This is insane, ain't it? Such is the dependency of humans on wearables. In today's busy world, people want to track their daily activities to improve their lives. The wearable devices can be worn on the body as implant or accessories to use the wearable apps for various functionalities. Wearables are providing many services using IoT and Machine Learning technologies.

India is facing an acute shortage of skilled healthcare professionals and hospital beds, and the situation can change if doctors embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven devices and wearables/apps at hospitals, a new report said on 10 July. There are 29 skilled healthcare professionals for 10,000 people -- way below the global average of 109 and the lowest score across all 16 countries surveyed, according to the first edition of India's Future Health Index (FHI) by Royal Philips, a global leader in healthcare technology. People walk past the Philips headquarters in Barueri, Brazil. Another barrier is the low number of hospital beds 7 per 10,000 in India in comparison to 38 per 10,000 on average globally, the findings showed. "While top hospitals and clinics in metro cities may boast of having cutting-edge technologies, semi-urban and rural areas are yet to fully leverage the potential of digital healthcare," the survey noted.

How a person tells a story could be interpreted in a multitude of ways -- telling your friend about your awesome new car can come across as excitement or a brag, depending on the listener. To help detect the sentiment behind speech, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a wearable app that can parse conversation to identify the emotion behind each part of the story. The app, built into a fitness tracker for this research, collects physical and speech data to analyze the overall tone of the story in real time. Using artificial intelligence, the app can also figure out which part of the conversation was happy or sad, and tracks emotional changes in five-second intervals. In the research, participants were asked to wear a Samsung Simband with the app installed and tell a story.