{"id":54691,"date":"2016-04-14T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=54691"},"modified":"2016-04-15T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:01:26","slug":"hmmm-interesting-unlocking-the-past-how-wearable-tech-could-help-get-us-back-to-our-roots-coughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/04\/14\/hmmm-interesting-unlocking-the-past-how-wearable-tech-could-help-get-us-back-to-our-roots-coughlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmmm. Interesting. &#8220;Unlocking the past: How wearable tech could help get us back to our roots&#8221; [Coughlin]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wareable.com\/wearable-tech\/wearables-and-genealogy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Unlocking the past: How wearable tech could help get us back to our roots<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wareable.com by Daniel Coughlin<br \/>\n<em>A genealogy expert predicts the future of using wearables to see into your past<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wareable.com\/wearable-tech\/wearables-and-genealogy\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wareable.com\/media\/imager\/12242-f10a482a7a6120786be38eda5a575f22.jpg\" alt=\"Could wearable tech unlock the past?\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Imagine if you could snap on a DNA-matching wristband that connects you with long lost cousins, or pick up a personalised VR headset game that could immerse you in the lives of your ancestors? &#8220;It&#8217;s simply a matter of time before we could see this sort of technology,&#8221; says genealogy expert Thomas MacEntee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Known in the industry as &#8216;The Tech Guy&#8217;, MacEntee runs an online community of 3,000 family history bloggers called GeneaBloggers. He also heads up Hack Genealogy, a blog about &#8220;repurposing today&#8217;s technology for tomorrow&#8217;s genealogy&#8221;, as well as the consulting site High-Definition Genealogy. MacEntee is renowned in the industry for spotting emerging family history trends and innovations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Wearable technology for genealogy research and exploration is currently in its very early days. Ancestry.com, the world&#8217;s leading genealogy website, has made the industry&#8217;s first foray with its Ancestry app for Apple Watch, which launched last April. The app offers speedy access to Ancestry.com&#8217;s 14 billion records and images, allows the user to edit their family tree in an instant and delivers regular family history-related notifications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That&#8217;s pretty much it for the moment \u2013 but MacEntee, who has envisaged a number of exciting potential uses, believes that this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlocking the past: How wearable tech could help get us back to our roots &#8212; from wareable.com by Daniel Coughlin A genealogy expert predicts the future of using wearables to see into your past &nbsp; &nbsp; Excerpt: Imagine if you could snap on a DNA-matching wristband that connects you with long lost cousins, or pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,234,419,180,248,480,195,367,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-history","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-relationships","category-society","category-tools","category-vendors","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54765,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691\/revisions\/54765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}