Israel rides high on wearable technology wave

By Guest Column Israel21c —— Bio and Archives June 11, 2014

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In the not-too-distant future, we’ll all be wearing the Internet of Things (IoT): sensor-embedded shirts transmitting heart-rate data to our doctor, eyeglasses surfing the Web, bracelets replacing credit cards. Dog collars will tell owners how much Fido ate; diapers will alert parents it’s time for a changing.

And inside much of that wearable technology will be Israeli ingenuity. “I think a lot of the wearables will come out of Israel,” predicts Robert Scoble, one of America’s most highly regarded “tech evangelists.” He was in Israel in mid-May for a series of events around the inaugural WearableTech Conference in Tel Aviv where participants from several countries explored what Israel can offer this rapidly emerging field. “Intel is investing in a wearables team here,” Scoble revealed in answer to a question from ISRAEL21c during his presentation at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). “There is imaging expertise in Haifa; GE does a lot of its imaging R&D here. And Israel has a lot of expertise in inkjet printing, so you might think about a printer that can spray transistors onto anything.” More...