the eu has funded a project related to wearable technology. the project, named wearIT@work will end in one year and was funded with 14.3 million €.
for mobile workers, the goal is to replace traditional interfaces, such as screen, keyboard or computer unit, by speech control or gesture control, without modifying the applications. such wearable systems are currently being tested in four different fields: aircraft maintenance, emergency response, car production and healthcare. read more.