Wearing a device that identifies other people’s facial expressions can help children with autism develop better social skills, a Stanford pilot study has demonstrated. Children with autism w... Read more
Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have developed hardware and software to remotely monitor and control devices that mimic the human physiological system. Devices kn... Read more
In the near future, invisible health-tracking technology will replace wearables, like the Apple Watch, available now With the introduction of the Apple HealthKit late last month, the burgeon... Read more
One man’s crusade against high-tech voyeurism may enlist the masses with an affordable, effective device New Zealand-born, Berlin-based super-hacker Julian Oliver wants to protect your priva... Read more
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS has adapted its SHORE™ real-time face detection and analysis software to work with Google Glass, the first app of its kind. With the aid... Read more
Watch Your Privacy harnesses open data from cameras around the world and lets wearers configure their own “safe zones.” A new Google Glass app called Watch Your Privacy lets wear... Read more
The much-talked-about Google Glass — the eyewear with computer capabilities — could potentially save lives, especially in isolated or far-flung locations, say scientists. They are reporting... Read more
The increasing ubiquity of wearables and the Internet of Things has rightly prompted concerns over the privacy of personal data and establishing boundaries for being tracked. Hitachi, the Ja... Read more
As cameras become ubiquitous and able to identify people, more safeguards on privacy will be needed “THIS season there is something at the seaside worse than sharks,” declared a newspaper in... Read more
Could be an important step toward the development of useful, practical telemedicine A University of Alabama at Birmingham surgical team has performed one of the first surgeries using a virtu... Read more
As part of a new effort to see how technology can impact real-world problems, Google has given five nonprofits their Glass devices to see how they can amplify the work they are already doing... Read more
Computers will someday soon automatically provide short video digests of a day in your life, your family vacation or an eight-hour police patrol, say computer scientists at The University of... Read more
Google‘s head-mounted computers may not be on everyone’s face yet. But in hospitals, doctors are already seeing how they could change health care. For most people, Google Glass s... Read more
The OrCam is a small camera linked to a very powerful wearable computer. It sees what you see and through your finger-pointing understands what information you seek, relaying auditory feedba... Read more
Intel’s Justin Rattner explains why we need new displays and graphics. Tricorders?—Not so much Google has stoked our collective imagination via relentless promotion of its Google Glass weara... Read more
