Wearable Technology

WeHealth was exhibiting its Cardioskin product. It is a vest-like wearable device that provides long term continuous ECG recording for up to 14 days.

IDTechEx caught up with Sky Labs, a company based in South Korea. It was showcasing a ring-type wearable device for non-invasive continuous heart and ECG monitoring.

IDTechEx interviewed Dr Peter Rumm, Medical Projects at Custo-Med - a company based near Munich, Germany. It was showcasing Custo Watch, a continuous ambulatory Holter ECG.

CardiacSense, a MedTech company based in Israel, presented during a 'Pitch' session that IDTechEx attended.

Dr Tuomas Rissanen, Head of Science at Heart2Save, approached IDTechEx to introduce its product. Heart2Save is a company based in Finland that has developed a wearable ECG device.

IDTechEx caught up with Zoll, which exhibited the LifeVest Network - a wearable heart monitoring and external defibrillator for heart failure patients at risk of sudden death. This product also takes ECG measurements to assess heart rhythm.

Medical implants of the future may feature reconfigurable electronic platforms that can morph in shape and size dynamically as bodies change or transform to relocate from one area to monitor another within our bodies.

Preventice Solutions revealed the BodyGuardian Mini, a wearable Holter ECG, to IDTechEx during the Congress. It functions as either a single or multichannel ECG.

Biobeat, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted a 510K clearance for its patch and watch for measurement of blood pressure, oxygenation and heart rate in hospitals, clinics, long-term care and at home.

The agenda has just been announced for the 16th annual Printed Electronics USA event taking place in Santa Clara, California, on November 20 & 21. This is the world's largest event on flexible, hybrid & printed electronics. Printed Electronics USA is part of the IDTechEx show, which brings together seven key disruptive technologies and their customers in one venue.

This is the second of a three-part series of articles on haptics. Haptics involves the use of technology to stimulate the sense of touch. IDTechEx have been covering the technology behind this important market sector for the last five years, and have just released their latest report: Haptics 2020-2030. See more information on the IDTechEx website or contact research@IDTechEx.com.

The ever-present devices that seem to track all our moves can be annoying, intrusive or worse, but for heart failure patients, tiny wearable cameras could prove life-enhancing, according to research.

Stretchable Electronics is already commercial and comes in many shapes and forms. Indeed, our report Stretchable and Conformal Electronics 2019-2029 finds that the stretchable and conformal electronics market will grow from a small base today to approach $500m within a decade at the level of materials and components.

IDTechEx's most recent report on the industry includes historic data and 10 year market forecasts for 48 different wearable technology product types, of which 20 are types of wearable medical device. These include more traditional medical products such as hearing aids, cardiac devices (e.g. Holter monitors or event monitors) and insulin pumps, but also newer devices such as continuous glucose monitors (CGM) for diabetics, other new electronic skin patches, and other emerging wearable medical device prospects. These products increased their combined annual revenue by $10bn a year in the period from 2010 to 2019, and make up around a third of all of the wearable device revenue in 2019.

In what could be a breakthrough for body sensor and navigation technologies, researchers have developed the smallest accelerometer yet reported, using the highly conductive nanomaterial, graphene.

BeBop Sensors announced the new BeBop Sensors Forte Data Glove Enterprise Edition, the first all-day affordable high performance wireless VR/AR haptic glove built for business.

The IDTechEx Launchpad initiative is open to early-stage start-ups, universities, newly spun-out companies, research labs and government labs who can demonstrate a working prototype or product that highlights new advances in any of the related event topics of: electric vehicles, energy storage, graphene, internet of things, printed electronics, sensors, and wearable technology.

Accumold specializes in producing extraordinarily small plastic parts that require extreme precision since 1985.

An innovative graphene-based film helps shield people from disease-carrying mosquitos, according to a new study.

IDTechEx interviewed Esmeralda Megally, CEO and Co-Founder of Xsensio. They are a Swiss company, founded in 2014, developing a platform that they call "Lab-on-Skin (TM)". This is based on technology originally developed at EPFL, including the use of 3D extended metal gate ion sensitive field effect transitiors (3D EMG ISFETs) to detect ion concentration in sweat.