Examples of the wealth of wearable technology available to us:

http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2015/jan/08/ces-2015-technology-changes-marketing

Article highlighting the trends of 2015 in wearable tech, they identify 6 of these:

‘Sensors Everywhere’

‘New Mobility’

‘Cognitive Outsourcing’

‘Screens Everywhere’

‘Human Technology’

‘Vanishing Interfaces’

http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/04/zensorium-being/

A fitness wrist band that promises to detect your mood through skin temperature and heart rate; promises it’s not just a glorified mood ring, but do we really need a watch to tell us if we’re happy, stressed, calm or excited?

http://www.itproportal.com/2015/01/11/wearable-technology-doesnt-look-like-wearable-technology-way-forward/

Article discussing how technology that can be integrated into existing products e.g. watches/glasses could be more successful instead of releasing their own personal product.

“Style and technology can go hand in hand – or at least that’s what Apple Watch hopes to prove – but often they don’t. I am a geek, but I don’t want to look like a cut-price cyborg just to get the primary benefits offered by wearable technology.”

http://www.choosemuse.com/

A portable brain-scan that connects to your smart-phone via Bluetooth that can be used to ‘train your brain’ through real-time feedback during attention-training.

Turns out it’s more difficult than you (I) might expect coming up with a concept for a digital installation and deciding how to best turn that idea into a physical thing that could potentially engage passers-by in Lincoln.

Within the theme of Liberation for Frequency 2015, covering the key aspects of Liberation as a Digital Human, Knowledge Sharing and Enhanced Imagination; I think I want to explore how the future could look for us when wearable technology and body-as-interface design becomes the reality. Are we going to have to become our Facebook profiles that we already have to carefully scour for information that we might not want to share with potential employers? If so, how much data from our wearable gadgets would automatically be uploaded onto these sorts of publicly accessible profiles and would we really have any control of where this data from our everyday lives in general ends up?

When technology that is supposed to make our lives easier becomes a mine of data to share with third parties, are we really Liberated?