Lifestyle

Wearables and the Next Wave of Personal Tech Wearables have moved beyond step counts and buzzing notifications. Today’s devices blend sensors for health, activity, and mood into daily life. The next wave adds smarter insights, more comfort, and better privacy, so wearables feel like helpful teammates rather than gadgets. New hardware ideas push into smaller, longer-lasting form factors. Flexible screens, low-power processors, and new materials make wearables lighter and kinder to the skin. Energy harvesting and smarter on-device AI help devices run longer between charges while keeping data on your wrist. ...

Wearables: Computing on the Edge of Health and Lifestyle Wearables sit at the edge of health and lifestyle. These devices carry sensors, small processors, and enough memory to run tasks close to the skin instead of sending every detail to a data center. By doing more work locally, they give faster feedback, reduce cloud dependence, and can help protect privacy. Edge computing lets the device analyze signals such as heart rate, sleep patterns, or activity data right away, with only the essentials leaving the wrist or patch. ...