Clever Clothing
A Niche Form of Fitness Tracking Shows Potential Last year, several start-up companies including AiQ, Athos, Clothing+, Hexoskin, Mbody and OMsignal showcased their smart clothing products and concepts. The devices…
Spy Kids
More Children’s Wearables, More Questions CCS Insight has written about child-tracking wearables before, but several new products shown at CES 2015 and on crowd-funding sites serve as a reminder that…
Doubling Down on Doubt
Is Project Ara Coming Together? In June 2014, we stated our doubts about Google’s ambitious modular phone concept, Project Ara (see Daily Insight: Five Easy Pieces). The goal of an…
More Hero Products
Apple Might Join the Expanding Action Camera Market Even before stories surfaced yesterday about Apple’s new action camera patent, the indications were clear: competition in the market for these tough…
Beauty and the Beast
Key Wearables Trend: Non-Conspicuous Consumption It’s inevitable. In fact, almost obligatory. Every industry goes through its ugly phase. Sometimes products are made simply because they can be, other times true…
Head Rush
Head-Worn Devices Look Hot for the New Year Here’s something for safety out of Sweden. Volvo, together with Ericsson and a sports gear company called POC, introduced a prototype connected…
The Crowdovation Era Is Here
Ideas and Decisions Come from the Masses Xiaomi says it’s looking for ideas — not just feedback about quality or colours but real proposals about future product lines and features….
On the Clock
Wearables Are Getting in the Money The introduction of Apple Pay in early September highlighted the potential role of wearables in mobile finance. The ability to use a smartwatch for…
Know Sweat
Sweat Sensors Could Be the Next Hot Thing Accelerometers, barometers, gyrometers, thermometers, heart-rate monitors. Cameras, mikes and lights. GPS, GSR, UV, EEG, 3G. Brainwaves, stress levels, fingerprints, moods and attitudes….
Wearables Must Be Fashionable or Invisible to Succeed
Key Messages from Wearables Conferences in London My colleague Ben Wood and I attended two wearables events in London last week. Ben chaired the Mobile News Wearable Tech — Hope…