What are wearables & RFIDs?

• Wearables 101: What they are & why you’ll be seeing a lot of them (How-To Geek)
• Wearable technology (Wikipedia)
• The wear, why & how (The Economist)
• Gamification (Wikipedia)
• The Apple Watch, Series 2 (Apple)
• How the Apple Watch works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
• FitBit
• How FitBit works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
• How does a pedometer work? (Explain That Stuff!)
• Pedometer take-apart (Evil Mad Scientist)
• What is a mercury switch? (wiseGEEK)
• Mercury switch (Wikipedia)
• How the (Nintendo) Wii works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
• What are accelerometers & how do they work? (Explain That Stuff!)
• Flight Radar 24: An app that uses the accelerometer in your phone (flightradar24)
• Apple Watch heart rate sensor: Everything you need to know (Tech Radar)
• A discussion about how the Apple Watch knows if you're standing or sitting...not sure if anyone really understands (Quora)
• How to use a trundle wheel (NSW Department of Education)
• Blindside Margaret River Classic White 2016 (Naked Wines)
• Google Glass (Google)
• Google Glass (Wikipedia)
• Snapchat Spectacles (Snapchat)
• We tried Snapchat Spectacles - here's what it's like (c|net)
• Smart ring (Wikipedia)
• Ingestibles, wearables & embeddables (Federal Communications Commission)
• How does your chip credit card work? It uses 'EMV', the technical standard for smart payment cards (Wikipedia)
• Radio-frequency identification, or RFID (Wikipedia)
• Radio frequency (RF & RFID) tags (Explain That Stuff!)
• RFID FAQ (RFID Journal)
• RFID tag tuning (Atmel)
• Apple's fight with Aussie banks over Apple Pay & iPhone NFC rages on (Gizmodo)
• Apple Pay explained: What is it & how does it work? (Pocket-lint)
• How Apple Pay & Google Wallet actually work (ars TECHNICA)
• How do antennas & transmitters work? (Explain That Stuff!)
• How anti-shoplifting devices work (How Stuff Works, Science)
• Samsung reveals 'Family Hub' fridge that orders food, plays films & lets you see inside it remotely (Daily Mail)
• The 'Amazon Go' shop in Seattle that doesn't have checkouts (Amazon)
• There's a smartphone-powered store in Sweden with no human cashiers (Gizmodo)
• Electromagnetic activation & deactivation of security tags (Wikipedia)
• How much does it cost to find a Higgs Boson? The cost of the Large Hadron Collider (Forbes)
• The cost of Melbourne's MYKI transport system (The Age)
• RFID handshake (All Things Sensory)
• UUIDs & GUIDs (Wikipedia)
• Online GUID Generator
• 7 gadgets to keep track of the things that matter most to you (Tech Radar)
• The 'tile' tracker's battery lasts about 1 year & then they help you recycle & replace the entire device (tile)
• How wireless mesh networks work (How Stuff Works, Tech)
• Mesh networking (Wikipedia)
• These wearables are designed to help people with Alzheimer's (Forbes)
• NHS dementia patients to trial wearable technology (BBH)
• What is the future of fabric? These smart textiles will blow your mind (Forbes)
• Clothes with hidden sensors act as an always-on doctor (New Scientist)
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