Subject
7 entries
Wearables
Bookmarks
Patented Futures — MODEM
MODEM's Patented Futures reimagines nondescript tech patent filings as forward-looking product designs — mapping the implied promises and implications of corporate wearable tech patents. A design fiction project that makes speculative technology concrete.
Wearable Technology at Chartio
Personal photo from a wearable technology gathering at Chartio in San Francisco, June 2013. Chartio was a BI startup; this was a community event around the early wearables movement, about a year before the Apple Watch announcement.
Jawbone UP API (Unofficial)
Eric Blue's unofficial API documentation for the Jawbone UP activity tracker — reverse-engineered from the mobile app's HTTP calls to expose sleep, step, and activity data programmatically. A 2013 snapshot of the unofficial API culture around early consumer wearables.
Whistle: Fitbit for Dogs
Whistle launched a fitness tracker for dogs — a clip-on activity monitor that tracks steps, rest, and calories for pets. An early example of quantified-self thinking applied to pets, presaging the explosion of IoT and connected health devices.
Scanadu Scout: The First Medical Tricorder
Scanadu Scout's Indiegogo campaign for a handheld medical sensor that measures vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, SpO2) in seconds by touching the forehead. One of the most-funded health crowdfunding campaigns of 2013, invoking the Star Trek tricorder as its design aspiration.
Q&A: Pebble Smartwatch Designer Talks $3 Million-Plus Kickstarter Success
Wired's Q&A with Pebble co-founder Eric Migicovsky after the smartwatch campaign blew past $3M on Kickstarter, making it the most funded project at the time. A document of the moment crowdfunding proved it could launch a hardware product category.
Pebble Watch: The Most Successful Kickstarter Project Ever (Forbes)
Forbes coverage of Pebble Watch's Kickstarter record-breaking campaign — a second angle on the same story covered by Wired, showing how broadly the Pebble crowdfunding success was covered across tech media in April 2012.