Wearable Technology and Today's Society

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For years now the military has taken advantage of the use of wearable technology. Soldiers have been wearing sensors in their uniforms and cameras in their helmets. When it was noticed that such devices were fairly cheap to make, app developers and manufacturers decided to bring it to the market in 2013. Companies such as Google, Samsung, and Sony have been quick to jump onto the bandwagon. Google has created their idea of wearable technology in their launch of “Google Glass”. The high tech glasses can do almost anything computer can do such as navigation, make calls, take pictures, record videos as you see them and even video chat. Other developers have created their renditions of “smart watches”. All of them are based upon the same concept, which is putting majority of your features from your mobile devices right at your wrist, yet keeping the simplicity of a watch. To contrary belief watches and glasses are not the only installments made to wearable technologies, some places have made t-shirts that charge phones and vest that allow patients monitoring in hospitals.
Many are wondering how these devices can be anything other than a fashion trend. The wearable technology revolution is much more than a way to access your cellular device or computer right at your wrist or eye glasses, it can also be beneficial when it comes to health of the elderly. It has been said that in many parts of the world, people are trying to figure out technologies that can help with care for the elderly (Apex, 2013). Wearable technology comes in to play a vital role because they can help monitor the patient and can also have alarms installed in them that can prevent medical emergencies (Apex, 2013). In some hospitals they have used a Spanish inventio...

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