Wearable Tech

Top 10 Wearable Tech Brands You May Go Crazy About

Every time wearable technology is mentioned, most people think of some wrist worn devices that are not quite good looking or fitness trackers and new smart watches that they cannot imagine spending the whole day wearing them. They do not view wearable gadgets as fashionable. However, these tech brands have brought about experimentations, which have helped the industry to move forward. Here are the top 10 wearable tech brands that have proven to be fashionable despite their small size.

1. Google and Levi’s Project Jacquard

The Google Jacquard Trucker Jacket x Levi’s Commuter is a wearable tech that is specially created for urban cyclists. The conductive yarn is perfectly weaved at the left cuff to enable touch interactivity so that users can swipe, hold or tap to enable simple tasks such as answering or blocking calls, changing music tracks and accessing navigation information. In addition to its functionality answer, it looks great while at it. This is because it resembles a jean jacket, but not some piece of technology. It is a perfect accessory for cyclists.

2.The Unseen

This wearable tech brand is London based and was founded by Bowker Lauren. It has successfully captured the idea of colors, which change based on the interactions of the user or the environment. The resulting Selfridges accessories included a phone case, scarf, backpack and much more. These could respond to things such as touch, sunlight, wind, body temperature and air pressure.

3.Emel + Aris

This make a success story having been able to raise around £100,000 in March 2016. This was during the official launch of their smart coat. Similar to Google and Levi’s, this wearable tech brand does not have the slightest resemblance of a technology. It looks like some outwear for both women and men. In addition, it includes hidden heating and intelligent technology inside. It is made using a lightweight polymer instead of loads of wires. It functions by producing heat energy that is absorbed by the body to increase blood flow and heat muscles.

4. Wearable Experiments

Wearable Experiments were found by Billie Whitehouse. She introduced Fan Jersey, which is a shirt that American football fans can put on to enable them feel major plays. The haptic vibrations are connected via Bluetooth and occur together with the game. This results to an emotional attachment with the wearer. It helps wearers feel the heartbeats of the players and this helps to draw them closer to the game. This gives tension a whole new meaning.

5.Zenta

This is a wrist-worn wearable from Vinaya. It has made tremendous sales exceeding its $100,000 goal. It allows users to switch off digital noise to remain connected to their priority smartphone notifications. In addition, Zenta is able to track emotions. It has successfully tapped in the market for mindfulness and wellness by monitoring sleep quality, activity, stress levels, breathing patterns, and overall mood as well as emotion states. In addition, it is in a position to connect its biometric sensing tech with machine algorithms learning. This enables it to learn about the user with time.

6.Thesis Couture

These are arguably the highest performance stilettos in the world. They are great shoes made by Thesis Couture and are functionality designed. This means that they are able to combine being great high heels and comfortable at the same time. The combined efforts of an orthopedic surgeon, shoe designer, Italian shoe maker and a rocket scientist successfully created this shoe. It has a ballistic grade polymer that ensures that it does not feel painful underfoot.

7. VFiles x XO

This clothing is specially designed for specific shoppers. These are the Generation Z consumers looking for street wear. The clothing comprises of some accessories and fiber optic apparel. Later this year, a rucksack and cap are expected to retail. This will enable wearers to change patterns and colors on the surface to respond to music through an app.

8. The Modern Meadows

This is a company that grows materials such as leather in a lab. This means that, it is in a position to engineer and design leather to give it a new meaning. Not only does it make the leather a better and sustainable material, but adds some additional performance properties to it that could not exist in nature. Back in Wired UK, the chief creative expert at Modern Meadow, Suzanne Lee said that, the 21st century is all about biotechnology as well as some nylons and chemistry facilitated synthetics. She has hopes that these types of fabrics will form the heart of biotechnology within a decade.

9. Spiber

This wearable tech brand is engineered using the spider silk space. Since 2007, a research company based in Japan has been doing some research on how such polymers can be produced in large amounts. It is currently working with the North Face. Late last year, it launched The Moon Parka, which is a prototype jacket.

10. Bolt Threads

This is among the buzziest 2015 announcements. Based in San Francisco, Bolt Threads is a company that brews spider silk protein. This is done in fermentation vats and later spanned into yarn. This bioengineering surpasses the common view of wearables. It is among the most and recent exciting future developments in fashion. Spider silk is by far stronger compared to Kelvar. This makes it more durable than even Lycra. However, Lycra is much more flexible. In order to avail products on the market in 2018, Bolt Threads has opted to raise $50 million in C Funding series.

Conclusion

Fashion tech now has a whole new meaning. Most launches have proved to be incredible when it comes to experimentations. This has positively impacted the industry by moving it forward.