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The Global Market for Wearable Electronics and Sensors 2025-2035

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  • 1214 Pages
  • December 2024
  • Region: Global
  • Future Markets, Inc
  • ID: 6028904

The Global Market for Wearable Electronics and Sensors 2025-2035 provides comprehensive analysis of the rapidly evolving wearable technology industry, covering everything from consumer devices to medical applications and advanced electronic textiles. This extensive report examines key market trends, technological developments, and growth opportunities across the entire wearable electronics ecosystem. The wearables market continues to experience significant growth, driven by innovations in flexible electronics, sensor technologies, and advanced materials.

The report provides detailed insights into major segments including smartwatches, fitness trackers, smart clothing, medical devices, and augmented/virtual reality headsets. With the integration of artificial intelligence, improved battery technology, and miniaturization of components, wearable devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated and capable of collecting and analyzing complex biometric data.

Key areas analyzed include:

  • Comprehensive coverage of wearable form factors including smart watches, bands, glasses, clothing, patches, rings, hearables, head-mounted displays, jewelry, and smart insoles
  • Detailed analysis of sensor technologies including motion, optical, force, strain, chemical, and biosensors
  • Manufacturing methods and materials including printed electronics, 3D electronics, flexible substrates, and advanced integration techniques
  • Medical and healthcare applications from continuous glucose monitoring to electronic skin patches
  • Gaming and entertainment applications focusing on AR/VR/MR devices
  • Electronic textiles (e-textiles) and smart apparel developments
  • Energy storage and harvesting solutions for wearable devices

The report provides extensive market forecasts from 2025-2035, analyzing volume and revenue projections across different device categories and application segments.

It examines key market drivers including:

  • Growing demand for continuous health monitoring and preventive healthcare
  • Increasing adoption of fitness tracking and sports performance analysis
  • Rising interest in augmented and virtual reality applications
  • Advancements in flexible electronics and sensor technologies
  • Integration of AI and machine learning capabilities
  • Development of improved power solutions and energy harvesting
  • Expansion of IoT and connected device ecosystems

Key technologies covered include:

  • Advanced sensor development and integration
  • Flexible and stretchable electronics
  • Printed electronics manufacturing
  • Novel materials including conductive inks and polymers
  • Battery and energy harvesting innovations
  • Display technologies including microLED
  • Wireless connectivity solutions

The report profiles >900 companies across the wearable technology value chain, from component manufacturers to end-product developers. It provides detailed analysis of market leaders and innovative startups advancing the field through technological breakthroughs and novel applications.

The report also examines:

  • Manufacturing processes and challenges
  • Material developments and innovations
  • Component integration techniques
  • Power management solutions
  • Data processing and analytics
  • Regulatory considerations
  • Market barriers and opportunities
  • Investment trends and funding

The research highlights emerging applications across multiple sectors:

  • Healthcare and Medical:
    • Remote patient monitoring
    • Diagnostic devices
    • Drug delivery systems
    • Rehabilitation technology
    • Mental health applications
  • Consumer and Fitness:
    • Activity tracking
    • Sports performance analysis
    • Sleep monitoring
    • Stress management
    • Personal safety
  • Enterprise and Industrial:
    • Workplace safety monitoring
    • Industrial training
    • Remote assistance
    • Productivity enhancement
    • Process optimization
  • Gaming and Entertainment:
    • Virtual reality gaming
    • Augmented reality experiences
    • Mixed reality applications
    • Interactive entertainment
    • Immersive media

The report analyzes key market trends including:

  • Shift toward flexible and stretchable form factors
  • Integration of advanced sensing capabilities
  • Development of smart textiles and e-fabrics
  • Improvements in power efficiency and battery life
  • Enhanced data processing and AI integration
  • Growth in medical and healthcare applications
  • Expansion of AR/VR/MR technology

With over 1000 pages of detailed analysis, including hundreds of figures, tables and company profiles, this report provides essential intelligence for:

  • Wearable device manufacturers
  • Component suppliers
  • Material developers
  • Electronics companies
  • Healthcare providers
  • Investment firms
  • Research institutions
  • Technology strategists

Table of Contents

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 The evolution of electronics
1.2 The wearables revolution
1.3 The wearable tech market in 2024
1.4 Wearable market leaders
1.5 Continuous monitoring
1.6 Market map for wearable electronics and sensors
1.7 From rigid to flexible and stretchable
1.8 Flexible and stretchable electronics in wearables
1.9 Stretchable artificial skin
1.10 Role in the metaverse
1.11 Wearable electronics in the textiles industry
1.12 New conductive materials
1.13 Entertainment
1.14 Growth in flexible and stretchable electronics market
1.14.1 Recent growth in Printed, flexible and stretchable products
1.14.2 Future growth
1.14.3 Advanced materials as a market driver
1.14.4 Growth in remote health monitoring and diagnostics
1.15 Innovations at CES 2021-2024
1.16 Investment funding and buy-outs 2019-2024
1.17 Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE)
1.18 Sustainability in flexible electronics

2 INTRODUCTION
2.1 Introduction to wearable technology and wearable sensors
2.1.1 What is wearable technology?
2.1.1.1 Wearable sensing
2.1.1.1.1 Types
2.1.1.1.2 Market trends in wearable sensors
2.1.1.1.3 Markets
2.2 Form factors
2.2.1 Smart Watches
2.2.2 Smart Bands
2.2.3 Smart Glasses
2.2.4 Smart Clothing
2.2.5 Smart Patches
2.2.6 Smart Rings
2.2.7 Hearables
2.2.8 Head-Mounted
2.2.9 Smart Insoles
2.3 Wearable sensors
2.3.1 Motion Sensors
2.3.1.1 Overview
2.3.1.2 Technology and Components
2.3.1.2.1 Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs)
2.3.1.2.1.1 MEMs accelerometers
2.3.1.2.1.2 MEMS Gyroscopes
2.3.1.2.1.3 IMUs in smart-watches
2.3.1.2.2 Tunneling magnetoresistance sensors (TMR)
2.3.1.3 Applications
2.3.2 Optical Sensors
2.3.2.1 Overview
2.3.2.2 Technology and Components
2.3.2.2.1 Photoplethysmography (PPG)
2.3.2.2.2 Spectroscopy
2.3.2.2.3 Photodetectors
2.3.2.3 Applications
2.3.2.3.1 Heart Rate Optical Sensors
2.3.2.3.2 Pulse Oximetry Optical Sensors
2.3.2.3.2.1 Blood oxygen measurement
2.3.2.3.2.2 Wellness and Medical Applications
2.3.2.3.2.3 Consumer Pulse Oximetry
2.3.2.3.2.4 Pediatric Applications
2.3.2.3.2.5 Skin Patches
2.3.2.3.3 Blood Pressure Optical Sensors
2.3.2.3.3.1 Commercialization
2.3.2.3.3.2 Oscillometric blood pressure measurement
2.3.2.3.3.3 Combination of PPG and ECG
2.3.2.3.3.4 Non-invasive Blood Pressure Sensing
2.3.2.3.3.5 Blood Pressure Hearables
2.3.2.3.4 Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring Optical Sensors
2.3.2.3.4.1 Overview
2.3.2.3.4.2 Other Optical Approaches
2.3.2.3.5 fNIRS Optical Sensors
2.3.2.3.5.1 Overview
2.3.2.3.5.2 Brain-Computer Interfaces
2.3.3 Force Sensors
2.3.3.1 Overview
2.3.3.1.1 Piezoresistive force sensing
2.3.3.1.2 Thin film pressure sensors
2.3.3.2 Technology and Components
2.3.3.2.1 Materials
2.3.3.2.2 Piezoelectric polymers
2.3.3.2.3 Temperature sensing and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) integration
2.3.3.2.4 Wearable force and pressure sensors
2.3.4 Strain Sensors
2.3.4.1 Overview
2.3.4.2 Technology and Components
2.3.4.3 Applications
2.3.4.3.1 Healthcare
2.3.4.3.2 Wearable Strain Sensors
2.3.4.3.3 Temperature Sensors
2.3.5 Chemical Sensors
2.3.5.1 Overview
2.3.5.2 Optical Chemical Sensors
2.3.5.3 Technology and Components
2.3.5.3.1 Continuous Glucose Monitoring
2.3.5.3.2 Commercial CGM systems
2.3.5.4 Applications
2.3.5.4.1 Sweat-based glucose monitoring
2.3.5.4.2 Tear glucose measurement
2.3.5.4.3 Salivary glucose monitoring
2.3.5.4.4 Breath analysis for glucose monitoring
2.3.5.4.5 Urine glucose monitoring
2.3.6 Biosensors
2.3.6.1 Overview
2.3.6.2 Applications
2.3.6.2.1 Wearable Alcohol Sensors
2.3.6.2.2 Wearable Lactate Sensors
2.3.6.2.3 Wearable Hydration Sensors
2.3.6.2.4 Smart diaper technology
2.3.6.2.5 Ultrasound technology
2.3.6.2.6 Microneedle technology for continuous fluid sampling
2.3.7 Quantum Sensors
2.3.7.1 Magnetometry
2.3.7.2 Tunneling magnetoresistance sensors
2.3.7.3 Chip-scale atomic clocks
2.3.8 Wearable Electrodes
2.3.8.1 Overview
2.3.8.2 Applications
2.3.8.2.1 Skin Patches and E-textiles
2.3.8.3 Technology and Components
2.3.8.3.1 Electrode Selection
2.3.8.3.2 E-textiles
2.3.8.3.3 Microneedle electrodes
2.3.8.3.4 Electronic Skins
2.3.8.4 Applications
2.3.8.4.1 Electrocardiogram (ECG) wearable electrodes
2.3.8.4.2 Electroencephalography (EEG) wearable electrodes represent
2.3.8.4.3 Electromyography (EMG) wearable electrodes
2.3.8.4.4 Bioimpedance wearable electrodes

