
Children's Nonfiction How Things Work-are Made
Superpower?
The Wearable-Tech Revolution
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Category
- How Things Work-Are Made, Inventions, Robotics
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459828292
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $18.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781459828278
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $24.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9 to 12
- Grade: 4 to 7
- Reading age: 9 to 12
Description
Super strength, super hearing, super vision and super connection. Wearable technology may soon give humans super powers.
Imagine being able to run without getting tired. Or travel to the moon to observe Earth for science class. The technologies that could make these things possible are mixing into our lives faster than we realize. The stakes are high. In Superpowers: The Wearable-Tech Revolution, young readers will discover how technological innovation can help people survive and thrive, but the book also asks readers to question whether it should. What if super strength results in endless work? What if hackers can read our thoughts? Meet the inventors, designers, engineers, scientists and young people navigating the next tech frontier.
About the authors
Elaine Kachala is a health-policy researcher, writer and adviser. She has over 20 years of writing experience with health agencies. Superpower? The Wearable-Tech Revolution is her first book. She’s curious and hopeful but can’t help being a little worried about how wearables will impact our health, well-being and equity. With degrees in psychology and sociology from the University of Toronto and a master of environmental studies from York University, she brings a unique perspective to the topic. Elaine lives with her family in Toronto.
Belle Wuthrich is an illustrator and designer specializing in books for young readers. Based in Vancouver, Belle has contributed to more than a dozen books for kids, a number of which have won awards or been republished internationally, including the Montaigne Medal Award–winning Eyes and Spies: How You’re Tracked and Why You Should Know and the Silver Birch Award nominee Eat Up: An Infographic Exploration of Food.
Other titles by Belle Wuthrich

Urgent Message from a Hot Planet
Navigating the Climate Crisis

It Takes Guts
How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (and Poop)

The Disability Experience
Working Toward Belonging

Heads Up
Changing Minds on Mental Health

Choosing to Live, Choosing to Die
The Complexities of Assisted Dying

Rising Seas
Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World

Eat Up
An Infographic Exploration of Food

Eyes and Spies
How You're Tracked and Why You Should Know

Water Wow!
A Visual Exploration