Wearables

• [New] During the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, self-service carts, vending machines and stores will issue wearable payment devices that will allow easy use of the digital yuan. / South China Morning Post
• [New] The high penetration of smartphones and wearables will drive a surge in the contactless payments market in the coming years. / IndustryWired
• The global wearable injectors market is expected to grow from $5.145 billion in 2020 to $5.709 billion in 2021 at a compound annual growth rate of 11%. / Yahoo Finance
• Fitbit, Apple Watch and other wearable fitness devices might provide insight into the long-term effects of COVID-19 by tracking patients' recovery. / Global Marketing Development Center
• The market for eSIM and iSIM devices - which includes smartphones, wearables and cellular IoT devices - will be worth more than €6 billion by 2025. / Telecoms.com
• Maybe your future vision includes wearable technology - one milestone along the way to meeting that vision is technology companies like Apple or Google will produce wearable tech, such as a consumer-friendly, less geeky version of Google Glass. / Design Thinking
• Citing multiple reports, including Markets and Markets, Travers projected that by 2025, the entire wearables market would reach around $70 billion. / Benzinga
• A company like Apple could be a major player in the development of consumer-facing AR headsets in the next two to three years. / Marketing Dive
• A team of researchers from Mount Sinai Health System in New York has used wearable devices to predict exacerbations of disease in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, such as Crohn's disease. / admin
• Garmin's move signals that the booming market for wearable devices, with approximately $73 billion by 2022, can find additional leverage among women. / The New York Times
• A research team at Mount Sinai Health System in New York used wearables to predict disease flare-ups in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's. / The Verge
• In 2025, the wearable market is expected to reach 168.4 million units in Europe and grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.9% for 2020-2025. / IDC: The premier global market intelligence company
• Current and future market trends that are influencing the growth opportunities and growth rate of the global Wearable Technology Market. / Next Biz Post
• Anatomy Of Consumer Payments cited research that the wearable technology market is set to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 14% to reach $82 billion by 2026. / PYMNTS.com
• Companies offering remote urgent care, virtual primary care and new wearable technologies to monitor patient health are exploding, with the annual global telehealth market expected to top $300 billion by 2026, up nearly fivefold from 2019. / USA Today
• The total global addressable market for wearable technologies, for example, could be roughly $32.6 billion. / Technology Stock Market News
• Going forward, Wear OS will take the best parts of Samsung's Tizen OS and Google-owned Fitbit to create a new unified platform for wearables. / Gizmodo
• VT's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute will use wearable optically pumped magnetometry devices to measure brain signals in real-time while volunteers perform various tasks. / Health Imaging
• One way fans can engage with wearables is by using athlete data to predict outcomes. / University of Michigan News
• The widespread adoption of wearable and mobile technologies around the world offers new opportunities for researchers to provide medical care and information in a portable and affordable way. / JMIR mHealth and uHealth
• Wearables are again increasing in importance, with global purchases of wearable devices for the full year up 28.4% from the prior year and expected to increase an additional 18.1% in the coming year. / PR Newswire
• The wearable payment device market for the retail and grocery stores is expected to grow at the highest CAGR from 2021 to 2026. / Yahoo sport uk

Last updated: 25 July 2021