One of our favorite writers, Sharon Fisher, had an interesting piece on TechTarget over the weekend about how wearable tech could play havoc with legal discovery in court cases. Everything seen by a Google Glass, for instance, or data gathered by a Fitbit could be subject to legal discovery. The whole point behind e-discovery is to put all the corporate records in one place, … [Read more...]
Motley Fool on CES Wearables
If you can dig through the touts and ads and other junk, there are sometimes some good insights to be had on the Motley Fool personal finance site. We just caught up with a video of a couple of Fool analysts talking about wearables, and Eric Bleeker pretty much nails it in under two minutes: [youtube https://youtu.be/htIyEmVKY64] Here's the button: I feel like … [Read more...]
Six Examples of Wearable Tech That Women Don’t Really Want
BlogHer has a nicely snarky roundup of six examples of wearable products that are a little unclear about the concept of women. We've covered most of these one time or another, but the self-defense hair clip is new to us. And it's nice to have these examples gathered in one post. … [Read more...]
NYTimes: Batteries are Key to Mobile Tech
It's not news to anyone with an iPhone and a 3pm date with an outlet that batteries are going to have to get a whole lot better before wearable tech has a hope of widespread adoption. The NYTimes digs into the subject today and namechecks a few of the ongoing power experiments: solar power, induction charging, and even harvesting radio signals. Most of the good stuff -- the … [Read more...]
Plastic Logic White Paper: Flexibles Will Be the Killer Tech
The British flexible electronics company Plastic Logic has issued a wonderfully cold-eyed white paper about the wearables market. Largely devoid of cheerleading, the paper sees the most growth in the fitness and healthcare businesses. Smart watches are the start, they say, but are useful mostly as thought experiments. The real breakthroughs will be in flexible displays … [Read more...]
Deloitte Predicts $3 Billion Wearables Sales This Year
Deloitte is out with its near-term tech predictions, and they're pretty enthusiastic about wearable tech. Their market experts say there will be $3 billion spent on 10 million units of wearable tech this year. They break it out like this: 4 million smart glasses as at average price of $500, mostly in consumer sales. 4 million fitness bands at $140, although they will not … [Read more...]
Interview with Wearable Experiment’s Billie Whitehouse
We've written a little before about Billie Whitehouse and the Wearable Experiments Navigate Jacket, but International Digital Times has quite a good interview with Whitehouse that's worth reading. The great quote: "It's the Burberry guided tour of New York, or the Luis Vuitton tour of New York, or maybe the Diesel tour of Milan." Whitehouse said. Concerning the jackets … [Read more...]
Japanese Smart Bra Measures “True Love,” Unlocks When It Finds It
OK, we all know that the Japanese market is a little ... different. Here's another example. The publication Tweaktown reports on a bra that will only unfasten when the wearer's heart rate indicates "true love." (Apparently, there's a problem in Japan with people unfastening women's bras on the sly.) The smartphone app that syncs with the sensor can supposedly differentiate … [Read more...]
What Good Are Wearables? Here Are 7 Reasons to Use Them at Work
Forrester VP J.P. Gownder has a good, thoughtful piece in InformationWeek on why a business might adopt wearable technology. Hint: It's not about fashion, it's about productivity -- and some sectors will glom on faster than others. Well worth reading and thinking about. … [Read more...]
Birds and the Bees and the Flowers and the Trees…
Entrepreneur magazine has a story about using wearable tech to study the movement of bees. Scientists in Australia, studying Colony Collapse Disorder, are apparently attaching teeny-tiny RFID tags to the backs of bees and using a kind of EZPass technology to see where they go. (We've got a friend who spent a few years tagging penguins in Antarctica to track migration and … [Read more...]