
Bust of Nero at Rome’s Capitoline Museum [Image by cjh1452000 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0]
Fast forward to modern day and wearables look a lot different. From the FitBit to smart watches, wearables and digital health are ushering in an era of big data and personalized solutions to health problems.
Even though wearable technology has changed dramatically since Nero’s time, Lux Research analyst Noa Ghersin said at last month’s Medical Sensor Design Conference that the essence of a wearable device remains the same.
“Whether it has to do with augmenting our eyesight or augmenting our clinical decision making, the idea really was to augment the human,” she said.