{"id":26,"date":"2016-01-21T17:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2016-04-09T19:42:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T19:42:48","slug":"the-history-of-wearable-tech","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/chapter-two\/the-history-of-wearable-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Wearable Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief timeline of wearable devices<\/h1>\n

Wearable technology is a not a relatively\u00a0new phenomenon. While its uses and high profile placement on the consumer market is new, wearable devices have been around since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

The following timeline is\u00a0adapted from information\u00a0from the 2014 MaRs Market Insights Wearable Tech: Leveraging Canadian Innovation to Improve Health\u00a0<\/em>report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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1960<\/span>1970<\/span>1980<\/span>1990<\/span>2000<\/span>2010<\/span><\/div>
A pocket computer is developed\u00a0by Ed Thrope and Claude Shannon. It’s the size of a cigarette pack and designed to predict roulette wheels. <\/div>\n
The HP O1 calculator watch is release by HP\"HP<\/div>\n
WearComp1 is built, a backpack that is able to display data on a head mounted display and wireless communications\"Backpack<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Wireless wearable webcam is developed by Steve Mann\"Wearable<\/p>\n

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The iPhone is released by Apple – a pocket computer\"iPhone\"<\/p>\n

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Many wearables are released to the consumer market including Fitbits<\/p>\n

\"Fitbit\"<\/p>\n

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PREVIOUS: Push for Innovation.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NEXT: The relationship between wearables and health.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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A brief timeline of wearable devices Wearable technology is a not a relatively\u00a0new phenomenon. While its uses and high profile placement on the consumer market is new, wearable devices have been around since the 1960s. The following timeline is\u00a0adapted from information\u00a0from the 2014 MaRs Market Insights Wearable Tech: Leveraging Canadian Innovation to Improve Health\u00a0report.   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285,"parent":7,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post-thumb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/474"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/agingtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}