Walmart Begins Testing Drone Deliveries For Groceries, Household Items
Walmart started making its first drone deliveries by launching a small pilot program in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Flytrex, and Israeli startup will operate the drones, which will deliver select grocery and household items, the retailer said. Read more Amazon and Walmart Granted Patents for Novel Uses of Biometric Sensing “Years ago, our founder Sam Walton […]
Singapore To Give Its Citizens Wearable ‘Tokens’ for COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Singapore will start giving out wearable devices that use Bluetooth to track people’s interactions, as the country looks to resume more public activities in the coming weeks. The devices are called ‘tokens,’ and they are built on Singapore’s contact tracing smartphone app TraceTogether. Read more Countries Deploying Wearable Technology To Bring Back Tourists The devices […]
Apple Beats Samsung and Fitbit As North American Wearables Shipments Grow 10% Amid Pandemic
The value of North America’s wearable band market in Q2 2020 remained flat year-on-year at US$2 billion, despite shipments growing 10% annually, according to technology market analyst firm Canalys. Samsung lost a huge chunk of its market share through the period, as Americans went for cheaper trackers that were priced below US$50. Read more Contactless […]
Wearable Cardiac Devices Market Worth USD 6.4 Billion By 2026, According To Global Market...
The growing adoption of wearable technology across the healthcare sector will drive the global wearable cardiac devices market share, according to a new report by Global Market Insights Inc. In the report, the wearable cardiac devices market was valued at more than $1.2bn in 2019 and is likely to expand at a healthy CAGR of […]
KINETIC-JLG Partnership To Deploy COVID-19 Safety Wearables For Industrial Workers
KINETIC, a NY-based wearable device maker that provides safety wearables for industrial workers, has partnered with JLG Industries, to deploy its Reflex smart wearable at JLG facilities. In alignment with their people-first culture, JLG has deployed the KINETIC Reflex devices on the shop floor to provide team members with instant feedback on high-risk ergonomic postures. […]
Silicone 3D Printing Paving The Way for Soft Robotics And Wearables
Researches in the medical field are causing a rise in wearables and soft robotics. Recent research published in Nature explains how soft materials can be fabricated with micron resolution for complex systems like robotics and next-generation wearables. Additive manufacturing has a wide range of applications and addresses many challenges inherited from conventional molding techniques such […]