MY PREZI ON WEARABLE MEDIA
Here's a link to my prezi on the future of Wearable Media. I did this presentation for my EMM class, but it has it relations to my essay as well.
Here's the script to accompany the slides.
Slides 1 and 2: Hello and good afternoon, my name Charissa.
I will be talking about Wearable Media and its future in
technology.
3:
But first, a little summary on the history of communication.
Humans first begin communicating with gestures, then oral, then text,
broadcasting and digital.
4:
What is Wearable Media you might ask?
It's basically tech which you could put on or off. They seem
cool at first, but how is this technological evolution going to be a necessity?
What are the real functional uses of wearable media?
5:
Wearable Tech now could be separated into two main functions.
Utility and entertainment. In the present, we have wearable tech in different
fields such as
Military: Exoskeletons for rehabilitation or to preserve body
durability and energy
Healthcare : Armbands To measure heart rate and blood
pressures
Fitness: Smart Clothing, Sleep Sensors
Infotainment: Samsung galaxy gear, Google glass and MYO,
which all requires wireless bluetooth connections to mobile devices and
computers.
6:
There are different misconceptions between wearable media and
Gestural Tech.
Both are different entities, although some tech merges the
two.
The differences between Gestural Tech and Wearable Media..
Like wearable MYO armband, it requires the user to wear the
armband, perform the gesture and then it translates them onto your device.
Which brings me to my next question.
7:
All this talk about Google Glass and smart watches got me
thinking. Will it ever replace Smart Phones? Mobile phones are considered a
necessity for us, the digital natives.
Are they just an extension for mobile phones?
Wearable media has their limitations.
When we switch between apps.
However, Flexible
screened mobile phones are soon to be sold. Will they be wearable as well?
Therefore, it would breach a gap between handheld devices and wearable media.
8:
Will we ever be able to take them off?
Take
the electronic tattoo display concept for example. Silicon is
slipped under the skin. Two
small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the
blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose and oxygen
to electricity.
Uses tiny microscopic spheres for the display.
Uses tiny microscopic spheres for the display.
“Ophthalmic
Electrochemical Sensors,” The sensors are designed to read chemicals in the
tear fluid of the wearer’s eye and alert the user through a little embedded LED
light, when user's blood sugar falls to dangerous levels.
Thermoelectric
Bracelets inventions by MIT enable individuals to control their own body
temperature, so they would not need to use large cooling or heating units to
achieve 'thermal comfort'.
Microsoft is
developing an Earbud mood detector where it detects the mood of the listener
via heart rate and thermometer, to play music that suited your mood.
Ironically, these
wearable media are invented to solved those problems.
Conclusion:
Are we reversing
the history of communication? Verbal communication and gesture recognition with
technology is expanding. After all, they are our primitive ways of
communicating.
Comments were:
- Include display methods.
- Add in how wearable media helps the disabled.
- Start the predictions earlier in the slides.
- Conclude with the topics relating to the subtopic at the first slide. Is it really necessary?
Well it is, as I believe wearable media is just a transition to mainstream implant technology. It's an important part of technological evolution if I might add.
