Medical Xpress April 4, 2025
Wearables such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, or data glasses have become an integral part of our everyday lives. They record health data, monitor your sleep, or calculate your calorie consumption.
Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed the open-source platform “OpenEarable.” It integrates a multitude of sensors into wireless earphones with the aim to enhance health measurements and safety applications in medicine, industry, and everyday life. The scientists are currently presenting their platform at Hannover Messe from March 31 to April 4.
Wearable technologies have made significant progress in recent years, but many of the existing systems are either proprietary, i.e., not customizable by others, or their measurement capabilities are limited.
With OpenEarable 2.0, a research team headed...
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