2014 CES and Wearables

Clearing out post-CES items. . . 

Via PCWorld, a nicely written recap of wearables at CES. 

The 5 critical lessons CES taught us about wearable tech

Jon Phillips @jonphillipssf Jan 9, 2014 5:00 AM 

LAS VEGAS—If you begin to see smartwatches dangling from tree branches, and activity-tracking wrist bands collecting in rain gutters, then you can thank the Consumer Electronics Show for belching out something akin to a pyroclastic flow of wearable tech over half the earth's surface.

Every CES needs a pre-packaged narrative, and this year the hardware industry decided wearable tech should dominate the script. Wearables are novel. They're visual. And manufacturers are juicing the category with R&D and capital, so we need to scrutinize the hell out of wearables, and figure out exactly how and where they fit into our lives. The Neptune Pine smartwatch is large and in charge, and doesn't care who knows. (Jon Phillips)

I'm leaving CES with five key takeaways. Your data analysis may vary, so aim your contrarian tweets in the direction of @jonphillipssf. Together we can stay ahead of the curve before the wearables ash cloud covers us completely.

See link above for full story. 

The five take-aways are 

• Big tech -- e.g., Intel -- is moving aggressively into this market, in addition to little tech as one would expect
• There are lots of activity trackers out there 
• Smartwatch vendors don't get fashion 
• Smartglasses are still just an idea 
• Wearables are nonetheless an exciting market 

Update on Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 03:26AM by williamgarrity

Bingo -- this is exactly why my Pebble is so successful for me. In TechHive: