Outlook 2015: Human-machine integration in wearable areas

On December 24, as the 2014 year approached, people turned back to all the mobile and wearable devices that had been introduced in the coming years, and I wondered why many of these devices did not use human bodies.

We all know that human-computer integration will come at some point in the future, but now it might be worth guessing that human-computer integration will be the first to appear on consumer electronics.

I think so is not groundless, the emergence of several products this year inspired me.

One of them is Thync, a head-and-wear device that can vibrate the bones of the head. The skull vibrates to produce an electronic waveform or an ultrasonic shape to indicate the neural pathways within the brain. When a particular neural channel is stimulated, a shift in the user's mental state or energy level is triggered.

Thync received 13 million dollars from Khosla ventures. Thync company said it will launch its products in 2015.

The head-wearing device developed by Interaxon Muse can detect neurological activity, so users can achieve more meditative state through physiological feedback.

Another wearable product comes from the Cicret company. In the past few months, the product has been very strong, gaining more and more attention and interest. The company's smart bracelets include a tiny miniature projector that can project a screen or user interface on the user's forearm. Users can use this projection of the image touch screen.

However, many people think that the smart bracelet developed by Cicret is a complete farce. But interest in and attention to the device is a sign of optimism. People like the idea of making the body part of a technology product, and the body part of the smart bracelet is skin.

In the case of Thync, it may be necessary to have some very disturbing methods in order to produce nerve signals without the help of skin and bones. But again, the head-wearing device Thync the user's head into an extended part of the device.

Engineers should also like the idea. As people try to cram more technology into smaller spaces, the problem of space shortages in new technology products has become increasingly prominent, and some of the core functions of these technologies are unloaded from technology products and implanted into certain parts of the human body, which is an ace in the way of solving the problem.

The current situation of technology products is that in the limited physical space of scientific and technological equipment, the overall performance of the features and functions of technological equipment is usually completely limited.

If the Thync and the smart bracelets developed by Cicret Company provide examples, we may see more intelligent products in the near future will use the human body as an unprecedented form of innovation, the human body as a natural extension of intelligent products, so as to achieve human-machine integration.

Looking forward to the 2015, in order to overcome the space bottleneck of technology products, it is really a good idea to put some core technology of technology products into human body. It is believed that this technology will get people's attention, thus encouraging technology companies to invest more research in this area to help push wearable devices to a real leap.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)