From ’70s Digital Watches to Today’s Wearable Tech

The first portable, accurate clock was invented back in 1510 but it would be more than 450 years later that things got digital, with the introduction of Hamilton’s Pulsar Time Computer (complete with numeric keypad). From there, it’s been a race to showcase the most technologically advanced features. Familiar names like Casio and tech giants including IBM have all spearheaded electronic updates to watches, but …

Sence Wearable Emotion Tracker

A device that charts your emotional spectrum using EKG technology

The world is awash in wearable technology but nothing translates scientific fact into the emotional understanding quite like Sence. Yes, with all the heart rate data that it accrues through scientifically-proven EKG technology on your wrist, the end result is overlaying a user’s emotional shifts and peaks onto their calendar—coinciding the information with events, meetings, workouts and more. With such information, users can pinpoint stress …

Recon Instruments: Jet Smart Glasses

The long-awaited sports-specific heads-up display comes equipped with a camera, GPS and seamless connectivity

Wearable technology presents no shortage of possibilities, applications, innovations and, of course, challenges. Though Google has put Glass on hold (for now), other more specialized tech-enabled eyewear concepts are becoming very real consumer products. We’ve been following the development of the Jet from Vancouver-based Recon Instruments for years. It began as an idea in 2008 and today, 16 April 2015, the Recon Jet is available …