Wearable, the wearable technology

Smartwatch that control how many steps we do during the day, bracelets that measure quality and quantity of sleep, t-shirts that control the heartbeat and tell us if we are seated correctly: these are just some of the wearable devices and connected to the network that promise to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, or almost.

In recent years, the progressive miniaturization of all the electronic components, the collapse of production costs and the ductility of the materials have enabled the integration of processors and sensors in almost any everyday object: from clothing to shoes, from jewelery to kitchenware, from ornaments to toys, everything can be made intelligent and connected to the cost of a few euro.

What you can do to really all this technology,

when worn and connected?

THE GRANDFATHER OF WEARABLE. The first wearable electronic device (wearable) dates back to the 60s of the last century. It was developed by Claude Shannon and Edward Thorp: the first, one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of all time, the latter a professor of mathematics at MIT fascinated by the possibility of being able to defeat the dealer in games of chance, provided you use the appropriate mathematical algorithms.

The two, the drop points, the speed and time of rotation of the turntable, had built a complex algorithm actually able to increase by 44% after long studied the physics of roulette, the trajectory of the ball, the probability of winning at the table.

Confezionarono all in a trusted microcomputer as a pack of cigarettes, connected with a thin wire to a hearing aid. They hid the little computer in a shoe and went to try it on the field in Las Vegas. At every turn of the wheel with the big toe commanded the computer so that would record the time of the passage of the ball on some points of reference.

With these data the returned machine, in the form of musical note, the sector in which the wheel would stop the sphere. It worked so well ... that Nevada outlawed it in 1985.