“You’ve read about Silicon Valley ‘Glassholes’ who wear Google’s digital eyewear everywhere — including the shower,” Marcus Wohlsen reports for Wired. “You’ve seen the ad where creepy hipsters on skis try to impress a woman with their Samsung smartwatches. They suggest that we’ll all be using wearables, everywhere, for everything. But for many of us, our first encounter with wearable computers won’t be at home or on the slopes. It’ll be in the workplace.”
“That’s the word from J.P. Gownder, a business tech analyst with Forrester Research. As the wearable hype reaches a peak this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Gownder released a report arguing the workplace provides the most natural fit for wearable tech that reads our environment and enhances our senses,” Wohlsen reports. “We’ll soon see wearables, he says, on everyone from cable guys and cops to nurses and surgeons.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]