Medscape August 24, 2022
Jerilyn Covert

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the future of wearable tech. Part one (read here) explores what future wearables will look like and what they will accomplish.

Pick up your smartphone. Yes, you’ve held it a thousand times, it’s like an extension of your hands. But let’s do an experiment: Grab it by both ends and stretch it out as far as it will go. Now twist it. Wrap it around your forearm. Cool, right? Now let it snap back.

Wait, what do you mean your phone won’t bend and stretch?

That little exercise in imagination illustrates what’s possible in the realm of wearables — electronic devices we wear close to or on our skin....

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