3 MANUFACTURING METHODS
3.1 Comparative analysis
3.2 Printed electronics
3.2.1 Technology description
3.2.2 SWOT analysis
3.3 3D electronics
3.3.1 Technology description
3.3.2 SWOT analysis
3.4 Analogue printing
3.4.1 Technology description
3.4.2 SWOT analysis
3.5 Digital printing
3.5.1 Technology description
3.5.2 SWOT analysis
3.6 In-mold electronics (IME)
3.6.1 Technology description
3.6.2 SWOT analysis
3.7 Roll-to-roll (R2R)
3.7.1 Technology description
3.7.2 SWOT analysis

4 MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS
4.1 Component attachment materials
4.1.1 Conductive adhesives
4.1.2 Biodegradable adhesives
4.1.3 Magnets
4.1.4 Bio-based solders
4.1.5 Bio-derived solders
4.1.6 Recycled plastics
4.1.7 Nano adhesives
4.1.8 Shape memory polymers
4.1.9 Photo-reversible polymers
4.1.10 Conductive biopolymers
4.1.11 Traditional thermal processing methods
4.1.12 Low temperature solder
4.1.13 Reflow soldering
4.1.14 Induction soldering
4.1.15 UV curing
4.1.16 Near-infrared (NIR) radiation curing
4.1.17 Photonic sintering/curing
4.1.18 Hybrid integration
4.2 Conductive inks
4.2.1 Metal-based conductive inks
4.2.2 Nanoparticle inks
4.2.3 Silver inks
4.2.4 Particle-Free conductive ink
4.2.5 Copper inks
4.2.6 Gold (Au) ink
4.2.7 Conductive polymer inks
4.2.8 Liquid metals
4.2.9 Companies
4.3 Printable semiconductors
4.3.1 Technology overview
4.3.2 Advantages and disadvantages
4.3.3 SWOT analysis
4.4 Printable sensing materials
4.4.1 Overview
4.4.2 Types
4.4.3 SWOT analysis
4.5 Flexible Substrates
4.5.1 Flexible plastic substrates
4.5.1.1 Types of materials
4.5.1.2 Flexible (bio) polyimide PCBs
4.5.2 Paper substrates
4.5.2.1 Overview
4.5.3 Glass substrates
4.5.3.1 Overview
4.5.4 Textile substrates
4.6 Flexible ICs
4.6.1 Description
4.6.2 Flexible metal oxide ICs
4.6.3 Comparison of flexible integrated circuit technologies
4.6.4 SWOT analysis
4.7 Printed PCBs
4.7.1 Description
4.7.2 High-Speed PCBs
4.7.3 Flexible PCBs
4.7.4 3D Printed PCBs
4.7.5 Sustainable PCBs
4.8 Thin film batteries
4.8.1 Technology description
4.8.2 SWOT analysis
4.9 Energy harvesting
4.9.1 Approaches
4.9.2 Perovskite photovoltaics
4.9.3 Applications
4.9.4 SWOT analysis

5 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
5.1 Market drivers and trends
5.2 Wearable sensors
5.2.1 Types
5.2.2 Wearable sensor technologies
5.2.3 Opportunities
5.2.4 Consumer acceptance
5.2.5 Healthcare
5.2.6 Trends
5.3 Wearable actuators
5.3.1 Applications
5.3.2 Types
5.3.3 Electrical stimulation technologies
5.3.4 Regulations
5.3.5 Batteries
5.3.6 Wireless communication technologies
5.4 Recent market developments
5.5 Wrist-worn wearables
5.5.1 Overview
5.5.2 Recent developments and future outlook
5.5.3 Wrist-worn sensing technologies
5.5.4 Activity tracking
5.5.5 Advanced biometric sensing
5.5.5.1 Blood oxygen and respiration rate
5.5.5.2 Established sensor hardware
5.5.5.3 Blood Pressure
5.5.5.4 Spectroscopic technologies
5.5.5.5 Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring
5.5.5.6 Minimally invasive glucose monitoring
5.5.6 Wrist-worn communication technologies
5.5.7 Luxury and traditional watch industry
5.5.8 Smart-strap technologies
5.5.9 Driver monitoring technologies
5.5.10 Sports-watches, smart-watches and fitness trackers
5.5.10.1 Sensing
5.5.10.2 Actuating
5.5.10.3 SWOT analysis
5.5.11 Health monitoring
5.5.12 Energy harvesting for powering smartwatches
5.5.13 Main producers and products
5.6 Sports and fitness
5.6.1 Overview
5.6.2 Wearable devices and apparel
5.6.3 Skin patches
5.6.4 Products
5.7 Hearables
5.7.1 Hearing assistance technologies
5.7.1.1 Products
5.7.2 Technology advancements
5.7.3 Assistive Hearables
5.7.3.1 Biometric Monitoring
5.7.4 SWOT analysis
5.7.5 Health & Fitness Hearables
5.7.6 Multimedia Hearables
5.7.7 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
5.7.8 Biometric Monitoring
5.7.8.1 Sensors
5.7.8.2 Heart Rate Monitoring in Sports Headphones
5.7.8.3 Integration into hearing assistance
5.7.8.4 Advanced Sensing Technologies
5.7.8.5 Blood pressure hearables
5.7.8.6 Sleep monitoring market
5.7.9 Companies and products
5.8 Sleep trackers and wearable monitors
5.8.1 Built in function in smart watches and fitness trackers
5.8.2 Smart rings
5.8.3 Headbands
5.8.4 Sleep monitoring devices
5.8.4.1 Companies and products
5.9 Pet and animal wearables
5.10 Military wearables
5.11 Industrial and workplace monitoring
5.11.1 Products
5.12 Global market forecasts
5.12.1 Volume
5.12.2 Revenues
5.13 Market challenges
5.14 Company profiles (123 Company Profiles)

6 MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
6.1 Market drivers
6.2 Current state of the art
6.2.1 Wearables for Digital Health
6.2.2 Wearable medical device products
6.2.3 Temperature and respiratory rate monitoring
6.3 Wearable and health monitoring and rehabilitation
6.3.1 Market overview
6.3.2 Companies and products
6.4 Electronic skin patches
6.4.1 Electrochemical biosensors
6.4.2 Printed pH sensors
6.4.3 Printed batteries
6.4.4 Materials
6.4.4.1 Summary of advanced materials
6.4.5 Temperature and respiratory rate monitoring
6.4.5.1 Market overview
6.4.5.2 Companies and products
6.4.6 Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)
6.4.6.1 Market overview
6.4.7 Minimally-invasive CGM sensors
6.4.7.1 Technologies
6.4.8 Non-invasive CGM sensors
6.4.8.1 Commercial devices
6.4.8.2 Companies and products
6.4.9 Cardiovascular monitoring
6.4.9.1 Market overview
6.4.9.2 ECG sensors
6.4.9.2.1 Companies and products
6.4.9.3 PPG sensors
6.4.9.3.1 Companies and products
6.4.10 Pregnancy and newborn monitoring
6.4.10.1 Market overview
6.4.10.2 Companies and products
6.4.11 Hydration sensors
6.4.11.1 Market overview
6.4.11.2 Companies and products
6.4.12 Wearable sweat sensors (medical and sports)
6.4.12.1 Market overview
6.4.12.2 Companies and products
6.5 Wearable drug delivery
6.5.1 Companies and products
6.6 Cosmetics patches
6.6.1 Companies and products
6.7 Femtech devices
6.7.1 Companies and products
6.8 Smart footwear for health monitoring
6.8.1 Companies and products
6.9 Smart contact lenses and smart glasses for visually impaired
6.9.1 Companies and products
6.10 Smart woundcare
6.10.1 Companies and products
6.11 Smart diapers
6.11.1 Companies and products
6.12 Wearable robotics-exo-skeletons, bionic prostheses, exo-suits, and body worn collaborative robots
6.12.1 Companies and products
6.13 Global market forecasts
6.13.1 Volume
6.13.2 Revenues
6.14 Market challenges
6.15 Company profiles (331 Company Profiles)

