Wearable Technology

What do Apple iWatches, AR headsets, noise-reducing hearing aids, and biometric t-shirts have in common? That’s right: they’re all technology we can wear, which makes them wearable…technology.

Those in the know refer to these items as “wearables,” and while the term is still used to refer to tech we wear for the heck of it—our favorite flashing LED-lit tiara, for example—more and more, it’s used to talk about technology that does something for us while we wear it.

Maybe it connects to our phone so we can read texts on our wristwatch. Maybe it monitors our workouts and gives us helpful stats afterwards. Maybe it’s an implant that can act as a defibrillator if we have a heart attack. Maybe it’s embedded in our yoga pants and vibrates against our hips when we need to adjust our happy baby pose. The possibilities are endless, and wearable gurus (as in, they are gurus in the wearable industry but are probably not themselves wearable, just to clarify) are coming up with more and more applications every day.