Friday, March 29, 2024

Wearable Tech to Enhance Your Next Music Festival

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*In our parents’ day, the only piece of “wearable technology” widely available was a snazzy digital watch that lit up when they pushed a button. These days, we use wearable tech to monitor everything from how many steps we take a day and how many calories we burn during our workouts to what we need to pick up at the grocery store.

Wearable tech also has some pretty amazing applications for concertgoers. Let’s take a look at two examples that have already been used in major music festivals, as well as a couple of wearable devices that may help you enjoy your next concert even more:

Lightwave wristband

Lightwave is a piece of wearable technology that can collect real-time data about the wearer—things like your movements, audio levels and temperature. This innovative piece of tech was launched during SXSW Interactive 2014 at a BioReactive concert sponsored by Pepsi. The feedback from the Lightwave wristband was sent directly to the performers, which helped to give them an idea of how the audience felt throughout the show. Thanks to incredible technology like this, performers won’t have to rely on traditional measures of audience happiness like cheering; instead they can pick up on your swaying and dancing, and clapping to the light show. The creators of Lightwave hope the wristband will emotionally connect audiences to the performer and vice versa.

Wristbands linked to credit cards

Last year’s Lollapalooza concert featured more than amazing music. The Chicago festival offered the audience the chance to wear tech that could be linked to their credit and debit card information. The wristbands were sent to attendees before the event and allowed them to pay for food and drinks without carrying cash or swiping a card.

Wearable Smartwatch from Samsung

If you have a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, you may want to consider getting a Samsung Gear S Wearable Smartwatch before your next music festival. Available at T-Mobile, this is Samsung’s first-ever wearable device that’s connected to the 4G network. Instead of keeping track of your smartphone during the show and worrying that it might fall out of your pocket and break, you’ll have all of the bells and whistles of your phone attached to your wrist. You can easily text your concert buddies to meet up and even check your work emails during intermission. If you are unsure how to get to the venue, the Samsung Smartwatch comes with GPS to help get you there.

Wearable camera

Thanks to wearable cameras, it will be easier than ever for you to get footage of your fave performers. For example, for around $150 you can get a Narrative Clip wearable camera from Adorama that connects right to your clothing. The rechargeable battery lasts for 30 hours and it has a built-in accelerometer that makes sure your shots are oriented correctly, no matter how you are wearing it. You can share your great concert shots directly from the Adorama to Facebook and Instagram and then upload your pictures to the cloud to share them with your other music fan friends.

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