Millions of people stroll through life staring into a mobile device, absorbed by their screens. Technology will solve this problem by creating wearable computers. The idea of someone looking at a screen tapping away with their thumbs may soon be a thing of the paste and computers become more portable - and wearable. Yes, wearable.
Nick Bilton of the New York Times reports that Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers. Their main goal: to sell more smartphones. (In Google’s case, more smartphones sold means more advertising viewed.) In Google’s secret Google X labs, researchers are working on peripherals that — when attached to your clothing or body — would communicate information back to an Android smartphone.
The U.S. military has been studying ways to embed radio transmitters in clothing that would allow soldiers to keep in touch with each other by talking to their clothing. Carbon fibers woven into the shirt or outer wear would pick up wireless signals.
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