Wearable biometrics employed for health monitoring and advice, work safety
Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) has launched a study to evaluate the effectiveness of biometrics and other data gathered by…
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Study tests if smartwatch biometrics could spot early COVID-19 clues
Fans of siccing biometrics on COVID-19 have another possible solution. Purdue University is studying the possibility that an AI-enabled smartwatch…
Duke researchers to collect biometrics from wearables in search for early COVID-19 detection method
Do smartphones and biometric wearables already contain the data we need to know if we have become infected with the…
Apple considers biometric authentication for Apple Watch, Mac series
Apple may be adding Touch ID fingerprint biometric to Apple Watch and Series 2 will not support watchOS 7, industry…
New Nok Nok Labs SDK brings FIDO biometrics and token-based authentication to smart watches
Nok Nok Labs has announced the launch of an SDK to bring FIDO-based authentication with biometrics and secure tokens to…
Osram Opto launches compact IR sensors for 2D facial recognition in smart watches
Osram Opto Semiconductors has launched a pair of new infra-red biometric components with a compact form factor to provide 2D…
Smartwatches expected to pass fitness trackers in fast growing connected wearables market
Shipments of connected wearables will grow by a CAGR of 15.4 percent from 116.8 million in 2018 to 238.5 million…
Valencell technology integrated into smartwatch delivers biometric monitoring to banking customers
Valencell, Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Z-Smart have integrated Valencell’s PerformTek technology in G&D’s new payments-focused smartwatch targeting the banking…
Samsung continues to utilize speech recognition technology by Sensory
Sensory Inc. announced this past week that Samsung continues to utilize TrulyHandsfree technology to provide speech trigger and speech recognition…
Samsung patent uses veins for biometric authentication on wearable device
A newly published Samsung patent titled “Wearable Device and Method of Operating the Same” was filed on July 29, 2015…
