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2016 Year in Preview: The Future of Wearable Tech

spannerspencer
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29 Dec 2015

Wearable Techimage

You gave us your predictions for the new platforms and technologies that are likely to dominate in 2016 back during the Community Awards, and over the last few days we've been discussing there those predictions might take us.


Today we're looking at wearable technology.


This is an area of electronics that I feel is very much akin to the Internet of Things. It's been around a little while, and there's been a couple of ideas that really sparked some interest and promised exciting things. And yet, it's still struggling to really find that essential foothold that makes wearable tech into a mainstream technology.


Where-able Tech?

Where exactly do you see the next step for wearable tech? Will the smartwatch finally arrive, or is there a better option on the horizon that'll combine our beloved tech with our portable selves?


Or maybe you can see what's missing from this arena, and can see the gaps that the tech companies and makers are primed to fill, which will finally bring wearable technology home to roost.


Tell us all about the future of Wearable Tech below (and what you'd like to see, as much as what we will see), and we'll reconvene this time next year to see how close we got to the mark.

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  • johnbeetem
    johnbeetem over 9 years ago +2
    Hard to beat Toshiro Mifune when it comes to wearable technology
  • DAB
    DAB over 9 years ago +2
    I would have gone with gadget man. I think a Ninja was probably the best with wearable technology. Just about everything they carried could kill someone. DAB
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 9 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +2
    Yojimbo (and Sanjuro, actually) is one of my all time favourite films of all time! And did you see that he just got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Toshiro Mifune to get a star on Hollywood Walk…
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 9 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Yojimbo (and Sanjuro, actually) is one of my all time favourite films of all time! And did you see that he just got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

     

    Toshiro Mifune to get a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame • Akira Kurosawa News

     

    He apparently turned down the role of Obi Wan Kenobi for A New Hope, too. He'd have made an awesome Jedi!

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    DAB over 9 years ago

    I would have gone with gadget man.

     

    I think a Ninja was probably the best with wearable technology.  Just about everything they carried could kill someone.

     

    DAB

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    johnbeetem over 9 years ago

    Hard to beat Toshiro Mifune when it comes to wearable technology image

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