This post comes from our work experience person Grace – thank you Grace!


Hi I’m Grace…. I am 14 and I am on work experience. At school I have chosen to take geography, PE and health and social.


 What is Wearable Technology?

person wearing smart watchWearable technology is technology device which can be worn, most track health and fitness. Early wearable technology examples are hearing aids and a calculator watch which was created in 1875. Wearable technology started becoming popular in the 21st century. Wearable technology is good because it can have personal information, this can help with fitness wearables. They can be hands-free so you don’t have to carry it with you making it easier if you are into fitness or something which involves hands-free. They can store a lot of data. They can also cost a lot or cheap depending on the one you want. One big disadvantage of wearable technology is most of them have to be charged so they work which takes time.

Fitness Trackers

girl doing gymnastics wearing wifi headbandMost fitness wearables go around the wrist like a watch. Fitness wearables monitor the heart rate and some can monitor how many steps have been taken, how far you’ve walked and how many calories burned. The most popular and most talked about fitness tracker is the fit bit. Fit bits are sold in 50 countries and in 2016 22.3 million fit bits were sold. Fit bit is the top of the wearables brand but it could be getting taken over by other brands pretty soon.  A lot more brands have brought their own fitness trackers out a lot do similar things but depending on the price paid it could do more.

Wearables for pets

dog and catMost wearable technology for pets are for dogs and cats because it is mostly a collar or can be put on to collars, these are some examples of good wearable products for dogs and cats. GPS in dogs and cats collars so owners know where their pets are in case they go missing. There is now a collar that can monitor a dogs and cats health, for example it’s heart rate. There is now a fitness collar for dogs mostly but could be cats which can help them stay in shape it was designed to encourage owners to keep fit with their pets. Pet-cam is also a dog or cat collar
but this one can live stream videos of where your dogs or cat is. A final example is a LED light in collars and leads which lights up at night showing where a pet is which is really good for cats at night because it will make it easy for cars to see them.

The future

In the future there could be a lot of interesting new things these are some of what could come. Mood jumpers they will change colour depending on your mood juts like a mood ring does. Earrings that can find music depending on your mood.
Shoes that will turn movement into energy which will keep your feet at a temperature you want. It’s not just new things people think that in the future wearable technology could be more accurate , be able to do more things, battery life to last longer and could be cheaper.

In the future I think that there will be plenty more wearables but some that are around now won’t be or they will be better but will cost a lot more.

Thanks for reading- Grace