Intel Wearable Competition Down to Final 10

By Jeffrey Burt

Developers Raphael PM Lang and Camilo Anabalon created a bionic mattress designed to keep mothers linked with babies who are in incubation environments in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The device delivers haptic information—the sense of touch via forces or motions—from the mother to the child in real time.

First V1sion, a broadcast system, enables the player’s point of view—in sports like football, basketball and tennis—to be seen. The technology was developed by Jose Ildefso, Angeliki Terezaki, Roger Antunez and Anastasia Pistofidou.

Nixie is a wearable camera that can be unfolded and fly. It was created by Christoph Kohstall, Jelena Jovanovic and Michael Niedermayr.

Vumbl is a sports and activity necklace that takes in information from the wearer’s body through vibrations, and then sends the information back to the user via touch. The developers are Tom Shrive, James Price, Mark Siddorn and Samuel Tassell.

This robotic hand—developed by Open Bionics founder Joel Gibbard and Sammy Payne—is designed to offer the user advanced functionally for less than $1,000.

If the user needs a cool or warm touch, the Wristify band is there to provide it, on demand. The creators—Matthew Smith, Sam Shames, Megha Jain and David Cohen-Tanugi—say the device can communicate with and respond to the wearer.

Snowcookie is designed to take in a skier’s kinetics and physiology information, throw in some crowd-sourced ski data and enhance a user’s safety and technique, and connect them with other winter sports enthusiasts. The developers are Martin Kawalski, Zbigniew Nawrat, Piotr Lukasik and Ewa Waliczek.

BabyGuard, developed by Xiaoshan Huang, Shuai Ye and Chen Guo, was built to provide smart health care for babies for the first three years of their lives.

The developers describe ProGlove as “a professional wearable production tool that enables the user to work faster and easier.” It also offers business intelligence and control for production management, say the creators, Paul Gunther, Jonas Girardet, Thomas Kirchner and Alexander Grots.

Users can leverage the Blocks hardware and software platform to create the wearable technology they need. They can chose what blocks they need to do the job and get the look they want, and then snap those blocks together to create a unique wearable band, according to developers Serge Vasylechko, Hakeem Javaid and Omer Al Fakir.