An Analysis of Wearable Technology's Societal Transformations

This essay examines the significant impact of wearable technology, particularly smartwatches and similar devices, on modern society. It highlights how these technologies are transforming various aspects of life, including health and fitness tracking, personal efficiency, and social innovation. The essay discusses the potential of smartwatches to raise awareness for charities, improve healthcare through personalized health information and early illness detection, and even aid in crime prevention by providing verifiable location data and photographic evidence. Furthermore, it emphasizes the role of wearable devices in assisting vulnerable individuals by monitoring vital signs and broadcasting distress signals. The essay references how these devices are contributing to a more self-confident, intelligent, and controlled society by providing users with valuable data and insights to manage various aspects of their lives. The integration of wearable technology is creating new opportunities for societal advancement and personal empowerment.

Wearable technology has been touted as one of the most important applications of the Internet of
Things, and with good reason. The wearable electronic displayed by the consumers transforms
the ways of the lives. The smart watches and devices like Fitbit have allowed the people to track
their exercise and the health progress in the manner not possible before. These smart watches are
seen to have brought about the power of smartphones into the wrist of the wearer. The mass
adoption of the smart watches helps in creating opportunities for social innovation.
1. Replace charity wristbands
Since 2004, the charity awareness wristbands were seen to explode in the popularity and around
800 million of these were sold by Livestrong along. These charity awareness wristbands are now
more popular as compared to the charity pin badges. The retailer cuts, production costs and the
shipping expenses meant that the charities are benefitting very little in terms of the finance from
their sales. However they are seen to have an awareness raising effect and are even termed as the
gateway donation where the people on the charity books are seen to be highly exposed to the
valuable calls for acting. With the help of smart watches, the awareness can be raised for ones
favourite charity using the branded watch face on the wrist. This will help in delivering more
funds to the charity. (HAWORTH, M., 2015).
2. Healthy society
The smart watches are potential for the people who want to track their fitness and health and are
helpful in maintaining a society with high health. These smart watches are help in keeping a
close check on the health and provides a personalized health and fitness information. This has
been highly revolutionary in the health industry and also has been allowing the individuals to be
highly aware of their health and their personal selves. In the near future, the smart watches would
also been able determine the period when the person would be highly prone to being sick.

3. Controlled lives
The usage of these devices are helpful in boosting the creativity as well as the personal efficiency
for the individuals along with helping them to stay in constant touch with their friends and
family. These electronic devices are seen to be designed for fashion as well as functions and help
in generating the data which can easily be stored as well as analysed in the cloud. This stored
data can easily be stored as well as analysed in the cloud. These insights can easily be
downloaded from the clouds and stored at any point of time enabling them to manage all their
career ambitions, fitness goals, personal relationships and finances. Therefore, these wearable
devices and smart watches have made the societies highly self-confident, intelligent and in
control with their lives.
4. Fighting crime
There are wearable camera which are able to snap the photograph after every thirty seconds and
take photos without someone holding up or aiming a camera for alerting others present nearby to
the fact that the image has been captured. Therefore, these smart watches and wearable can act as
the perfect alibi. The user can provide the police with the Google Latitude location record as one
of the legitimate proof of the location. These smart watches can also help in geotagging,
timestamped point-of-view photos and videos. Therefore, the smart watches or wearable would
not only vibrate the social issue and raise awareness regarding the issue but it can also help in
prompting people to act. (Bryant, M. (2013). This will be a creative and innovative step towards
fighting the crime and reporting it to police as soon as possible. Therefore, this aspect of the
smart wearable is highly beneficial for the society.
5. Saving the lives of the vulnerable

The smart watches and wearable are seen to have one of the most critical part termed as sensors
which contains the pedometer and the heart rate monitor. These sensors are effective in
monitoring the condition and with further innovatory work would even help in locating the
vulnerable. Therefore, the sudden and dramatic problems like heart failure to low blood sugar
and petit mal seizures would easily be tracked. The smart watch can be used for broadcasting a
distress signal for emergency services, social workers and family giving instruction to the wearer
on how to cope up with the situation and problem until the help arrives.
This will help the society to be highly alert and helping towards the wearer at the same time.

References
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