Even companies that few would consider high-tech were eager to plant a flag in wearable computing.
It has taken 50 years for wearable computing to be ready for the mass market.
Social networking app Path has found its way onto the wearable computing bandwagon as well.
Darfour envisions wearable computing as a distributed facility that picks up signals from gesture and body movement.
Strides in design, battery technology, computing and connectivity are ushering in a new era of wearable computing.
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"One area of wearable computing that is seeing a number of advances is in the medical field, " said Randall.
Wearable computing is the study or practice of inventing, designing, building, or using miniature body-borne computational and sensory devices.
If we end up with wearable computing and high-definition Google Glasses, this may not be such a far-fetched concept.
Wearable computing, which has caused a few stirs over the past few months, is still about two to five years off.
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He is in charge of the pilot program, working with companies that have come to the company requesting a wearable computing solution.
Wearable computing also has a natural home in the world of gaming.
On the face of it Glass heralds the beginnings of wearable computing.
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Despite the promise of wearable computing, attendees also acknowledged that there was a very large gulf between the current technology and mass adoption.
Google Glass is the wearable computing device that provides Internet content to the field of vision, along with photos, videos and speech-to-text technology.
The wearable computing device market will grow to 485 million annual device shipments by 2018, according to a February report from ABI Research.
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With Valve already involving itself in wearable computing, it should make both notions easier to accomplish if it decides to bring either experiment to fans.
Apart from providing more jobs for security experts, wearable computing could create new industries and hybrid professions: data scientists who understand physiology and ethnography, for example.
Google's glasses reflect a growing interest in wearable computing, which many experts think could be the next big thing in personal technology after smartphones and tablets.
These are just five of the many interesting things to look out for in 2013, from the future of TV to the rise of wearable computing.
Starner is at the forefront of wearable computing, developing intelligent, wearable systems that can record and repay information, and has worn his own custom-made wearable computer since 1993.
Apple reaps the benefit of increased iDevice purchases and upgrades, and even takes a 30 percent cut of any paid app that a wearable computing manufacturer might sell.
It says assuming such problems can be resolved, about 485 million wearable computing devices might ship by 2018, providing a significant growth opportunity for Apple and the wider consumer electronics industry.
Apple has a tease from a Steve Jobs biographer that the late icon solved the TV remote nightmare, a known interest in wearable computing, but nothing tangible that anyone could dream on.
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Atheer, another wearable computing startup, debuted its software and prototype hardware, which amounted to a bulky pair of glasses that allowed the user to switch between maps, newspapers and games with gesture controls.
While EnableTalk is initially targeting the deaf community, the smart glove technology that they are developing has a much broader market, one that is embracing the very real prospect of wearable computing.
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He expects that Google Glass, iWatch, and their competitors are the next generation of wearable computing, and he plans on using his pair of Google Glass to help conceptualize how his app might work.
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While on vacation with his family, the Ontario-based "father of wearable computing" was sporting his EyeTap as he walked down the aforementioned French avenue, eventually entering a McDonald's to refuel after a busy day of sightseeing.
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What is the future of wearable computing?
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It could be that once we get past the gimmicky phase, wearable computing along the lines of motion wrist-bands or gloves, etc. coupled with 3D goggles could create the framework for a whole new era of amazing games.
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