An illustration from Toyota’s patent No. 10024667 that demonstrates a wearable “intelligent earpiece” that can recognize objects to give social and environmental awareness to the user. The earpiece includes one camera, GPS and a processor connected to the inertial measurement unit (IMU).
Fort Worth-based medical device company MedHab developed the wearable automatic fall detection technology and app powered by a proprietary artificial intelligence algorithm. [Photos: Meredith McGrath]