Wearable technologies have garnered significant attention due to their ease in gathering essential information about the wearer’s condition. These devices are crucial for real-time and long-term health monitoring and disease diagnosis, while also alerting wearers promptly. They have the potential to revolutionize the healthcare sector by enabling remote and continuous healthcare monitoring, leading to advanced health outcomes, personalized medicine, and patient empowerment. 

Wearable devices incorporate advanced sensors for monitoring vital parameters such as temperature, pressure, strain, heart rate, and respiration rate. They can be worn directly on the skin of various body parts and can detect biomarkers in breath and body fluids in a minimally invasive way. Wearables offer new opportunities for remote and continuous healthcare monitoring and come in different forms, such as stretchable, flexible, and soft electronics, as well as textiles. 

Recent technological advancements have led to the development of various wearable devices by integrating them with advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), revolutionizing healthcare to achieve advanced personalized outcomes. Notably, wearable technologies also have applications in agriculture, where they can be fastened to plants to monitor temperature, humidity, moisture, and nutrient levels. 

This Methods Collection aims to demonstrate current techniques and fabrication methods in wearable technology. It seeks to provide broader access to recent methods, share knowledge, and assist researchers by offering comprehensive resources and protocols. This will contribute to advancements in the field, facilitating innovation and fostering collaboration across disciplines to drive future breakthroughs in wearable technology.