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Wearables in the workplace. A genuinely transformative opportunity?

This blog has already explored the future of wearables and outlined directions in which they are likely to form an integral part of the way we interact with others and with our surroundings. One of the key factors touched upon was the fact that features and functionality alone don’t guarantee the success of wearables devices. Like clothing, jewellery and other fashion accessories, they have to fulfil the wearer’s emotional needs such as self-concept, acceptance by others, reassurance, and status. Arguably, this is already true … Read more…

Intel – From Edison launch to Google Glass

Last week, I was introduced in person to Intel’s latest creation aimed at the maker movement – the low-power, small-format Edison chip. In a hands-on event in Shoreditch, London organised by Intel, I got to explore capabilities of the tiny computer, not much bigger than an SD memory card. It is clearly a very capable device, providing x86 compatibility to a wide range of products, and as such provides an alternative to Arduino and Raspberry Pi products. However this is not … Read more…

Wearables – What does the future hold?

Wearable devices represent the product category currently carrying the consumer electronics industry’s burden of being the ‘next big thing’. Driven by advances in processing and communications chipsets developed in the pursuit of ever-cheaper smartphones, wearables are exhibiting the potential for diversity in shape, colour and function that has been banished from the smartphone world. But are hardware vendors right to bet on smart wearables as a means of supporting margins in the ever-competitive consumer electronics world? There is no shortage of forecast … Read more…