7 GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY (VR/AR/MR)
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Classification of VR, AR, MR, and XR
7.2.1 XR controllers and sensing systems
7.2.2 XR positional and motion tracking systems
7.2.3 Wearable technology for XR
7.2.4 Wearable Gesture Sensors for XR
7.2.5 Edge Sensing and AI
7.2.6 VR Technology
7.2.6.1 Overview
7.2.6.2 VR Headset Types
7.2.6.3 Future outlook for VR technology
7.2.6.4 VR Lens Technology
7.2.6.5 VR challenges
7.2.6.6 Market growth
7.2.7 AR Technology
7.2.7.1 Overview
7.2.7.2 AR and MR distinction
7.2.7.3 AR for Assistive Technology
7.2.7.4 Consumer AR market
7.2.7.5 Optics Technology for AR and VR
7.2.7.5.1 Optical Combiners
7.2.7.6 AR display technology
7.2.7.7 Challenges
7.2.8 Metaverse
7.2.9 Mixed Reality (MR) smart glasses
7.2.10 OLED microdisplays
7.2.10.1 MiniLED
7.2.10.1.1 High dynamic range miniLED displays
7.2.10.1.2 Quantum dot films for miniLED displays
7.2.10.2 MicroLED
7.2.10.2.1 Integration
7.2.10.2.2 Transfer technologies
7.2.10.2.3 MicroLED display specifications
7.2.10.2.4 Advantages
7.2.10.2.5 Transparency
7.2.10.2.6 Costs
7.2.10.2.7 MicroLED contact lenses
7.2.10.2.8 Products
7.2.10.2.9 VR and AR MicroLEDs
7.3 Global market forecasts
7.3.1 Volume
7.3.2 Revenues
7.4 Company profiles (96 Company Profiles)

8 ELECTRONIC TEXTILES (E-TEXTILES) AND SMART APPAREL
8.1 Macro-trends
8.2 Market drivers
8.3 SWOT analysis
8.4 Performance requirements for E-textiles
8.5 Growth prospects for electronic textiles
8.6 Textiles in the Internet of Things
8.7 Types of E-Textile products
8.7.1 Embedded e-textiles
8.7.2 Laminated e-textiles
8.8 Materials and components
8.8.1 Integrating electronics for E-Textiles
8.8.1.1 Textile-adapted
8.8.1.2 Textile-integrated
8.8.1.3 Textile-based
8.8.2 Manufacturing of E-textiles
8.8.2.1 Integration of conductive polymers and inks
8.8.2.2 Integration of conductive yarns and conductive filament fibers
8.8.2.3 Integration of conductive sheets
8.8.3 Flexible and stretchable electronics
8.8.4 E-textiles materials and components
8.8.4.1 Conductive and stretchable fibers and yarns
8.8.4.1.1 Production
8.8.4.1.2 Metals
8.8.4.1.3 Carbon materials and nanofibers
8.8.4.1.3.1 Graphene
8.8.4.1.3.2 Carbon nanotubes
8.8.4.1.3.3 Nanofibers
8.8.4.2 Mxenes
8.8.4.3 Hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN)/Bboron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs)
8.8.4.4 Conductive polymers
8.8.4.4.1 PDMS
8.8.4.4.2 PEDOT: PSS
8.8.4.4.3 Polypyrrole (PPy)
8.8.4.4.4 Conductive polymer composites
8.8.4.4.5 Ionic conductive polymers
8.8.4.5 Conductive inks
8.8.4.5.1 Aqueous-Based Ink
8.8.4.5.2 Solvent-Based Ink
8.8.4.5.3 Oil-Based Ink
8.8.4.5.4 Hot-Melt Ink
8.8.4.5.5 UV-Curable Ink
8.8.4.5.6 Metal-based conductive inks
8.8.4.5.6.1 Nanoparticle ink
8.8.4.5.6.2 Silver inks
8.8.4.5.6.2.1 Silver flake
8.8.4.5.6.2.2 Silver nanoparticle ink
8.8.4.5.6.2.3 Formulation
8.8.4.5.6.2.4 Conductivity
8.8.4.5.6.2.5 Particle-Free silver conductive ink
8.8.4.5.6.3 Copper inks
8.8.4.5.6.3.1 Properties
8.8.4.5.6.3.2 Silver-coated copper
8.8.4.5.6.4 Gold (Au) ink
8.8.4.5.6.4.1 Properties
8.8.4.5.7 Carbon-based conductive inks
8.8.4.5.7.1 Carbon nanotubes
8.8.4.5.7.2 Single-walled carbon nanotubes
8.8.4.5.7.3 Graphene
8.8.4.5.8 Liquid metals
8.8.4.5.8.1 Properties
8.8.4.6 Electronic filaments
8.8.4.7 Phase change materials
8.8.4.7.1 Temperature controlled fabrics
8.8.4.8 Shape memory materials
8.8.4.9 Metal halide perovskites
8.8.4.10 Nanocoatings in smart textiles
8.8.4.11 3D printing
8.8.4.11.1 Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
8.8.4.11.2 Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
8.8.4.11.3 Products
8.8.5 E-textiles components
8.8.5.1 Sensors and actuators
8.8.5.1.1 Physiological sensors
8.8.5.1.2 Environmental sensors
8.8.5.1.3 Pressure sensors
8.8.5.1.3.1 Flexible capacitive sensors
8.8.5.1.3.2 Flexible piezoresistive sensors
8.8.5.1.3.3 Flexible piezoelectric sensors
8.8.5.1.4 Activity sensors
8.8.5.1.5 Strain sensors
8.8.5.1.5.1 Resistive sensors
8.8.5.1.5.2 Capacitive strain sensors
8.8.5.1.6 Temperature sensors
8.8.5.1.7 Inertial measurement units (IMUs)
8.8.5.2 Electrodes
8.8.5.3 Connectors
8.9 Applications, markets and products
8.9.1 Current E-textiles and smart clothing products
8.9.2 Temperature monitoring and regulation
8.9.2.1 Heated clothing
8.9.2.2 Heated gloves
8.9.2.3 Heated insoles
8.9.2.4 Heated jacket and clothing products
8.9.2.5 Materials used in flexible heaters and applications
8.9.3 Stretchable E-fabrics
8.9.4 Therapeutic products
8.9.5 Sport & fitness
8.9.5.1 Products
8.9.6 Smart footwear
8.9.6.1 Companies and products
8.9.7 Wearable displays
8.9.8 Military
8.9.9 Textile-based lighting
8.9.9.1 OLEDs
8.9.10 Smart gloves
8.9.11 Powering E-textiles
8.9.11.1 Advantages and disadvantages of main battery types for E-textiles
8.9.11.2 Bio-batteries
8.9.11.3 Challenges for battery integration in smart textiles
8.9.11.4 Textile supercapacitors
8.9.11.5 Energy harvesting
8.9.11.5.1 Photovoltaic solar textiles
8.9.11.5.2 Energy harvesting nanogenerators
8.9.11.5.2.1 TENGs
8.9.11.5.2.2 PENGs
8.9.11.5.3 Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting
8.9.12 Motion capture for AR/VR
8.10 Global market forecasts
8.10.1 Volume
8.10.2 Revenues
8.11 Market challenges
8.12 Company profiles (152 Company Profiles)

9 ENERGY STORAGE AND HARVESTING FOR WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
9.1 Macro-trends
9.2 Market drivers
9.3 SWOT analysis
9.4 Battery Development
9.4.1 Enhanced Energy Density and Performance
9.4.2 Stretchable Batteries
9.4.3 Textile-Based Batteries
9.4.4 Printable Batteries
9.4.5 Sustainable and Biodegradable Batteries
9.4.6 Self-Healing Batteries
9.4.7 Solid-State Flexible Batteries
9.4.8 Integration with Energy Harvesting
9.4.9 Nanostructured Materials
9.4.10 Thin-Film Battery Technologies
9.5 Applications of printed and flexible electronics
9.6 Flexible and stretchable batteries for electronics
9.7 Approaches to flexibility
9.8 Flexible Battery Technologies
9.8.1 Thin-film Lithium-ion Batteries
9.8.1.1 Types of Flexible/stretchable LIBs
9.8.1.1.1 Flexible planar LiBs
9.8.1.1.2 Flexible Fiber LiBs
9.8.1.1.3 Flexible micro-LiBs
9.8.1.1.4 Stretchable lithium-ion batteries
9.8.1.1.5 Origami and kirigami lithium-ion batteries
9.8.1.2 Flexible Li/S batteries
9.8.1.3 Flexible lithium-manganese dioxide (Li-MnO2) batteries
9.8.2 Printed Batteries
9.8.2.1 Technical specifications
9.8.2.2 Components
9.8.2.3 Design
9.8.2.4 Key features
9.8.2.4.1 Printable current collectors
9.8.2.4.2 Printable electrodes
9.8.2.4.3 Materials
9.8.2.4.4 Applications
9.8.2.4.5 Printing techniques
9.8.2.4.6 Lithium-ion (LIB) printed batteries
9.8.2.4.7 Zinc-based printed batteries
9.8.2.4.8 3D Printed batteries
9.8.2.5 3D Printing techniques for battery manufacturing
9.8.2.5.1.1 Materials for 3D printed batteries
9.8.3 Thin-Film Solid-state Batteries
9.8.3.1 Solid-state electrolytes
9.8.3.2 Features and advantages
9.8.3.3 Technical specifications
9.8.3.4 Microbatteries
9.8.3.4.1 Introduction
9.8.3.4.2 3D designs
9.8.4 Stretchable Batteries
9.8.5 Other Emerging Technologies
9.8.5.1 Metal-sulfur batteries
9.8.5.2 Flexible zinc-based batteries
9.8.5.3 Flexible silver-zinc (Ag-Zn) batteries
9.8.5.4 Flexible Zn-Air batteries
9.8.5.5 Flexible zinc-vanadium batteries
9.8.5.6 Fiber-shaped batteries
9.8.5.6.1 Carbon nanotubes
9.8.5.6.2 Applications
9.8.5.6.3 Challenges
9.8.5.7 Transparent batteries
9.8.5.7.1 Components
9.8.5.8 Degradable batteries
9.8.5.8.1 Components
9.8.5.9 Fiber-shaped batteries
9.8.5.9.1 Carbon nanotubes
9.8.5.9.2 Types
9.8.5.9.3 Applications
9.8.5.9.4 Challenges
9.9 Key Components of Flexible Batteries
9.9.1 Electrodes
9.9.1.1 Cable-type batteries
9.9.1.2 Batteries-on-wire
9.9.2 Electrolytes
9.9.3 Separators
9.9.4 Current Collectors
9.9.4.1 Carbon Materials for Current Collectors in Flexible Batteries
9.9.5 Packaging
9.9.5.1 Lithium-Polymer Pouch Cells
9.9.5.2 Flexible Pouch Cells
9.9.5.3 Encapsulation Materials
9.9.6 Other Manufacturing Techniques
9.10 Performance Metrics and Characteristics
9.10.1 Energy Density
9.10.2 Power Density
9.10.3 Cycle Life
9.10.4 Flexibility and Bendability
9.11 Printed supercapacitors
9.11.1 Electrode materials
9.11.2 Electrolytes
9.12 Photovoltaics
9.12.1 Conductive pastes
9.12.2 Organic photovoltaics (OPV)
9.12.3 Perovskite PV
9.12.4 Flexible and stretchable photovoltaics
9.12.4.1 Companies
9.12.5 Photovoltaic solar textiles
9.12.6 Solar tape
9.12.7 Origami-like solar cells
9.12.8 Spray-on and stick-on perovskite photovoltaics
9.12.9 Photovoltaic solar textiles
9.13 Transparent and flexible heaters
9.13.1 Technology overview
9.13.2 Applications
9.13.2.1 Automotive Industry
9.13.2.1.1 Defrosting and Defogging Systems
9.13.2.1.2 Heated Windshields and Mirrors
9.13.2.1.3 Touch Panels and Displays
9.13.2.2 Aerospace and Aviation
9.13.2.2.1 Aircraft Windows and Canopies
9.13.2.2.2 Sensor and Camera Housings
9.13.2.3 Consumer Electronics
9.13.2.3.1 Smartphones and Tablets
9.13.2.3.2 Wearable Devices
9.13.2.3.3 Smart Home Appliances
9.13.2.4 Building and Architecture
9.13.2.4.1 Smart Windows
9.13.2.4.2 Heated Glass Facades
9.13.2.4.3 Greenhouse and Skylight Applications
9.13.2.5 Medical and Healthcare
9.13.2.5.1 Incubators and Warming Beds
9.13.2.5.2 Surgical Microscopes and Endoscopes
9.13.2.5.3 Medical Imaging Equipment
9.13.2.6 Display Technologies
9.13.2.6.1 LCD Displays
9.13.2.6.2 OLED Displays
9.13.2.6.3 Flexible and Transparent Displays
9.13.2.7 Energy Systems
9.13.2.7.1 Solar Panels (De-icing and Efficiency Enhancement)
9.13.2.7.2 Fuel Cells
9.13.2.7.3 Battery Systems
9.14 Thermoelectric energy harvesting
9.15 Market challenges
9.16 Global market forecasts
9.16.1 Volume
9.16.2 Revenues
9.17 Companies (60 Company Profiles)

10 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY11 REFERENCES
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1. Types of wearable devices and applications
Table 2. Types of wearable devices and the data collected
Table 3. Main Wearable Device Companies by Shipment Volume, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, (million units)
Table 4. New wearable tech products 2022-2024
Table 5. Wearable market leaders by market segment
Table 6. Applications in printed, flexible and stretchable electronics, by advanced materials type and benefits thereof
Table 7. Advanced materials for Printed, flexible and stretchable sensors and Electronics-Advantages and disadvantages
Table 8. Sheet resistance (RS) and transparency (T) values for transparent conductive oxides and alternative materials for transparent conductive electrodes (TCE)
Table 9. Wearable electronics at CES 2021-2024
Table 10. Wearables Investment funding and buy-outs 2019-2024
Table 11. Comparative analysis of conventional and flexible hybrid electronics
Table 12. Materials, components, and manufacturing methods for FHE
Table 13. Research and commercial activity in FHE
Table 14. Value proposition of wearable sensors versus non wearable alternatives
Table 15. Overview of Wearable Sensor Types
Table 16. Market Drivers in the Wearable Sensor Market
Table 17. Markets for Wearable Sensors
Table 18. Wearable Electronic Form Factors
Table 19. Trends in Wearable Sensor Innovations by Form-Factor:
Table 20. Applications and Opportunities for TMRs in Wearables
Table 21. Wearable Motion Sensors Applications
Table 22. Applications of Photoplethysmography (PPG)
Table 23. Wearable Brands in Cardiovascular Clinical Research
Table 24. Technologies for Cuff-less Blood Pressure
Table 25. Market outlook for Wearable Blood Pressure Devices
Table 26. Non-invasive glucose monitoring
Table 27. fNIRS Companies
Table 28. Comparing fNIRS to Other Non-invasive Brain Imaging Methods
Table 29. Thin Film Pressure Sensor Architectures
Table 30. Applications of Printed Force Sensors
Table 31. Companies in Printed Strain Sensors
Table 32. Types of Temperature Sensor
Table 33. Technology Readiness Level for strain sensors
Table 34. Commercial CGM Devices
Table 35. Applications of Wearable Chemical Sensors
Table 36. Market Outlook of Wearable Sensors for Novel Biometrics
Table 37. Applications of Wearable OPMs - MEG
Table 38. Applications and Market Opportunities for TMRs
Table 39. Wearable Electrode Types
Table 40. Applications of wearable electrodes
Table 41. Printed Electrodes for Skin Patches and E-textiles
Table 42. Companies in Wearable Electrodes
Table 43. Materials and Manufacturing Approaches for Electronic Skins
Table 44. Wearable electrodes Applications
Table 45. Manufacturing Methods for Wearable Electronics
Table 46. Manufacturing methods for printed, flexible and hybrid electronics
Table 47. Common printing methods used in printed electronics manufacturing in terms of resolution vs throughput
Table 48. Manufacturing methods for 3D electronics
Table 49. Readiness level of various additive manufacturing technologies for electronics applications
Table 50. Fully 3D printed electronics process steps
Table 51. Manufacturing methods for Analogue manufacturing
Table 52. Technological and commercial readiness level of analogue printing methods
Table 53. Manufacturing methods for Digital printing
Table 54. Innovations in high resolution printing
Table 55. Key manufacturing methods for creating smart surfaces with integrated electronics
Table 56. IME manufacturing techniques
Table 57. Applications of R2R electronics manufacturing
Table 58. Technology readiness level for R2R manufacturing
Table 59. Materials for wearable electronics and sensors
Table 60. Comparison of component attachment materials
Table 61. Comparison between sustainable and conventional component attachment materials for printed circuit boards
Table 62. Comparison between the SMAs and SMPs
Table 63. Comparison of conductive biopolymers versus conventional materials for printed circuit board fabrication
Table 64. Low temperature solder alloys
Table 65. Thermally sensitive substrate materials
Table 66. Typical conductive ink formulation
Table 67. Comparative properties of conductive inks
Table 68. Comparison of the electrical conductivities of liquid metal with typical conductive inks
Table 69. Conductive ink producers
Table 70. Technology readiness level of printed semiconductors
Table 71. Organic semiconductors: Advantages and disadvantages
Table 72. Market Drivers for printed/flexible sensors
Table 73. Overview of specific printed/flexible sensor types
Table 74. Properties of typical flexible substrates
Table 75. Comparison of stretchable substrates
Table 76. Main types of materials used as flexible plastic substrates in flexible electronics
Table 77. Applications of flexible (bio) polyimide PCBs
Table 78. Paper substrates: Advantages and disadvantages
Table 79. Comparison of flexible integrated circuit technologies
Table 80. PCB manufacturing process
Table 81. Challenges in PCB manufacturing
Table 82. 3D PCB manufacturing
Table 83. Market drivers and trends in wearable electronics
Table 84. Types of wearable sensors
Table 85. Opportunities and challenges for the wearable technology industry
Table 86. Drivers for Wearable Adoption and Innovation
Table 87. Future Trends in Wearable Technology
Table 88. Applications of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) and Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS)
Table 89. Wearable batteries, displays and communication systems
Table 90. Different sensing modalities that can be incorporated into wrist-worn wearable device
Table 91. Overview of actuating at the wrist
Table 92. Key players in Wrist-Worn Technology
Table 93. Wearable health monitors
Table 94. Sports-watches, smart-watches and fitness trackers producers and products
Table 95. Wearable sensors for sports performance
Table 96. Wearable sensor products for monitoring sport performance
Table 97. Product types in the hearing assistance technology market
Table 98. Audio and Hearing Assistance for Hearables
Table 99. Hearing Assistance Technologies
Table 100. Hearing Assistance Technology Products
Table 101. Sensing options in the ear
Table 102. Sensing Options in the Ear
Table 103. Advantages and Limitations for Blood Pressure Hearables
Table 104. Companies and products in hearables
Table 105. Example wearable sleep tracker products and prices
Table 106. Smart ring products
Table 107. Sleep headband products
Table 108. Sleep Headband Wearables
Table 109. Wearable electronics sleep monitoring products
Table 110. Pet and animal wearable electronics & sensors companies and products
Table 111. Wearable electronics applications in the military
Table 112. Industrial Wearable Electronics Product Table
Table 113. Global market for wearable consumer electronics 2020-2035 by type (Millions Units)
Table 114. Global market revenues for wearable consumer electronics, 2018-2035, (millions USD)
Table 115. Market challenges in consumer wearable electronics
Table 116. Market drivers for printed, flexible and stretchable medical and healthcare sensors and wearables
Table 117. Examples of wearable medical device products
Table 118. Medical wearable companies applying products to COVID-19 monitoring and analysis
Table 119. Applications in flexible and stretchable health monitors, by advanced materials type and benefits thereof
Table 120. Medical wearable companies applying products to temperate and respiratory monitoring and analysis
Table 121. Technologies for minimally-invasive and non-invasive glucose detection-advantages and disadvantages
Table 122. Commercial devices for non-invasive glucose monitoring not released or withdrawn from market
Table 123. Minimally-invasive and non-invasive glucose monitoring products
Table 124. ECG Patch Monitor and Clothing Products
Table 125. PPG Wearable Electronics Companies and Products
Table 126. Pregnancy and Newborn Monitoring Wearables
Table 127. Companies developing wearable swear sensors
Table 128. Wearable electronics drug delivery companies and products
Table 129. Companies and products, cosmetics and drug delivery patches
Table 130. Femtech Wearable Electronics
Table 131. Companies developing femtech wearable technology
Table 132. Companies and products in smart foowtear and insolves
Table 133. Companies and products in smart contact lenses
Table 134. Companies and products in smart wound care
Table 135. Companies developing smart diaper products
Table 136. Companies developing wearable robotics
Table 137. Global Market for Wearable Medical & Healthcare Electronics 2020-2035 (Million Units)
Table 138. Global market for Wearable medical & healthcare electronics, 2020-2035, millions of US dollars
Table 139. Market challenges in medical and healthcare sensors and wearables
Table 140. VR and AR Headset Classification
Table 141. Applications of VR and AR Technology
Table 142. XR Headset OEM Comparison
Table 143. Timeline of Modern VR
Table 144. VR Headset Types
Table 145. AR Outlook by Device Type
Table 146. AR Outlook by Computing Type
Table 147. Augmented reality (AR) smart glass products
Table 148. Mixed Reality (MR) smart glass products
Table 149. Comparison between miniLED displays and other display types
Table 150. Comparison of AR Display Light Engines
Table 151. Comparison to conventional LEDs
Table 152. Types of microLED
Table 153. Summary of monolithic integration, monolithic hybrid integration (flip-chip/wafer bonding), and mass transfer technologies
Table 154. Summary of different mass transfer technologies
Table 155. Comparison to LCD and OLED
Table 156. Schematic comparison to LCD and OLED
Table 157. Commercially available microLED products and specifications
Table 158. microLED-based display advantages and disadvantages
Table 159. MicroLED based smart glass products
Table 160. VR and AR MicroLED products
Table 161. Global market for gaming and entertainment wearable technology, 2020-2035 (Million Units)
Table 162. Global market for gaming and entertainment wearable technology, 2020-2035, millions of US dollars
Table 163. Macro-trends for electronic textiles
Table 164. Market drivers for printed, flexible, stretchable and organic electronic textiles
Table 165. Examples of smart textile products
Table 166. Performance requirements for E-textiles
Table 167. Commercially available smart clothing products
Table 168. Types of smart textiles
Table 169. Comparison of E-textile fabrication methods
Table 170. Types of fabrics for the application of electronic textiles
Table 171. Methods for integrating conductive compounds
Table 172. Methods for integrating conductive yarn and conductive filament fiber
Table 173. 1D electronic fibers including the conductive materials, fabrication strategies, electrical conductivity, stretchability, and applications
Table 174. Conductive materials used in smart textiles, their electrical conductivity and percolation threshold
Table 175. Metal coated fibers and their mechanisms
Table 176. Applications of carbon nanomaterials and other nanomaterials in e-textiles
Table 177. Applications and benefits of graphene in textiles and apparel
Table 178. Properties of CNTs and comparable materials
Table 179. Properties of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)
Table 180. Types of flexible conductive polymers, properties and applications
Table 181. Typical conductive ink formulation
Table 182. Comparative properties of conductive inks
Table 183. Comparison of pros and cons of various types of conductive ink compositions
Table 184: Properties of CNTs and comparable materials
Table 185. Properties of graphene
Table 186. Electrical conductivity of different types of graphene
Table 187. Comparison of the electrical conductivities of liquid metal with typical conductive inks
Table 188. Nanocoatings applied in the smart textiles industry-type of coating, nanomaterials utilized, benefits and applications
Table 189. 3D printed shoes
Table 190. Sensors used in electronic textiles
Table 191. Features of flexible strain sensors with different structures
Table 192. Features of resistive and capacitive strain sensors
Table 193. Typical applications and markets for e-textiles
Table 194. Commercially available E-textiles and smart clothing products
Table 195. Example heated jacket products
Table 196. Heated Gloves Products
Table 197. Heated Insoles Products
Table 198. Heated jacket and clothing products
Table 199. Examples of materials used in flexible heaters and applications
Table 200. Wearable Electronic Therapeutics Products
Table 201. Smart Textiles/E-Textiles for Healthcare and Fitness
Table 202. Example wearable sensor products for monitoring sport performance
Table 203. Companies and products in smart footwear
Table 204. Commercial Applications of Wearable Displays
Table 205. Applications of Wearable Displays
Table 206. Wearable Electronics Applications in Military
Table 207. Smart Gloves Companies and Products
Table 208. Types of Power Supplies for Electronic Textiles
Table 209. Advantages and disadvantages of batteries for E-textiles
Table 210. Comparison of prototype batteries (flexible, textile, and other) in terms of area-specific performance
Table 211. Advantages and disadvantages of photovoltaic, piezoelectric, triboelectric, and thermoelectric energy harvesting in of e-textiles
Table 212. Teslasuit
Table 213. Global market for printed and flexible E-textiles and smart apparel electronics, 2020-2035 (Million Units)
Table 214. Global market for printed and flexible E-textiles and smart apparel electronics, 2020-2035, millions of US dollars
Table 215. Market and technical challenges for E-textiles and smart clothing
Table 216. Macro-trends in energy vstorage and harvesting for wearables
Table 217. Market drivers for Printed and flexible electronic energy storage, generation and harvesting
Table 218. Energy applications for printed/flexible electronics
Table 219. Comparison of Flexible and Traditional Lithium-Ion Batteries
Table 220. Material Choices for Flexible Battery Components
Table 221. Flexible Li-ion battery products
Table 222. Thin film vs bulk solid-state batteries
Table 223. Summary of fiber-shaped lithium-ion batteries
Table 224. Main components and properties of different printed battery types
Table 225. Types of printable current collectors and the materials commonly used
Table 226. Applications of printed batteries and their physical and electrochemical requirements
Table 227. 2D and 3D printing techniques
Table 228. Printing techniques applied to printed batteries
Table 229. Main components and corresponding electrochemical values of lithium-ion printed batteries
Table 230. Printing technique, main components and corresponding electrochemical values of printed batteries based on Zn-MnO2 and other battery types
Table 231. Main 3D Printing techniques for battery manufacturing
Table 232. Electrode Materials for 3D Printed Batteries
Table 233. Main Fabrication Techniques for Thin-Film Batteries
Table 234. Types of solid-state electrolytes
Table 235. Market segmentation and status for solid-state batteries
Table 236. Typical process chains for manufacturing key components and assembly of solid-state batteries
Table 237. Comparison between liquid and solid-state batteries
Table 238. Types of fiber-shaped batteries
Table 239. Components of transparent batteries
Table 240. Components of degradable batteries
Table 241. Types of fiber-shaped batteries
Table 242. Organic vs. Inorganic Solid-State Electrolytes
Table 243. Electrode designs in flexible lithium-ion batteries
Table 244. Packaging Procedures for Pouch Cells
Table 245. Performance Metrics and Characteristics for Printed and Flexible Batteries
Table 246. Methods for printing supercapacitors
Table 247. Electrode Materials for printed supercapacitors
Table 248. Electrolytes for printed supercapacitors
Table 249. Main properties and components of printed supercapacitors
Table 250. Conductive pastes for photovoltaics
Table 251. Companies commercializing thin film flexible photovoltaics
Table 252. Examples of materials used in flexible heaters and applications
Table 253. Transparent heaters for exterior lighting / sensors / windows
Table 254. Types of transparent heaters for automotive exterior applications
Table 255. Smart Window Applications of Transparent Heaters
Table 256. Applications of Printed and Flexible Fuel Cells
Table 257. Market challenges in printed and flexible electronics for energy
Table 258. Global market for printed and flexible energy storage, generation and harvesting electronics, 2020-2035 by type (Volume)
Table 259. Global market for printed and flexible energy storage, generation and harvesting electronics, 2020-2035, millions of US dollars
Table 260. 3DOM separator
Table 261. Battery performance test specifications of J. Flex batteries

