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Wearable technology

  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
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    Ōura takes a turn on the fitness-finance treadmill Premium content

    Sales of the company’s gadgets are doubling year-on-year suggesting it has further to run

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  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Smart ring start-up Ōura raises $200mn as valuation leaps to $5.2bn

    Finnish company’s growing popularity has led to its sales more than doubling this year

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  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
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    The Layer 7 Cortical Interface is a scalable brain-computer interface that uses a cranial micro-slit technique
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
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    A synthesis of biology, data science and sociology — aided by artificial intelligence — is creating a pipeline of innovative treatments

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  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
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    New products from tech giants and start-ups struggle to compete with smartphone

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  • Saturday, 30 December, 2023
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    Past failures with smart glasses have not deterred some from building wearables that combine cameras with AI

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  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
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    Italian car designer taps into the expertise of Hong Kong-based Globics for the first in a series of sophisticated models

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  • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
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    Start-ups: smart clothes have been wearing experience for investors Premium content

    Development projects have rolled on for years without spawning a significant sector

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  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
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    Virtual You — how digital doppelgängers could help us lead a healthy life

    An analysis of the potential of technology to transform personalised medicine is both stimulating and comprehensive

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
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    Best Buy: gadget hawker chases the silver dollar Premium content

    The US retailer has been moving into healthcare for older people as it seeks to expand beyond its core business

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  • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
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    Tech giant unveiled new version of AirPods Pro and several smartwatches

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  • Monday, 7 February, 2022
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    Alexandra Heal resolved to bring her wireless earbuds back from the dead. What she found about the consequences of ever-smaller gadgetry is deeply unsettling

  • Friday, 31 December, 2021
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    Doctors say it’s time Apple Watch ticked all the health boxes

    Device touted as ‘future of health’ has yet to change way patients are treated, say experts

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  • Monday, 13 December, 2021
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    Health tech industry learns true value of medical data

    With the emergence of artificial intelligence, health data has become gold

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    FT MagazinePatrick McGee
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    Smart rings and watches are shifting from activity trackers to sophisticated healthcare tools

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
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    Doling out returns may not be something either company has to spend much time calculating

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  • Monday, 30 August, 2021
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  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
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    ‘Imagine if Alexa had eyes and Siri could see what you see’

  • Sunday, 2 May, 2021
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    Company’s wireless earphones face heated competition from Samsung, Xiaomi and others

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
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    Hardware reveal is next step in social media group’s race to take on Apple in virtual world

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  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
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    The future of wearables: ‘Women have used earrings for 7,000 years. We’ve just upgraded the experience’

    Can eye-catchingly beautiful design be married with life-enhancing electronics? 

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  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Special ReportThe Future of Telecommunications
    Smart ambulances and wearables offer route to speedier treatments

    Service that improves treatment for patients on way to hospital to be introduced across UK after successful trial

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