Smart wearable technologies have the potential to change the way we look at the world, but will they have a positive effect on consumers’ lives or simply increase alienation, Dhrubo Paul asks.
Wearable devices such as Google Glass, Pebble smart watches and brainwave-reading headbands are about to transform our lives. Over the next year, tech togs of every variety will hit the market. They will allow us to control machines at a flick of the wrist, check our heartbeat and other bodily functions – thus revolutionising health and fitness – and even command computers simply by thinking.
This wearable technology will be attached to parts of our bodies and promises to help us interact wi