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The Future of Wearables is a TED talk from Lee Shupp. He unpacks how wearable technology will develop from being on us, to into us and becoming a part of us. As the industry continues to rapidly grow, smart sensors, AI, and mini tech are transforming everything from wearable fashion to fitness to mind controlled devices and indigestible health trackers. Transhumanism is starting to become a controversial force as the boundaries between biology and technology are starting to integrate. The urgent ethical questions still remain around privacy, security and our sense of self that is being redefined in the age of advanced technology.
In this Ted Talk, Reed Ferber addresses the potential of wearable technology and sharing your data in a responsible manner. Although it's a recognized issue concerning data privacy, the speaker argues that each individual owns their data. Researchers collected from over 30,000 users and was able to detect COVID-19 prior to symptoms. The speaker invites individuals to actively contribute their wearable data by taking on the role of “citizen scientists” which can improve your everyday health data and a healthier smarter world!
Speaker Gonzalo Tudela presents in his Ted talk the idea of wearable technology impacting the general public’s health, productivity and day to day experience. Wearable technology dates back to the 16th century as the evolution of these devices has transformed the way we care for ourselves. Gonzalo calls out two critical principals, the enterprise and healthcare as these focused points touch on both healthcare diagnostics and improving the workplace performance.
Scientist Ronen Polsky introduces a breakthrough microneedle technology that his lab successfully developed. This Microneedle Technology has tiny painless needles that penetrate the outer skin and inserts slightly below the skin to access interstitial fluids. This provides instant reading on glucose, lactate, pH, and electrolytes to potentially detect early signs of early cardiac and cancer. More than a personal health tool, this innovation empowers early disease discovery and intervention to advance the future of medicine towards a more accessible era of healthcare.
Wearables and the Wired Person is a Ted talk from Michael Snyder. A Stanford geneticist who argues that the surge of wearable technologies is representing a fundamental shift in how we monitor and think about fitness and health. Snyder differentiates between a 15 minute doctor visit to a wearable tracker that not only monitors heart rate and sleep, but stress, blood oxygen, blood pressure, glucose levels and environmental radiation which will offer continuous data. Through careful observation of his heart rate and oxygen data, he discovered having Lyme disease that slightly changed his vitals. Through this he was able to draw an analogy that the human body deserves a similar level of tech powered monitoring tracking similar to high end vehicles that utilize multiple sensors to function flawlessly.
In this Ted talk Shreyas Sen explores the major security risk of wearable and implanted medical devices “Internet of Body (IoB)”. Sensitive information is able to be transmitted into the surrounding environment leaving them exposed to potential security breaches. Pacemakers and insulin pumps are a prime example in society of how information can be misused and hacked. Sen introduces the human body as a safe and secure network for data transmission. His research utilize the electro-quasi-static field (EQS) to ensure confident signals within the body itself to significantly reduce the risk of leakage. In the end Sen anticipates that this technology will enable a low frequency signal to travel through the body safely. This will help medical professionals protect their patients information more confidently in a safer, smarter and more efficient way.
