I’ve written and talked about “wearable computers” for more than a decade now, and they are continuing to emerge, although not quite the way I expected. What is happening is that while the original “grey brick” cellphone has morphed into the miniscule smartphone, it is, in fact, a computer that you carry on your person most of your waking hours (if you carry one at all). And this year is going to see this trend extended, with new functionality, including more video capacity, more Internet capacity, impromptu social networks emerging, plus the ability to use a smartphone instead of a laptop for things like running PowerPoint slide presentations. (more…)

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