According to New York Times, Apple researchers are busy in developing the prototypes of such products which you can wear. Product which you can wear on your wrist, for instance, and they may send information back to iPhone. These products will also be compatible with other Apple devices such as iPad and iPod. According to the article, Google is also working on similar products for Android smartphones.
Both Apple and Google are working on these projects secretly. They haven’t issued any official acknowledgement about it. Yet, according to different ‘inside’ sources, they have even produced some prototypes and are testing them.
As far as Apple’s wearable computers are concerned, Apple will also most probably use Siri on them. The idea is to let you wear a product, for instance on your wrist, and then communicate to it through your voice. It may transmit the instructions back to iPhone or iPad etc. Imagine telling your iPhone, through a wrist-watch, that it needs to start a download.
These products will not be stand-alone devices in themselves. Rather, they will contribute to the better functionality of smartphones and a much better user experience. They will of course make data transmission and getting things done through smartphone like a breeze.
The future of such pace of computer technology, MIT researchers argue, is that one day people will wear glasses and lenses with pre-fed data on them and will watch things on these very screens. This will significantly alter how we perceive things and will give people greater freedom to tweak things such as how their dress looks to others’ ‘lens’ etc. Although this seem far-fetched but it is all very possible in the realm of computers.
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Thetechjournal.com are the most horrible Apple shills imaginable… Sony and others already sell that.
And that’s a Sony device you’re showing with a stupid apple logo photoshopped on it.
So you blabber on about Crapple and Google and don’t even give one word of mention to Sony, who have been inventing and designing cool stuff long before Jobs got back to Crapple to start these annoying semi-religious fanboi trends, turning everybody into a horde of mindless sheep. An Orwellian nightmare…
Please quote a single example of a ‘wearable computer’ vendor who’s selling watches with cloud storage support, ability to control devices such as smartphone etc. The gist of the article, as I am sure you missed in the eagerness to vent yet again, was that this will definitely be a step forward for the ecosystems Apple and Google have built/are building. That much is quite clear from what the author has stated. Pray, do tell me where is an ecosystem which one handles with already-available Sony watches? Oh wait, Sony doesn’t even have a tech ecosystem!
Here’s a sincere advice: it doesn’t make you a follower of Noam Chomsky, or the likes, to lambaste popular (supposedly evil) corporations on tech websites 😉