What's the difference between gadget and wearable?

Gadget


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (2) With sales of tablets, smartphones and gadgets predicted to soar this Christmas , many British households will soon be temples to the latest technology.
  • (3) Sony has announced a new cloud-based gaming service, which will bring classic PlayStation titles to a range of gadgets, from tablet computers to televisions.
  • (4) The first C had been into gadgets, including building a grandfather clock that stood outside his office at Vauxhall Cross.
  • (5) Alas for them, the gadget doesn’t let them know that all of their vainglorious conversations are already being recorded by said Old Bill.
  • (6) Storing details of everything you do isn't a new concept, but a new breed of apps and gadgets is helping… 1 Lifelogging apps for smartphones There are several dedicated lifelogging apps for smartphones in 2014, taking advantage of the data and sensors inside your device.
  • (7) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
  • (8) Giant screens blare out ads for electronic gadgets and energy drinks.
  • (9) The sector is partly driven by increasing global demand for minerals such as tin and tungsten, which are used widely in the construction of high-technology gadgets.
  • (10) The iPad is the first mass-market mobile device to use micro-Sim cards, which are smaller than the current range of Sim cards and were designed for small consumer gadgets such as Birmingham-based Lok8u's range of wireless-enabled wrist watches.
  • (11) Aberdare has a covered market near the station, where fruit and vegetables and meat and fish are for sale, alongside knitting wool and clothes and gimmicks and gadgets.
  • (12) Their “biobattery”, which releases energy from sugar instead of chemicals such as lithium, used in batteries found in today's electronic gadgets, could replace conventional disposable or rechargeable batteries – and is cheaper, refillable, biodegradable and more environmentally friendly.
  • (13) Best gadget: "Revolving number plates, naturally"; making the Aston Martin valid for Britain, France and Switzerland.
  • (14) Occasionally it has been unobtrusive – such as Nationwide's sponsorship of the cash machine in Dev's corner shop in Coronation Street – but elsewhere it's been jarring – such as ITV's deal with Samsung for The X-Factor , which led to scenes of contestants squealing with delight to receive goody bags of Samsung gadgets, and turned every phone call and video diary entry into a mini-plug for the brand.
  • (15) Translated into English, that means billions of gadgets, each one of them connected to the internet and communicating madly with one another without much in the way of human intervention.
  • (16) How to hack household technology and turn everyday gadgets into radical new devices will be this year's theme of Britain's most prestigious public science lectures.
  • (17) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
  • (18) Indeed there's no particular reason why we'll be working these things via screens; we've already got plenty of those and the gadget companies are working hard to find other ways to communicate.
  • (19) His appointment speaks volumes about where Channel 5's ambitions lie – in cost-effective formats and those with spin-offs, such as The Gadget Show.
  • (20) It is obviously understandable because of its very nature; nevertheless, think about how much more focused on content quality everybody would be if they were not to deal with new gadgets every month or so.

Wearable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The immediate future will bring us: WAK (Wearable Artificial Kidney) FAK (Filtrating Artificial Kidney) PAK (Peritoneal Artificial Kidney) HAK (Hemoperfusion Artificial Kidney).
  • (2) You will leave your house without your watch or wristband, but you will never leave your house without your shoes.” Blending in with existing apparel The challenge faced by Google Glass and other wearable technologies is that they rely on the user being prepared to wear an extra item of apparel.
  • (3) With wearable computing just around the corner cracking integration with you, and indeed the organic-body, is critical for Apple and a final piece in the puzzle.
  • (4) It could be that wearables are poised for a tsunami of success.
  • (5) Cook appeared more keen to talk about the wearable technology trend – Google is already marketing its video recording, phone call making glasses, while Apple is reported to be developing a computer that can be worn on the wrist.
  • (6) It is necessary for the wearable module to be connected to the 20 L dialysate bath for an average of 90 minutes to achieve adequate urea and 5+ removal.
  • (7) Before long, smartphones will be able to deduce our emotional state from our social interactions and tone of voice, while wearable sensors will measure adherence to "smart" medicines and gather important data on a range of factors relevant to mental health, including sleep quality, cardiovascular status, galvanic skin response and even gait.
  • (8) Slimane is famous for his ultra-slim proportions, but his clothes are surprisingly wearable due to the atelier's workers' ability to scale up size without ruining proportions.
  • (9) Shine isn’t the only healthcare professional considering how wearable technology can transform the sector.
  • (10) Think wearable tech: Google Glass, for instance, or Oculus Rift , both of which extend the possibilities even further to virtual or augmented realities and audiences existing within artworks, not simply looking on.
  • (11) Apple’s highly anticipated entry into the world of wearable technology is the Apple Watch, CEO Tim Cook announced on Tuesday.
  • (12) The wearable unit consists of a combined blood and dialysate pump (1.2 kg), rechargeable batteries, tubing, Dow dialyser and charcoal regeneration module with a total weight of 3.5kg.
  • (13) Moves to make clothes wearable for longer, while ensuring they remain fashionable and saleable, are now underway.
  • (14) It's a partnership with Puma, the German sports company, and is claimed to be "a wearable fashion accessory".
  • (15) Although single or multiple daily subcutaneous injections of insulin are the mainstay of insulin delivery techniques, several other methods of insulin delivery are now available or in development, including: (a) continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion by a wearable infusion pump; (b) total or segmental transplantation of a pancreas; (c) transplantation of isolated islet cells; (d) implantation of a programmable insulin pump; (e) oral, nasal, rectal and transdermal mechanisms of insulin delivery; (f) insulin analogues; (g) implantation of polymeric capsules which give continuous or time-pulsed release of insulin; and (h) implantation of a biohybrid artificial pancreas which uses encapsulated islets.
  • (16) These examples of images on the websites of Autographer and Narrative Clip , two leading wearable cameras, reveal the kind of things their makers imagine we might do with their devices.
  • (17) The startup took inspiration from Google’s modular smartphone concept Project Ara , and iterated the idea into a wearable.
  • (18) The slide also showed examples of a range of equipment that could be issued with in future including a camera, “wearable computing” (such as a smart watch) and what appear to be Google Glass-type spectacles designed to enhance “ situational awareness ”.
  • (19) Wearable computing has recently become a red-hot area for investment and development in Silicon Valley.
  • (20) The wearable type of closed-loop system has been developed recently for the first time by the authors.

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