Wearable Tech and the Internet of Things (Iot)

Identity, control, safety – these are the three areas where wearable technology will evolve in its next generation, according to Sonny VU, CEO of wearables company Misfit. “Right now, in a current world of wearables, we’re still very much in a 1.0 world”, he says.”If you think about it, the use cases for wearables right …

The company is only providing the basic technology, not finished products, so it'll be a while before you see this smart cloth in something you can buy.  

Google's Android Wear demos look slick, but it remains to be seen if the first wave of devices delivers on those promises.

Smartwatches shift existing technology to a new location – from the pocket to the wrist. More exciting are second-skin devices such as embeddables, ingestibles and hearables. These will include flexible technologies that blend into our skin; devices that are controlled by eye-motion sensors; and earbuds that measure and respond to our heart rate. All are part of the ongoing journey to create technology that is so deeply interwoven with our lives that it becomes almost invisible. The benefits of this transition will be better usability and genuinely groundbreaking technology that goes beyond incremental developments.

Salesforce has jumped into recent investments in wearable startups and an initiative to get developers to build applications that connect devices worn on the face, wrist and body with Salesforce’s technology.  Salesforce’s interest in wearables illustrates that in addition to being a dominant provider of business applications, the company is also a major computing platform that other developers use to access customers or actually run their own businesses, Irvine said. Wearables are just one emerging technology that will get attention at Dreamforce, and are part of Salesforce’s larger goal of capitalizing on the so-called Internet of Things, which refers to the increasing number of Internet connected devices that are spewing out unprecedented quantities of data that promise countless insights to come. - To get out front on the wearable trend, Salesforce in June launched Salesforce Wear to entice developers to create more enterprise applications for wearable devices, with support for devices from Samsung Electronics Co., Google and Pebble, among others.

..."in a not-very-well-concealed attempt to steal away  publicity from Samsung's Gear product line , Google just announced that next week it's selling a limited number of its "Glass" devices to the US public. Previously, Glass was only available to a select group of volunteers called "explorers". -  Told you the Silicon Wars were on and the hunt is on to crack the code of wearable tech continues -  Gotta love it