Upon the forthcoming releases of wearable tech solutions such as the soon-to-be- ubiquitous Google Glass as well the impending invasions of smartwatches from the likes of Samsung, Qualcomm and Pebble, I assumed it would be a good time to unload my general thoughts and opinions regarding these encumbrances of the tech world.
Smartwatch is a word that has become so ingrained in the vocabularies of PR men and bloggers a-like that it has earned the prestigious mantra of being not just two words ,but one, and yes that's definitely a victory in the world of tech - honest.
But at this point it's probably worth looking at other products that share the 'smart' prefix. There's smartphone,smartTV, smarthouse and Microsoft's SmartGlass but then there's also smartfridge, smart car, smartarse and why not smartbin, smartTable and well.. smarties. The point is you can call something smart all you like but that doesn't make it so. Thomas Edison once said 'The value of an idea lies in the using of it'. And that's where the problem lies. Aside from having a crazy cool,high resolution clock face at the end of your arm, there's little use for a product with limited capibilities such as this. The fact of the matter is that the use of a smartwatch is about as futile and pointless as the length of time it took me to look for a suitably intelligent quote and that was way too long, trust me.
p.s Frivolity is a nice word isn't it..
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