Wearable technology is all the rage. There was even a recent paper in JAMA about wearable technology. However, will wearables soon to be old news? What is the future? Joe Kvedar gives his thoughts on the topic:
Thus, we have plentiful pedometer apps…We’ve also solved how to run these apps in the background without disrupting the phone tasks or draining the battery. So, is it time to ask, “do we really need fitness wearables anymore”?
I’d frame the question a different way. Is the future of patient-generated data migrating to the mobile phone (the proverbial digital Swiss Army Knife of life) or will it be migrating to the realm of micro-sized wearable seeds, ingestibles, injectables, bandaids and the like? I was a fellow panelist with tech guru and futurist Nicholas Negroponte, and in an off-handed comment, he said that wearables are just a temporary fad and that the future is in ingestibles.
What is does an ingestible sensor look like? Take a look.