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. Examples of flexible electronics devices
Figure 2. Evolution of electronics
Figure 3. Wearable technology inventions
Figure 4. Market map for wearable electronics and sensors
Figure 5. Wove Band
Figure 6. Wearable graphene medical sensor
Figure 7. Stretchable transistor
Figure 8. Artificial skin prototype for gesture recognition
Figure 9. Applications of wearable flexible sensors worn on various body parts
Figure 10. Systemization of wearable electronic systems
Figure 11. Baby Monitor
Figure 12. Wearable health monitor incorporating graphene photodetectors
Figure 13. LG 77” transparent 4K OLED TV
Figure 14. 137-inch N1 foldable TV
Figure 15. Flex Note Extendable™
Figure 16. Flex In & Out Flip
Figure 17. Traxcon printed lighting circuitry
Figure 18. Global Sensor Market Roadmap
Figure 19. Market Roadmap for Wrist-worn Wearables
Figure 20. Market Roadmap for Smart Bands
Figure 21. Market Roadmap for Smart Glasses
Figure 22. Market Roadmap for Smart Clothing and Accessories
Figure 23. Market Roadmap of Market Trends for Skin-Patches
Figure 24. Market Roadmap for Smart Rings
Figure 25.Market Roadmap for Hearables
Figure 26. Market Roadmap for Head Mounted Wearables
Figure 27. Roadmap for Wearable Optical Heart-rate Sensors
Figure 28. SWOT analysis for printed electronics
Figure 29. SWOT analysis for 3D electronics
Figure 30. SWOT analysis for analogue printing
Figure 31. SWOT analysis for digital printing
Figure 32. In-mold electronics prototype devices and products
Figure 33. SWOT analysis for In-Mold Electronics
Figure 34. SWOT analysis for R2R manufacturing
Figure 35. The molecular mechanism of the shape memory effect under different stimuli
Figure 36. Supercooled Soldering™ Technology
Figure 37. Reflow soldering schematic
Figure 38. Schematic diagram of induction heating reflow
Figure 39. Types of conductive inks and applications
Figure 40. Copper based inks on flexible substrate
Figure 41. SWOT analysis for Printable semiconductors
Figure 42. SWOT analysis for Printable sensor materials
Figure 43. RFID Tag with Nano Copper Antenna on Paper
Figure 44. SWOT analysis for flexible integrated circuits
Figure 45. Fully-printed organic thin-film transistors and circuitry on one-micron-thick polymer films
Figure 46. Flexible PCB
Figure 47. SWOT analysis for Flexible batteries
Figure 48. SWOT analysis for Flexible PV for energy harvesting
Figure 49. Roadmap of wearable sensor technology segmented by key biometrics
Figure 50. Wearable Technology Roadmap, by function
Figure 51. Actuator types
Figure 52. EmeTerm nausea relief wearable
Figure 53. Embr Wave for cooling and warming
Figure 54. dpl Wrist Wrap Light THerapy pain relief
Figure 55. Roadmap for Wrist-Worn Wearables
Figure 56. SWOT analysis for Wrist-worn wearables
Figure 57. FitBit Sense Watch
Figure 58. Wearable bio-fluid monitoring system for monitoring of hydration
Figure 59. Evolution of Ear-Worn Wearables
Figure 60. Nuheara IQbuds² Max
Figure 61. HP Hearing PRO OTC Hearing Aid
Figure 62. SWOT analysis for Ear worn wearables (hearables)
Figure 63. Commercialization Timeline for Hearable Sensing Technologies
Figure 64. Roadmap of Market Trends for Hearables
Figure 65. Beddr SleepTuner
Figure 66. Global market for wearable consumer electronics 2020-2035 by type (Volume)
Figure 67. Global market revenues for wearable consumer electronics, 2018-2035, (millions USD)
Figure 68. The Apollo wearable device
Figure 69. Cyclops HMD
Figure 70. C2Sense sensors
Figure 71. Coachwhisperer device
Figure 72. Cogwear headgear
Figure 73. CardioWatch 287
Figure 74. FRENZ™ Brainband
Figure 75. NightOwl Home Sleep Apnea Test Device
Figure 76. eQ02 LIfeMontor
Figure 77. Cove wearable device
Figure 78. German bionic exoskeleton
Figure 79. UnlimitedHand
Figure 80. Apex Exosuit
Figure 81. Humanox Shin Guard
Figure 82. Airvida E1
Figure 83. Footrax
Figure 84. eMacula®
Figure 85. G2 Pro
Figure 86. REFLEX
Figure 87. Ring ZERO
Figure 88. Mawi Heart Patch
Figure 89. Ayo wearable light therapy
Figure 90. Nowatch
Figure 91. ORII smart ring
Figure 92. Proxxi Voltage
Figure 93. RealWear HMT-1
Figure 94. Moonwalkers from Shift Robotics Inc
Figure 95. SnowCookie device
Figure 96. Soter device
Figure 97. Feelzing Energy Patch
Figure 98. Wiliot tags
Figure 99. Connected human body and product examples
Figure 100. Companies and products in wearable health monitoring and rehabilitation devices and products
Figure 101. Smart e-skin system comprising health-monitoring sensors, displays, and ultra flexible PLEDs
Figure 102. Graphene medical patch
Figure 103. Graphene-based E-skin patch
Figure 104. Enfucell wearable temperature tag
Figure 105. TempTraQ wearable wireless thermometer
Figure 106. Technologies for minimally-invasive and non-invasive glucose detection
Figure 107. Schematic of non-invasive CGM sensor
Figure 108. Adhesive wearable CGM sensor
Figure 109. VitalPatch
Figure 110. Wearable ECG-textile
Figure 111. Wearable ECG recorder
Figure 112. Nexkin™
Figure 113. Bloomlife
Figure 114. Nanowire skin hydration patch
Figure 115. NIX sensors
Figure 116. Wearable sweat sensor
Figure 117. Wearable graphene sweat sensor
Figure 118. Gatorade's GX Sweat Patch
Figure 119. Sweat sensor incorporated into face mask
Figure 120. D-mine Pump
Figure 121. Lab-on-Skin™
Figure 122. My UV Patch
Figure 123. Overview layers of L'Oreal skin patch
Figure 124. Brilliantly Warm
Figure 125. Ava Fertility tracker
Figure 126. S9 Pro breast pump
Figure 127. Tempdrop
Figure 128. Digitsole Smartshoe
Figure 129. Schematic of smart wound dressing
Figure 130. REPAIR electronic patch concept. Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Figure 131. ABENA Nova smart diaper
Figure 132. Honda Walking Assist
Figure 133. ABLE Exoskeleton
Figure 134. ANGEL-LEGS-M10
Figure 135. AGADEXO Shoulder
Figure 136. Enyware
Figure 137. AWN-12 occupational powered hip exoskeleton
Figure 138. CarrySuit passive upper-body exoskeleton
Figure 139. Axosuit lower body medical exoskeleton
Figure 140. FreeGait
Figure 141. InMotion Arm
Figure 142. Biomotum SPARK
Figure 143. PowerWalk energy
Figure 144. Keeogo™
Figure 145. MATE-XT
Figure 146. CDYS passive shoulder support exoskeleton
Figure 147. ALDAK
Figure 148. HAL® Lower Limb
Figure 149. DARWING PA
Figure 150. Dephy ExoBoot
Figure 151. EksoNR
Figure 152. Emovo Assist
Figure 153. HAPO
Figure 154. Atlas passive modular exoskeleton
Figure 155. ExoAtlet II
Figure 156. ExoHeaver
Figure 157. Exy ONE
Figure 158. ExoArm
Figure 159. ExoMotus
Figure 160. Gloreha Sinfonia
Figure 161. BELK Knee Exoskeleton
Figure 162. Apex exosuit
Figure 163. Honda Walking Assist
Figure 164. BionicBack
Figure 165. Muscle Suit
Figure 166.Japet.W powered exoskeleton
Figure 167.Ski~Mojo
Figure 168. AIRFRAME passive shoulder
Figure 169.FORTIS passive tool holding exoskeleton
Figure 170. Integrated Soldier Exoskeleton (UPRISE®)
Figure 171.UNILEXA passive exoskeleton
Figure 172.HandTutor
Figure 173.MyoPro®
Figure 174.Myosuit
Figure 175. archelis wearable chair
Figure 176.Chairless Chair
Figure 177.Indego
Figure 178. Polyspine
Figure 179. Hercule powered lower body exoskeleton
Figure 180. ReStore Soft Exo-Suit
Figure 181. Hand of Hope
Figure 182. REX powered exoskeleton
Figure 183. Elevate Ski Exoskeleton
Figure 184. UGO210 exoskeleton
Figure 185. EsoGLOVE Pro
Figure 186. Roki
Figure 187. Powered Clothing
Figure 188. Againer shock absorbing exoskeleton
Figure 189. EasyWalk Assistive Soft Exoskeleton Walker
Figure 190. Skel-Ex
Figure 191. EXO-H3 lower limbs robotic exoskeleton
Figure 192. Ikan Tilta Max Armor-Man 2
Figure 193. AMADEO hand and finger robotic rehabilitation device
Figure 194.Atalante autonomous lower-body exoskeleton
Figure 195. Global Market for Wearable Medical & Healthcare Electronics 2020-2035 (Million Units)
Figure 196. Global market for Wearable medical & healthcare electronics, 2020-2035, millions of US dollars
Figure 197. Libre 3
Figure 198. Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biowearable
Figure 199. AcuPebble SA100
Figure 200. Vitalgram®
Figure 201. Alertgy NICGM wristband
Figure 202. ALLEVX
Figure 203. Gastric Alimetry
Figure 204. Alva Health stroke monitor
Figure 205. amofit S
Figure 206. MIT and Amorepacific's chip-free skin sensor
Figure 207. Sigi™ Insulin Management System
Figure 208. The Apollo wearable device
Figure 209. Apos3
Figure 210. Artemis is smart clothing system
Figure 211. KneeStim
Figure 212. PaciBreath
Figure 213. Structure of Azalea Vision’s smart contact lens
Figure 214. Belun® Ring
Figure 215. Neuronaute wearable
Figure 216. biped.ai device
Figure 217. circul smart ring
Figure 218. Cala Trio
Figure 219. BioSleeve®
Figure 220. Cognito's gamma stimulation device
Figure 221. Cogwear Headband
Figure 222. First Relief
Figure 223. Jewel Patch Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator
Figure 224. enFuse
Figure 225. EOPatch
Figure 226. Epilog
Figure 227. FloPatch
Figure 228. Hinge Health wearable therapy devices
Figure 229. MYSA - 'Relax Shirt'
Figure 230. Atusa system
Figure 231. Kenzen ECHO Smart Patch
Figure 232. The Kernel Flow headset
Figure 233. KnowU™
Figure 234. LifeSpan patch
Figure 235. Mawi Heart Patch
Figure 236. WalkAid
Figure 237. Monarch™ Wireless Wearable Biosensor
Figure 238. Modoo device
Figure 239. Munevo Drive
Figure 240. Electroskin integration schematic
Figure 241. Modius Sleep wearable device
Figure 242. Neuphony Headband
Figure 243. Nix Biosensors patch
Figure 244. Otolith wearable device
Figure 245. Peerbridge Cor
Figure 246. Point Fit Technology skin patch
Figure 247. Sylvee 1.0
Figure 248. RootiRx
Figure 249. Sylvee 1.0
Figure 250. Silvertree Reach
Figure 251. Smardii smart diaper
Figure 252. Subcuject
Figure 253. Nerivio
Figure 254. Feelzing Energy Patch
Figure 255. Ultrahuman wearable glucose monitor
Figure 256. Vaxxas patch
Figure 257. S-Patch Ex
Figure 258. Zeit Medical Wearable Headband
Figure 259. Evolution of Smart Eyewear
Figure 260. Engo Eyewear
Figure 261. Lenovo ThinkReality A3
Figure 262. Magic Leap 1
Figure 263. Microsoft HoloLens 2
Figure 264. OPPO Air Glass AR
Figure 265. Snap Spectacles AR (4th gen)
Figure 266. Vuzix Blade Upgraded
Figure 267. NReal Light MR smart glasses
Figure 268. Schematic for configuration of full colour microLED display
Figure 269. BOE glass-based backplane process
Figure 270. MSI curved quantum dot miniLED display
