The theme of the day in the contest Make It Wearable in San Francisco at the end of last year was "enough". When the parade of entrepreneurs took to the stage to offer his one more thing, this phrase from time to time pierced the brain of visitors. Enough. Drone, which is attached to your hand and takes off, to make self ?
Yet all of these manifestations were real stupidest future - at least real enough to compete for the prize of half a million dollars from the company - "godfather" of computing. Producer multisensor hours that track movements, heart rate and skin temperature, watching your activity and sleep; she presented a line tech jewelry; rumored to be the next generation of Google Glass will be done with the participation of Intel. What is the cause of all this? Intel thinks wearable electronics will be more popular than computers or phones. And she was right. You will have more than one wearing device - dozens of them. The only mistake - to believe that we are going to wear them all at once.
This opinion is born, not least because the portable device do something that our phones already know how long. What is the meaning of these bracelets and glasses, except tracking movements and external screens for our phones?
Well, wearable electronics promises to explode a series of devices with a single function. They will respond to specific situations rather than to perform several functions, like your phone. Take, for example, special clothing from Hexoskin, which controls the workout. Or medical devices such as Vital Connect, which monitor your vital signs and give physicians access to this data. Or headphones that not only will a hearing aid, but that will eliminate unnecessary background noise.
We will wear these things when we need them, and remove when not needed. Despite the success of devices such as Jawbone Up, or not even released Apple Watch, we will soon see useful devices on a case-other than Swiss knives from the world of technology.
One such immediate implementation of this idea in the competition Intel was ProGlove, a device designed for factory workers. Agree, if the gloves are used for direct observation of the location of the worker in the shop, it would be very terrible device. But no. Because in addition to tracking your movements, they can predict them.
"Suppose you need to replace a tire on a car, and you have a glove like ProGlove, which connects to your iPhone. She knows that you Audi, knows where she is, and tells you step by step, then that seat you stick a screwdriver, roughly speaking - says CEO Intel Brian Krzhanich. - You could learn to play the piano with a set of gloves, do whatever you want with tactile feedback. "
Now the glove cool. Glove, which trains your muscle memory, tracking your movements will be a completely new and different from anything we've experienced before. Compared with the Jawbone Up, Fitbit, Basis, even Moto 360 such wearable technology can really revolutionize our perception of this class technology.
In principle, the same problem can be called wearable electronics. Too much has already been examined and discarded as useless. But the emergence of new devices ensures the maintenance of public interest and a paradigm shift.