Intel execs were showing off a sensor-laden shirt this week at the Code conference. The company won’t make the shirt and doesn’t yet make the sensors, but it makes the processors, and they want people to buy lots of both.
Mike Bell, Intel’s head of new devices, showed off a prototype of the sensor shirt that it expects to ship later this summer. At another session, CEO Brian Krzanich said the company would focus on sensors for the “eyes, ears, wrist, and torso.” He also acknowledged that his company was slow to recognize the market’s tectonic shift away from desktop computing toward mobile platforms.
Don’t forget, too, that Intel is pursuing its Edison and Galileo development platforms — and that it recently bought fitness tracker Basis Science.