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    NXP Semiconductors  480  0 Kommentare The Wearable Revolution Has Already Begun

    SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 17, 2014) - NXP Semiconductors has been actively developing technology for the first true wearable, hearing aids, for nearly two decades. NXP believes health-related applications will become a key driver for the success of wearables.

    There is plenty of discussion these days about 'wearable technology', and many consumer electronics companies have ventured into the market with a range of offerings. Everything from 'smart watches' and augmented reality glasses, to t-shirts printed with graphics that respond to sound. Many of these are still in their infancy or are destined to be short-lived gadgets, and so far none of these products can be said to have made a significant impact on consumers.

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    However, in the health sector, wearable technology has both found a ready market and is already making a significant impact. While applied mostly for treatment today, wearable technology can have far bigger impact if applied earlier in the health care cycle: increasing individual's health consciousness, coaching them to live healthier and screening for early signs of diseases.

    Wearables will empower the worried-well to take ownership of their health, and facilitate assisted living for the elderly or disabled. Wearables can help prevent, diagnose early and more effectively treat diseases and lower healthcare system costs.

    Beneficial to both individuals and society, health-related applications will become the key driver for the success of wearables. Not surprisingly, recent announcements of wearable market shapers demonstrate their increased health focus.

    The first true wearable

    It could be said that the original and most widely used type of wearable device is the hearing instrument. Well over 12 million devices are supplied every year, making it the de facto largest and a long-lived wearable market.

    Electrical technology for these has a history as long as the telephone -- replacing the traditional (and questionably effective!) hearing trumpets when people started adapting telephone receivers to help improve their hearing. Wearability of hearing instruments evolved when moving to vacuum tube and later discrete transistor amplification. When Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958, one of its first commercial applications was the BTE (behind-the-ear) hearing aid.

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    NXP Semiconductors The Wearable Revolution Has Already Begun SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 17, 2014) - NXP Semiconductors has been actively developing technology for the first true wearable, hearing aids, for nearly two decades. NXP believes health-related applications will become a key driver for the …