This post originally appeared on Wearable World News, found here. Wearables are proliferating. With hundreds of different types available and more popping up everyday, we’re seeing the rapid saturation of an immature market. Those wearables that prove the most value to the most people will emerge as industry leaders, leaving behind a graveyard of one-off…
This article was originally posted on Wearable World News, and can be found here. ——- We typically think of wearables as consumer technology. Fitbit, Google Glass, Basis, and the long tail of connected fitness gear, watches, and clothing are all consumer facing. Yet, despite the rapid proliferation of wearable technologies, penetration is still only about…
This post was originally posted at Wearable World News and can be found here. — So often we think of wearables as consumer devices, but in many ways the enterprise is actually defining the utility of this technology at scale. Today we’re seeing businesses adopt wearable technologies to drive highly context-specific communications, intelligence, and efficiency…
This post was originally posted on Wearable World News and can be found here. It seems like every day we’re hearing about new ways to strap sensors and chips to our bodies. As sensors and chips become smaller and cheaper, we’ll continue to see more and more types of wearables emerge. Let’s round up six…
This post was originally posted on Wearable World News and can be found here. Revolutionary or Evolutionary: Will wearables unveil the next level of mobile computing? Or will they ride the coattails of a few niche-specific smartphone apps and eventually fizzle as a device category? The answer to this lies in the market’s response to…
Wearables are only one branch of the evolution of mobile computing. In a recent survey by Business Insider, executives cite Wearables as the number one ranked “next big thing in Mobile”—but are they really? The answer to this requires us to re-consider the notion of mobile altogether. In the a connected life, the entire offline world becomes ‘mobile.’…
There is a fundamental difference between the hardware developers’ mentality vs. the software developers’ mentality. This is nothing new as a technology trend, but it plays an important role in unlocking the potential of the Internet of Things in that it will impact the development of IoT components. So what is this difference? For hardware developers,…