Figure 271. Nanolumi Chameleon® G Film in LED/LCD Monitor
Figure 272. Vuzix microLED microdisplay Smart Glasses
Figure 273. Pixels per inch roadmap of µ-LED displays from 2007 to 2019
Figure 274. Mass transfer for µLED chips
Figure 275. Schematic diagram of mass transfer technologies
Figure 276. Comparison of microLED with other display technologies
Figure 277. Lextar 10.6 inch transparent microLED display
Figure 278. Transition to borderless design
Figure 279. Mojo Vision smart contact lens with an embedded MicroLED display
Figure 280. Global market for gaming and entertainment wearable technology, 2020-2035 (Million Units)
Figure 281. Global market for gaming and entertainment wearable technology, 2020-2035, millions of US dollars
Figure 282. Skinetic vest
Figure 283. IntelliPix™ design for 0.26" 1080p microLED display
Figure 284. Dapeng DPVR P1 Pro 4k VR all-in-one VR glasses
Figure 285. Vive Focus 3 VR headset Wrist Tracker
Figure 286. Huawei smart glasses
Figure 287. Jade Bird Display micro displays
Figure 288. JBD's 0.13-inch panel
Figure 289. 0.22” Monolithic full colour microLED panel and inset shows a conceptual monolithic polychrome projector with a waveguide
Figure 290. Kura Technologies' AR Glasses
Figure 291. Smart contact lenses schematic
Figure 292. OQmented technology for AR smart glasses
Figure 293. VISIRIUM® Technology smart glasses prototype
Figure 294. SenseGlove Nova
Figure 295. MeganeX
Figure 296. A micro-display with a stacked-RGB pixel array, where each pixel is an RGB-emitting stacked microLED device (left). The micro-display showing a video of fireworks at night, demonstrating the full-colour capability (right). N.B. Areas around the display
Figure 297. JioGlass mixed reality glasses type headset
Figure 298. Vuzix uLED display engine
Figure 299. Xiaomi Smart Glasses
Figure 300. SWOT analysis for printed, flexible and hybrid electronics in E-textiles
Figure 301. Timeline of the different generations of electronic textiles
Figure 302. Examples of each generation of electronic textiles
Figure 303. Conductive yarns
Figure 304. Electronics integration in textiles: (a) textile-adapted, (b) textile-integrated (c) textile-basd
Figure 305. Stretchable polymer encapsulation microelectronics on textiles
Figure 306. Wove Band
Figure 307. Wearable graphene medical sensor
Figure 308. Conductive yarns
Figure 309. Classification of conductive materials and process technology
Figure 310. Structure diagram of Ti3C2Tx
Figure 311. Structure of hexagonal boron nitride
Figure 312. BN nanosheet textiles application
Figure 313. SEM image of cotton fibers with PEDOT:PSS coating
Figure 314. Schematic of inkjet-printed processes
Figure 315: Silver nanocomposite ink after sintering and resin bonding of discrete electronic components
Figure 316. Schematic summary of the formulation of silver conductive inks
Figure 317. Copper based inks on flexible substrate
Figure 318: Schematic of single-walled carbon nanotube
Figure 319. Stretchable SWNT memory and logic devices for wearable electronics
Figure 320. Graphene layer structure schematic
Figure 321. BGT Materials graphene ink product
Figure 322. PCM cooling vest
Figure 323. SMPU-treated cotton fabrics
Figure 324. Schematics of DIAPLEX membrane
Figure 325. SMP energy storage textiles
Figure 326. Nike x Acronym Blazer Sneakers
Figure 327. Adidas 3D Runner Pump
Figure 328. Under Armour Archi-TechFuturist
Figure 329. Reebok Reebok Liquid Speed
Figure 330. Radiate sports vest
Figure 331. Adidas smart insole
Figure 332. Applications of E-textiles
Figure 333. EXO2 Stormwalker 2 Heated Jacket
Figure 334. Flexible polymer-based heated glove, sock and slipper
Figure 335. ThermaCell Rechargeable Heated Insoles
Figure 336. Myant sleeve tracks biochemical indicators in sweat
Figure 337. Flexible polymer-based therapeutic products
Figure 338. iStimUweaR
Figure 339. Digitsole Smartshoe
Figure 340. Basketball referee Royole fully flexible display
Figure 341. A mechanical glove, Robo-Glove, with pressure sensors and other sensors jointly developed by General Motors and NASA
Figure 342. Power supply mechanisms for electronic textiles and wearables
Figure 343. Micro-scale energy scavenging techniques
Figure 344. Schematic illustration of the fabrication concept for textile-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) made by sewing textile electrodes onto cloth or paper
Figure 345. 3D printed piezoelectric material
Figure 346. Application of electronic textiles in AR/VR
Figure 347. Global market for printed and flexible E-textiles and smart apparel electronics, 2020-2035 (Million Units)
Figure 348. Global market for printed and flexible E-textiles and smart apparel electronics, 2020-2035, millions of US dollars
Figure 349. BioMan
Figure 350. EXO Glove
Figure 351. LED hooded jacket
Figure 352. Heated element module
Figure 353. Carhartt X-1 Smart Heated Vest
Figure 354. Cionic Neural Sleeve
Figure 355. Graphene dress. The dress changes colour in sync with the wearer’s breathing
Figure 356. Descante Solar Thermo insulated jacket
Figure 357. G Graphene Aero Jersey
Figure 358. HiFlex strain/pressure sensor
Figure 359. KiTT motion tracking knee sleeve
Figure 360. Healables app-controlled electrotherapy device
Figure 361. LumeoLoop device
Figure 362. Electroskin integration schematic
Figure 363. Nextiles’ compression garments
Figure 364. Nextiles e-fabric
Figure 365 .Nuada
Figure 366. Palarum PUP smart socks
Figure 367. Smardii smart diaper
Figure 368. Softmatter compression garment
Figure 369. Softmatter sports bra with a woven ECG sensor
Figure 370. MoCap Pro Glove
Figure 371. Teslasuit
Figure 372. ZOZOFIT wearable at-home 3D body scanner
Figure 373. YouCare smart shirt
Figure 374. SWOT analysis for printed, flexible and hybrid electronics in energy
Figure 375. Examples of Flexible batteries on the market
Figure 376. Stretchable lithium-ion battery for flexible electronics
Figure 377. Loomia E-textile
Figure 378. BrightVolt battery
Figure 379. ProLogium solid-state technology
Figure 380. Amprius Li-ion batteries
Figure 381. MOLEX thin-film battery
Figure 382. Flexible batteries on the market
Figure 383. Various architectures for flexible and stretchable electrochemical energy storage
Figure 384. Types of flexible batteries
Figure 385. Materials and design structures in flexible lithium ion batteries
Figure 386. Flexible/stretchable LIBs with different structures
Figure 387. a-c) Schematic illustration of coaxial (a), twisted (b), and stretchable (c) LIBs
Figure 388. a) Schematic illustration of the fabrication of the superstretchy LIB based on an MWCNT/LMO composite fiber and an MWCNT/LTO composite fiber. b,c) Photograph (b) and the schematic illustration (c) of a stretchable fiber-shaped battery under stretching conditions. d) Schematic illustration of the spring-like stretchable LIB. e) SEM images of a fiberat different strains. f) Evolution of specific capacitance with strain. d-f)
Figure 389. Origami disposable battery
Figure 390. Zn-MnO2 batteries produced by Brightvolt
Figure 391. Various applications of printed paper batteries
Figure 392.Schematic representation of the main components of a battery
Figure 393. Schematic of a printed battery in a sandwich cell architecture, where the anode and cathode of the battery are stacked together
Figure 394. Sakuú's Swift Print 3D-printed solid-state battery cells
Figure 395. Manufacturing Processes for Conventional Batteries (I), 3D Microbatteries (II), and 3D-Printed Batteries (III)
Figure 396. Examples of applications of thin film batteries
Figure 397. Capacities and voltage windows of various cathode and anode materials
Figure 398. Traditional lithium-ion battery (left), solid state battery (right)
Figure 399. Stretchable lithium-air battery for wearable electronics
Figure 400. Ag-Zn batteries produced by Imprint Energy
Figure 401. Transparent batteries
Figure 402. Degradable batteries
Figure 403 . Fraunhofer IFAM printed electrodes
Figure 404. Ragone plots of diverse batteries and the commonly used electronics powered by flexible batteries
Figure 405. Schematic of the structure of stretchable LIBs
Figure 406. Electrochemical performance of materials in flexible LIBs
Figure 407. Main printing methods for supercapacitors
Figure 408. Schematic illustration of the fabrication concept for textile-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) made by sewing textile electrodes onto cloth or paper
Figure 409. Origami-like silicon solar cells
Figure 410. Schematic illustration of the fabrication concept for textile-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) made by sewing textile electrodes onto cloth or paper
Figure 411. Concept of microwave-transparent heaters for automotive radars
Figure 412. Defrosting and defogging transparent heater applications
Figure 413. Global market for printed and flexible energy storage, generation and harvesting electronics, 2020-2035 by type (Volume)
Figure 414. Global market for printed and flexible energy storage, generation and harvesting electronics, 2020-2035, millions of US dollars
Figure 415. 3DOM battery
Figure 416. AC biode prototype
Figure 417. Ampcera’s all-ceramic dense solid-state electrolyte separator sheets (25 um thickness, 50mm x 100mm size, flexible and defect free, room temperature ionic conductivity ~1 mA/cm)
Figure 418. Ateios thin-film, printed battery
Figure 419. 3D printed lithium-ion battery
Figure 420. TempTraq wearable patch
Figure 421. SoftBattery®
Figure 422. Roll-to-roll equipment working with ultrathin steel substrate
Figure 423. TAeTTOOz printable battery materials
Figure 424. Exeger Powerfoyle
Figure 425. 2D paper batteries
Figure 426. 3D Custom Format paper batteries
Figure 427. Hitachi Zosen solid-state battery
Figure 428. Ilika solid-state batteries
Figure 429. TAeTTOOz printable battery materials
Figure 430. LiBEST flexible battery
Figure 431. 3D solid-state thin-film battery technology
Figure 432. Schematic illustration of three-chamber system for SWCNH production
Figure 433. TEM images of carbon nanobrush
Figure 434. Printed Energy flexible battery
Figure 435. Printed battery
Figure 436. ProLogium solid-state battery
Figure 437. Sakuú Corporation 3Ah Lithium Metal Solid-state Battery
Figure 438. Samsung SDI's sixth-generation prismatic batteries
Figure 439. Grepow flexible battery

