Smart watch - Basis

What makes Basis stand out from all other smart watches? Reason is simple: more professional, less price. This watch has 4 different sensors: optical blood flow, accelerometer, perspiration monitor, and skin temperature, which enables comprehensive tracking on human's health condition. 

And its price is not high at all. On Amazon.com, it sells for $199 for the newest edition. 

Nest - Smart Thermostat

A Thermostat for the Smartphone Generation

The Nest Learning Thermostat learns what temperatures you like, turns itself
down when you're away and can be controlled from anywhere over Wi-Fi.

• Auto-Schedule - Remembers the temperatures you like and programs itself
• Auto-Away - Saves energy by automatically turning itself down when you're away
• Remote control - Connect the Nest thermostat to Wi-Fi to control it from your smartphone, laptop or tablet
• Easy install - Most people install the Nest thermostat in 30 minutes or less

Currently sold at Amazon for $249. 

Smart Lock Activated by Bluetooth

August is getting ready to start shipping its first product, the August Smart Lock. The lock, which was designed by Yves Behar, enables homeowners and renters to access their homes or send virtual keys to others via mobile app. The August smart lock uses Bluetooth technology to enable users to automatically unlock a door when they are nearby, and it also has a feature called Everlock that can automatically lock a door behind you.

Beyond Nike+: This Smart Sock Tracks Workouts, And It’s Washable

THANKS TO CLOTH SENSORS, THIS SOCK CAN TRACK HOW YOU RUN BUT STAYS SOFT AND MACHINE WASHABLE. AND IT TEASES A FUTURE OF SMART CLOTHING TO COME.

The Sensoria Smart Sock is on Indiegogo now. You can pre-order a pair of three for $60, but the anklet will push the price into the low triple digits.

Google patents lie-detecting throat tattoo

Human being can no longer stop Google -

Google/Motorola has filed a patent for a throat tattoo which not only blocks out background noise in a bid to make telephone conversations in crowded restaurants easier, but also flashes when it thinks you are lying.

According to the patent filed last week in the US by Motorola, who are owned by Google, the tattoo could solve the problem of strained telephone conversations in “large stadiums, busy streets, restaurants and emergency situations”.

“Communication can reasonably be improved and even enhanced with a method and system for reducing the acoustic noise in such environments and contexts”, the patent reads.

The unnamed device would serve as an “auxiliary voice input to a mobile communication device”; essentially a noise-cancelling microphone for your mobile phone which you stick on your neck.

But the tattoo’s creators also envisage it could have lie-detecting capabilities.

Equipped with a display that lights up under certain conditions, “the electronic skin tattoo can further include a galvanic skin response detector to detect skin resistance of a user.”

The patent continues: “It is contemplated that a user may be nervous or engaging in speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response than a more confident, truth telling individual.”

Although the device has merely been filed as a patent, meaning it may never be tested or produced, its designers imagine its use would extend beyond humans.

“Here it is contemplated that the electronic tattoo can also be applied to an animal as well”, the patent says.

“Audio circuitry can also include a microphone for emitting sound corresponding to fluctuations of muscle or tissue in the throat.”

Smart Wheel Instantly Makes Your Bike Electric

A group of Slovenians have created the FlyKly Smart Wheel, which turns any bike into an electric bike, with an open API and the ability to incorporate crowdsourced intelligence.

This is a nine-pound pedal assist wheel containing a super-thin motor and lithium battery. When using the wheel, cyclists can go up to 20 mph for 30 miles without pedaling before they need to recharge. While that’s not enough for a long bike trip, it leaves ample battery power for short jaunts around a city.

Installing the wheel is easy. Just remove a bike’s rear wheel, replace it with the Smart Wheel, and start riding. Set the top speed via the FlyKly app (currently compatible with iPhone, Android, and the Pebble watch, but the Smart Wheel API is open source), and keep track of distance, battery, time traveled, and speed as you ride. The Smart Light comes included and features a handlebar smartphone holder and the ability to recharge an onboard LED light (and mobile electronics) while you pedal.

While the Smart Wheel is optimized for city riding, it’s also a fancy object that’s ripe for the picking by bike thieves. However, the wheel can be locked by pressing a button on the app and an onboard GPS means that a stolen wheel can be tracked and recovered.

To test paddle it, the Smart Wheel is available on Kickstarter starting at $550.

Electronic tattoo tracks the heat running through your veins

John Rogers, a University of Illinois researcher, has been working on a series of super-thin, flexible electronics that are both wearable and totally unnoticeable to their wearer — they’re so thin, they’ve often been referred to as electronic tattoos. His research team’s latest device contains a hypersensitive thermometer that he says can do the job of a quarter-million dollar thermal infrared camera, even though it costs only pennies worth of parts. Not only can the wearable thermometer do the same job, Rogers says that it can do it better: because it attaches to the skin, it can measure temperature over a long period of time, during a person’s day-to-day activities, and without its target shifting around and introducing inaccuracies to a camera’s steady sensor.

For certain people who can’t properly control their body temperatures, knowing their skin temperature as far down as to the millikelvin (about two one-thousandths of a degree Fahrenheit), as this device allows, can let physicians tell exactly what’s going on underneath it. The device can watch how heat flows through the bloodstream, or see how the dilation and constriction of blood vessels subtly alters the temperature around them.

Applying this wearable thermometer to the skin may be just the beginning, however. Roger’s team is experimenting with how the device could be applied to internal organs, even being placed right against the interior wall of the heart to measure its own properties. Right now that’s just temperature, but additional sensors could be added on to report back an even richer body of detail.