensor that can be adhered
to people’s skin and monitor
their temperature, hydration
levels and circulatory system
changes.
Proteus digital health has
cerated a self-powered
ingesitible computer pill that
could help doctors diagnoses
their patients. The pills
are tiny robots that travel
through the digestive system
and monitor everything from
vital signs to blood flow. The
pill can wirelessly transmit
results back to a cell phone
app, a connected body
patch or to a website.
MC10 ProteusOculus
The Rift is an upcoming
virtual reality head-mounted
display, being developed
by Oculus VR. During its
period as an independent
company, Oculus VR
raised US$2.4 million for the
development of the Rift.
The consumer version of
the product is expected to
become available in April
2015

10. Key-Terms
Chore-shortcuts
monitored-living
systematising day to day life
systematising transportation
Facilitators
Beyond recording data, technology is workings toward simplifying
humans day to day life. This life systematization aims to create short-
cuts for daily chores, monitor the living and systematise transporta-
tion.

11. Btn Navdy Google Car
Bttn is a seemingly
innocuous big red button
that can be programmed
to achieve a huge range of
tasks from turning on your
computer, to testing you
family that you got home.
The Copenhagen Wheel
transforms your bicycle
into a smart electric hybrid,
quickly and easily. The
Wheel contains a motor,
batteries, multiple sensors,
wireless connectivity, and
an embedded control
system.
Navdy is a heads-up
transparent Head-Up Display
(HUD) for the car . It projects
information as if it’s floating
six feet in front of you. In
the car you already have.
Navdy extends the apps
you already have on your
phone. No service plans
required
The Google Self-Driving
Car is a project by Google
that involves developing
technology for autonomous
cars, mainly electric cars.
The software powering
Google’s cars is called
Google Chauffeur
Copenhaghen
Wheel