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by Sander Saar
A brief look into early wearable concepts and devices, from the abacus ring and mechanical timepieces to computerized wearables created by Steve Mann. Along the way it covers Fitness Tracking & Nike FuelBand, The Rise of Early Smartwatches and Smart Glasses and Wearable Cameras. The growth of mass-market smartwatches powered by Android Wear and the release of the Apple Watch.
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A brief look into early wearable concepts and devices, from the abacus ring and mechanical timepieces to computerized wearables created by Steve Mann.
On screen: A presenter speaks to the camera outdoors on a city sidewalk while picture-in-picture graphics of a traditional abacus and an abacus ring are displayed.
Exploring the shift to computerized fitness wearables, beginning with shoe dongles and the motivating impact of the Nike FuelBand.
On screen: A man sits on a street bench talking to the camera as graphics of a Casio calculator watch and Nike+ sensors appear alongside him.
The introduction of early consumer smartwatches, including MetaWatch, Martian watches, and Pebble's record-breaking Kickstarter campaign.
On screen: A man sits outside discussing smartwatches, with product images of the MetaWatch and Pebble smartwatches displayed as insets.
A look at experimental lifelogging and wearable hardware including Google Glass, Narrative Clip cameras, and smart shirts.
On screen: The presenter speaks to the camera from a street bench as inset graphics display the Mio Alpha watch and the OMsignal smart shirt.
The growth of mass-market smartwatches powered by Android Wear and the release of the Apple Watch.
On screen: A man sits outside speaking to the camera while graphic insets display various Android Wear smartwatches and the Apple Watch lineup.
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0:01–0:13 A young man stands on a city sidewalk addressing the camera directly with street traffic and pedestrians passing behind him. On screen: RED ERNA www
0:15–0:16 Animated motion graphic title cards display the series name and author against a grunge-textured background. On screen: WEARABLES FROM BACKPACK TO SMARTWATCHES
0:19–0:35 A presenter speaks to the camera outdoors on a city sidewalk while picture-in-picture graphics of a traditional abacus and an abacus ring are displayed. On screen: REDGALLERY
0:36–0:51 A host talks outdoors on a city sidewalk alongside an inset picture of an early wristwatch and historical portrait. On screen: RED REDGALLERY ERNE www
0:51–1:00 A young man speaks directly to the camera on a city sidewalk with traffic moving behind him. On screen: REDGALLERY THE GUARDIAN ERN RED
1:00–1:08 A man talks outdoors on a city sidewalk alongside picture-in-picture historical photos of shoe and roulette wearable computers. On screen: RED GALLERY RED Belly Pack Computer Roulette-Comput
1:11–1:18 A young man in a jacket and graphic t-shirt stands on a city sidewalk speaking to the camera with urban buildings and traffic in the background. On screen: REDGALLERY CREATIVE GUARDIANS www.redgallerylondon.com ERN www RED
1:19–1:27 A side-by-side photographic timeline shows Steve Mann demonstrating various wearable computing systems from 1980 through the late 1990s. On screen: (a) 1980 (b) Mid 1980s (c) Early 1990s (d) Mid 1990s (e) Late 1999 Late 199 M.I.T. RED
1:27–1:35 A young man speaks directly to the camera while gesturing with his hands on an urban London street with passing traffic. On screen: ERN REDGALLERY RED MOVIES CREATIVE GUARDIANS www.redgallerylondon.com
1:35–1:42 A young man stands on an urban sidewalk speaking directly to the camera and gesturing with his hands while vehicles and pedestrians move in the background. On screen: REDGALLERY www ERNA ON
1:43–1:52 The presenter stands in the center talking to the camera outdoors, surrounded by a collage of early wearable computers and smartwatch prototypes. On screen: TIMEX DATA LINK 16-07-08 8:02.13 WED TZ1 Microsoft DGALLERY www ABACUS
