> I don't believe wearable computing will ever really catch on, but I'm old fustian.)
I used to think the same, but it seems to me that phones are the first step. A huge number of people have a mini computer on their persons all day. It's only a matter of time before it becomes even more integrated.
Will be interesting to see, but I doubt the current form factors will win. Smart watches seem so... not it.
And also, with wearables it's not so much bringing a device closer, but a personal network of devices. The phone may still have it's place as the larges person-network computing device, but peripherals with their own small compute power and additional I/O get added to the network. Smart watches (biometric inputs, small always ready screen output), glasses (AR overlay output, line-of-sight and image recognition input), etc.
I used to think the same, but it seems to me that phones are the first step. A huge number of people have a mini computer on their persons all day. It's only a matter of time before it becomes even more integrated.
Will be interesting to see, but I doubt the current form factors will win. Smart watches seem so... not it.