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The year of wearable computing started early
The year of wearable computing started early
Business News reports that Founder and Chairman of Consumer Electronics Distributor Widget UK Ltd, Mark Needham, examines the electronics market and the rise of a niche consumable, wearable computing.
Taken as a whole, retail spending on consumer electronics is expected to be flat or slightly declining in 2013, as the market for flat screen televisions reaches saturation and spending on home PCs decline.
But within that overall trend, there will be categories of products which grow in sales. Wearable computing which monitors fitness, health, activity or other bodily functions will be one of the fastest growing segments with sales expected to at least double from 2013 over 2012.
13 eye-opening figures about wearable tech
13 eye-opening figures about wearable tech
Andrew Nusca reports that wearable computing is the next big wave in electronics, according to various self-proclaimed oracles in the technology industry.
That’s why there’s all this recent hubbub about Google Glass, the Internet-connected glasses-mounted computer. It’s also why rumormongers won’t cease in discussing a possible Apple watch of some kind. And it’s why your neighbor won’t take off his Nike FuelBand or Jawbone Up or Fitbit, even though it makes him look like he just got discharged by the local hospital.
If you’ve ever seen or read a work of science fiction, it becomes rather clear as to why wearable computing technology is embraced with such zeal: aside from being more aesthetically appealing than today’s mostly cuboid electronic devices, it is a step closer to the convergence of natural and artificial embodied by the cyborg, the person made superhuman thanks to the biological integration of electromechanical elements.
Wearable technology: a vision for the future
Wearable technology: a vision for the future
Oliver Stokes reports that wearable technology is the big buzz area in consumer electronics today. Via rumours of Apple’s curved glass ‘smart watch’, fueled again by Apple CEO Tim Cook’s recent interview at D11 and the vast amount of blog coverage surrounding Google Glass, it’s certain that the age of ‘wearables’ is soon to be upon us.
Even with these exciting product concepts there are still many questions to be asked about what the future holds and how consumers will accept the ‘new normal’ for wearable technology. We’ve all adjusted to the role of the smart phone in our lives, the ‘always on’ feeds of information which are pushed to us from Twitter or Facebook. We’ve all seen the masses stood on train stations gazing through Gorilla Glass screens, revealing the reams of information available to us. ‘Wearables’, however, are set to completely re-programme how we currently see our relationship with information and technology.
Wearable and Cyber Computing Report 