1:52–2:17 A man sits on a street bench talking to the camera as graphics of a Casio calculator watch and Nike+ sensors appear alongside him. On screen: JOAN HUDSON & COMPANY 93 www.frankbrightabel.com TABERNACLE STREET EC2 TAKE-AWAY FR ERN
2:17–2:37 A man sits outside talking to the camera while inset product pictures of the Nike+ FuelBand display at the bottom. On screen: & COMPANY www.frankbrightabel.com TAKE-AWAY FUEL 6:52
2:37–3:07 A man sits outside discussing smartwatches, with product images of the MetaWatch and Pebble smartwatches displayed as insets. On screen: JOAN HUDSON & COMPANY 93 www.frankbrightabel.com Tabernacle Street EC2 TAKE-AWA ER twelve thirty five 28:56 4.08mi 7:05 o'clock
3:07–3:30 A young man sits outdoors on a city street speaking to the camera, with inset graphics appearing showing a Martian smartwatch and Google Glass footage. On screen: 93 www.frankbrightabel.com N HUDSON & COMPANY TAKE-AWA 8:22 Filmed with John Smith M d with Google Glass
3:30–3:51 A young man sits on an outdoor sidewalk speaking to the camera, with inset pictures appearing displaying him wearing smart glasses and showcasing the Narrative Clip wearable lifelogging camera. On screen: www.frankbrightabel.com TAKE-AWA N HUDSON & COMPANY 93
3:51–4:17 The presenter speaks to the camera from a street bench as inset graphics display the Mio Alpha watch and the OMsignal smart shirt. On screen: JOAN HUDSON & COMPANY 93 www.frankbrightabel.com 1 nk T TAKE- ADT 91 ERN 9
4:17–4:20 A host gestures as he speaks outdoors on a stone bench, with an inset image of Steve Mann wearing early wearable technology shown in the bottom left corner. On screen: JOAN HUDSON & COMPANY 93 www.frankbrightabel.com Tabernacle Street EC2 TAKE-AWAY ER N Frank
4:20–4:33 The presenter speaks animatedly to the camera on a city sidewalk while various wearable technology images are composited around him. On screen: JOAN HUDSON & COMPANY 93 Tabernacle Street EC2 www.frankbrightabel.com TAKE-AWAY FUEL Oculus
4:33–5:03 A man sits outside speaking to the camera while graphic insets display various Android Wear smartwatches and the Apple Watch lineup. On screen: 93 www.frankbrightabel.com TAKE-AWA powered by android wear SFO - YYZ 12:45 72° 2:30 WATCH
5:03–5:14 A young man sits on an outdoor bench on a city sidewalk, gesturing and speaking directly to the camera. On screen: JOAN HUDSON & COMPANY 93 www.frankbrightabel.com London Borough of Hackney Tabernacle Street EC2 TAKE-AWAY ERN
5:15–5:20 Animated title cards show the episode and series titles against a grunge paper texture. On screen: WEARABLES FROM BACKPACK TO SMARTWATCHES CHNOLOGY SAAR I BEILEVE IN TECHNOLOGY BY SANDER SAAR
5:20–5:27 The host sits outside on a street curb talking to the camera as pedestrians pass and play behind him. On screen: JOAN HUDSON & COMPANY ADT 93 www.frankbrightabel.com Tabernacle Street TAKE-AWAY ER ink
5:28–5:30 The video fades to a dark black screen ending the episode.
0:00 Speaker A: Hi, this is Sander from I Believe in technology. Speaker B: I think it's time we talk about. Speaker A: Wearables, those miniature electronic devices that you can wear under, with or on top of your clothes. Speaker B: Let's have a look. Speaker A: Wearables as we know them today are actually a relatively new technology, though the idea, or the dream dates back to the 16th century when people were trying to put abacus to their ring.
0:32 Speaker A: So rather than doing it on a. Speaker B: Big, big machine, you can actually take it with you. Speaker A: In the 19th century, it was the. Speaker B: First time when timepieces were put on. Speaker A: The wrist, and it was one of the French Swiss Breguet watchmakers who made it for the King of Naples to start wearing it. Speaker A: Now it's taken over the world and you see people around you wearing watches all over. Speaker A: It wasn't until the 20th century when. Speaker B: The emergence of computerized timing devices started coming along.