Companies Mentioned (Partial List)

A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:

  •  Abbott Diabetes Care
  • Artinis Medical Systems
  • Biobeat Technologies
  • Biosency
  • Bosch Sensortec
  • Cerca Magnetics
  • Cosinuss
  • Datwyler
  • Dexcom
  • DigiLens
  • Dispelix
  • Doublepoint
  • EarSwitch
  • Emteq Limited
  • Epicore Biosystems
  • Equivital
  • HTC
  • IDUN Technologies
  • IQE
  • Infi-Tex
  • Jade Bird Display
  • Know Labs
  • Kokoon
  • Lenovo
  • LetinAR
  • Liquid Wire
  • Lumus
  • Lynx
  • Mateligent GmbH
  • MICLEDI
  • MICROOLED
  • Mojo Vision
  • Nanoleq
  • Nanusens
  • NeuroFusion
  • Oorym
  • Optinvent
  • OQmented
  • Orpyx
  • Ostendo Technologies
  • PKVitality
  • PragmatIC
  • PROPHESEE
  • RayNeo (TCL)
  • Raynergy Tek
  • Rhaeos Inc
  • Sefar
  • Segotia
  • Sony
  • STMicroelectronics
  • StretchSense
  • Tacterion
  • TDK
  • Teveri
  • The Metaverse Standards Forum
  • TriLite Technologies
  • TruLife Optics
  • Valencell
  • Vitality
  • VitreaLab
  • VividQ
  • Wearable Devices Ltd.
  • WHOOP
  • Wisear
  • Withings Health Solutions
  • XSensio
  • Zimmer
  • Peacock

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