The Wearable That Could End the Era of the Blood Pressure Cuff

For more than a century, checking your blood pressure has meant wrapping a cuff around your arm, squeezing it until your fingers tingle, and sitting perfectly still while a machine spits out two numbers. Useful? Sure. Practical for real-time monitoring? Not even close.

That static, one-off measurement leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of what’s happening inside your arteries during the other 23 hours and 59 minutes of your day. And it’s part of why hypertension—one of the world’s most common and deadly conditions—still blindsides millions of people.

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The future of listening to music is feeling it

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Recording artist Timbaland has teamed up with SubPac, a Los Angeles-based startup that has created a wearable device set to redefine entertainment through new immersive physical-sound technology. This new wearable will change the way that we hear and feel music forever.

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Bluetooth 5.0?

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A team of researchers working out of the University of California, San Diego announced Tuesday that they had developed a proof-of-concept wireless transmission system that is both more efficient and more secure than Bluetooth. It works by sending data signals through your body’s natural magnetic field instead of over the air and could lead to a new class of ultra-low power wearables.

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