A couple of Indian entrepreneurs are about to build shoe insoles that use haptic feedback to direct you to your destination. These insoles -- Lechal, from Krispian Lawrence and Anirudh Sharma -- will vibrate on the appropriate side of the shoe when it's time to change direction. Input your destination into your smartphone and the phone plots your route. The phone's GPS … [Read more...]
Survey: Women don’t wear watches, own too many shoes
Comes now an upscale shopping-mall survey sponsored by the BlogHer blog network. Along with a bunch of stuff that we don't care about (professionally, that is) here, there are a couple of salient points for the Wearables crowd: More than 40 percent of women said they would wear a fitness tracker. Nearly three-quarters of women rely on their cell phones to tell time; no … [Read more...]