Wearable technology

Technology company Razer has developed a conceptual design for a clear plastic face mask with lights and a built-in sound system to improve social interaction during the pandemic.

The True Square Formafantasma looks back to a time when watches kept their delicate mechanisms concealed behind a protective outer casing.

Japanese engineer Takeuchi Masaki has developed a wearable voice box called Syrinx, which can be strapped on like a neck brace so that people who have lost their larynx to cancer are able to produce speech.

Three graduate designers have developed Dots, a body movement-recognition system that enables amputees and people with disabilities to use gesture-controlled smart devices more effectively.

Jewellery designer Suhani Parekh has created a series of earrings that wrap and clip onto Apple's AirPod headphones to stop them falling out of ears.

South Korean electronics company LG has integrated electronic fans and HEPA filters into a face mask, in order to turn it into a wearable air purifier.

Designed for her master's degree at Köln International School of Design, [In]Brace is made from a custom dental retainer fitted with a ball with a magnet on a set of rails on the underside. A wire connects from the brace to a Wi-Fi transmitter that hooks behind the ear.

Graduate designer Dorothee Clasen has invented a wearable device that is worn in the mouth to operate a computer using the tongue.

A team of design graduates have developed a wearable device that is hidden in the mouth as a "surveillance-proof" authentication method that could replace fingerprints and facial recognition.

A pair of wireless algorithm-driven headphones by audio technology brand IRIS. The highly engineered product, called IRIS Flow Headphones, features integrated technology that aims to engage the human brain.

Sara Sallam has imagined a collection of jewellery to protect the user's identity from facial recognition, heartbeat detection or gait-tracking technology while still being visually appealing.

MARGstudio, Alessio Casciano Design and Angeletti Ruzza have designed a colourful, inflatable face shield that could be used to allow people to socialise following the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Berlin-based art collective Plastique Fantastique has created an open-source, retro-futuristic face shield shaped like a fish bowl to protect wearers against coronavirus.

LIGC Applications has developed the Guardian G-Volt, a face mask with a graphene filtration system that can be sterilised and safely re-used.

Consumers could change the colour of their cars, shoes, clothes or other belongings at will, using a new light-responsive ink from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

ElectroDermis researchers make stretchy, stick-on wearable tech