Currently gathering momentum on Indiegogo right now is the Pilot smart earpiece, a device capable of translating foreign languages as you hear them.

The MIT Media Lab has recently developed metallic temporary tattoos which can communicate with other electronic devices such as sending signals to your mobile phone. They call it

James Dyson Award-winning prosthetic designers Open Bionics have established a collaboration with Konami (makers of Metal Gear Solid) to develop a new kind of creative prosthetic limb design. They call it the Phantom Limb Project.

Smart jewellery manufacturer Misfit has partnered up with Swarovski to develop a smart bracelet and pendant which combines activity tracking with a rather nice sparkling clock face function. It makes for both a very elegant and very functional piece of wearable technology.

With recent advances in body projection and motion tracking, it seems several designers and developers are revisiting the idea of projecting jewellery and accessories as light onto the body. Only this time, they've added a whole new level of functionality.

Not too long ago, Shapeways released a list of CAD/CAM made accessories produced by their designers containing technology which were designed to look like jewellery. It provides another nice example of how wearable technology is increasingly being designed like jewellery rather than sports accessories.

It seems we have recently started seeing a big momentum change in the fields of wearable tech and smart clothing. Recent innovations in embedded RFID technology (as I

Recently Barclaycard announced it’s latest foray into RFID-based contactless payment technology, with the Barclaycard bPay system. By embedding the touch pay system from their credit cards into wristbands,

It’s always fun to see what product designers come up with. It’s even more fun to think that we’ve now reached the point where music player technology