0:57 Speaker A: And one of the most well known was the one that was built into the shoe. Speaker A: And the computer was put into the size of a cigarette pack in order to go to the casinos and try to trick or cheat the system. Speaker A: It never really took off because of the power of the computers, but the idea was already there until the 1970s, when Steve Mann developed the first or actually invented the computerized wearables as we know them today, which have complex algorithms, interface and data management behind them.
1:27 Speaker A: He worked really hard to bring those big computerized systems into miniature versions that. Speaker B: Could actually become part of your life. Speaker A: The commercial trials started in the beginning of the 2000s, actually, so no more than 15 years ago when Cypat, CyberNote, IBM, Fossil, Seiko, they were all trialing to bring out their own computerized wearable technologies.
1:52 Speaker B: My first wearable experience was probably in the end of 90s when I was using a Casio wristwatch which had a calculator on top of it, so I can use that in school. Speaker B: But the real computerized wearable was I think 2011 when Nike launched this Nike dongle that attached to your running shoes and had another dongle connecting to your ipod Nano. Speaker B: Then you can measure the pace, the distance and the speed that you were running with. Speaker B: But it was in 2012 where really the kind of next generation, the Nike Fuel band came out that changed my behavior.
2:24 Speaker B: So it helped me to connect with my friends, compete with my friends, but also measure my performance on a daily basis. Speaker B: It motivated me to exercise and move more to achieve my Nike Fuel score or the number of steps that I wanted to do in a day. Speaker B: I bought my first smartwatch in 2012. Speaker B: And it was from MetaWatch, which was an open source project that brought the first hardware with 4.0 Bluetooth for iOS and Android devices. Speaker B: It needed a little bit of technical know how to get it up to speed, but it was doable to get your notifications on your wrist.
2:54 Speaker B: The same year pebble launched their Kickstarter campaign, being the most successful to raising more than 10 million for the first campaign. Speaker B: And it also was the first proof that something like could become a mass market product. Speaker B: Pebble was also start of the smartwatch industry, so to say there were more and many more campaigns coming on. Speaker B: One of them was a Martian watch that I was using which had a speaker and microphone built. Speaker B: In the same year Google also announced Google Glass.
3:20 Speaker B: Trying to kind of test the market with developers and hopefully bring this to mass market product. Speaker B: You can see my review and my thoughts on Google Glass just here if you're interested in more. Speaker B: But we all know now what happened. Speaker B: It's now just used for B2B use cases. Speaker B: And other companies were experimenting with wearables. Speaker B: For example, lifelogging became a trend when Memento, now called Narrative Clip, came out with their wearable camera which I was actually very happy to use as well.
3:48 Speaker B: I'm now waiting for the next generation to come out. Speaker B: Same year I also started to use a MYO Alpha watch which was the first optical heart rate monitor for your wrist so you didn't have to wear the chest belt to measure your heart rate. Speaker B: Last year also there was another company, OM Signals, coming out with a shirt that actually was connected to your smartphone so you can measure your breathing, your heart rate, your sweat and all the other metrics which I didn't find very comfortable.
4:15 Speaker B: And I'm not sure that's the right fit. Speaker B: As you can see, this Steven Mann's first project in the 1970s really sparked out the whole community working in all kinds of different directions, bringing wearables to military, to fashion, to health, to augmented reality. Speaker B: It's just endless. Speaker B: And now since 2014 we have Android Wear which has some great, great hardware from Asus ZenWatch or Moto 360 which is one of my favorites.
4:43 Speaker B: You have LG G watch or G Watch R. You also have Sony in the mix, Samsung with their Galaxy Gear and also this year just Apple coming out with their much anticipated Apple Watch, which really shows that smartwatches could become the first category inside wearables to go into a mass market product. Speaker B: I hope you enjoyed this quick video on wearables. Speaker B: If you want to see more of my thoughts on Apple Watch and Android Wear.
5:09 Speaker B: Just click on the video here. Speaker B: Thanks for watching.