Unbearable wearables

As wearable devices play an increasing role in the management of health and disease, adverse skin reactions to wearables have become more common. However, the management of allergic contact dermatitis is challenging and new treatment options more compatible with wearable devices are needed. In a 40-year-old woman with contact dermatitis to a continuous glucose monitoring device, topical clobetasol propionate 0.05% spray proved to be an effective treatment that was compatible with the application of adhesive wearables. This case demonstrates that spray formulations of topical steroids are a good option for the treatment of dermatitis under wearable devices such as continuous glucose monitors or ostomy appliance

Inferring Mobile Payment Passcodes Leveraging Wearable Devices

Mobile payment has drawn considerable attention due to its convenience of paying via personal mobile devices at anytime and anywhere, and passcodes (i.e., PINs) are the first choice of most consumers to authorize the payment. This work demonstrates a serious security breach and aims to raise the awareness of the public that the passcodes for authorizing transactions in mobile payments can be leaked by exploiting the embedded sensors in wearable devices (e.g., smartwatches). We present a passcode inference system, which examines to what extent the user's PIN during mobile payment could be revealed from a single wrist-worn wearable device under different input scenarios involving either two hands or a single hand. Extensive experiments with 15 volunteers demonstrate that an adversary is able to recover a user's PIN with high success rate within 5 tries under various input scenarios

ENHANCED WEARABLE DEVICES FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS

Systems and methods are disclosed for enhanced wearable devices for visually impaired users. A system of enhanced wearable devices may comprise a first plurality of wearable devices located on a user, and a second plurality of wearable devices located on a service animal. The first plurality of wearable devices may include at least a pair of smart glasses, such as augmented reality or virtual reality glasses, and one or more sensors, such as an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an image sensor, an acoustics sensor, GPS sensors, or the like. Each wearable device of the second plurality of wearable devices may be attached to the service animal via a collar, a leash, a vest, a harness, or the like. A processor of the system may receive first information indicating an environment surrounding the user from the first plurality of wearable devices and second information indicating an environment surrounding the service animal from the second plurality of wearable devices. The first and second information may be used to determine a combined environment of the user and the service animal. A hazard may be identified in the combined environment. An alert, which may be based on the hazard and recognizable by the user, such as through vibrations, audio notification, or other sensory type notification, may be generated and sent to the user