The emerging trend of embedded and wearable digital media devices and technology and it's impact on the user

1. Wearables
Digital Mobile
Technology for the
Next Generation
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2. Bio-sensitive,
personalized,
friction-free...
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3. The emerging ‘wearables’ market.
Connected,
smart-enabled,
networked...
... and looking to replace your
smartphone.
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Way beyond fiction..

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Way beyond fashion..
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Much
more
than a
fad..
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7. Wearables are
trending smarter,
smaller, and more
popular than ever.
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8. Applications in Healthcare and
Biometrics
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“Quantified selfers” with an
affinity for this kind of
feedback; just by looking at
the numbers, they are
motivated to be more
active.”
“The Monitored Man” by Albert Sun, NewYork Times
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9. Applications for Military and
Security
Land Warrior
System: Heads-Up
Display , Real-time
GPS Tracking,
mobile
communication,
checkpoints,
objectives, data, full
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10. Applications for Police and Law
Enforcement
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“February 2012, public complaints against police
officers plunged 88% compared with the previous 12
months. Officers' use of force fell by 60%.”
Police Officers in Rialto
California wore lapel video
cameras as a pilot project.
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11. “The Google Glass Feature No One Is Talking
About” Mark Hurst, Creative Good
“Google Glass will live
or die solely on the
experience it creates
for people.”
“Today, finally, that future has
arrived... the ability to record
your life, store it, and share it –
all with a simple voice
command.”
Anywhere you go in public – any store, any
sidewalk, any bus or subway – you’re liable to be
recorded: audio and video... stored permanently,
and shared to the world.

12. Wearables... where are the early
adopters?
Athletics
Medicine
Tech journalists

13. Why not everyone?
Too Expensive
No meaningful
benefit
People fear Change

14. Yet, every device has it limitations...
Must interface with
existing hardware
only input are voice
(active) or biometrics
(passive)
Privacy
Still has to prove better than existing
technology or must create a new
niche

15. Will they replace
Smartphones?
(wearables)
So...

16. rock and chisel 5000 years
paper 2000 years
books 500 years
telephone 150 years
computer 50 years
smartphone 5 years
wearables ?
... and it reigned SUPREME
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17. Most likely.
But if they
don’t,
something
else will.
So is the
march of
smaller,
better,
faster,
shinier,
MORE.

18. The speed of technological change is itself changing and
accelerating.
Our challenges
today are
tomorrow’s
discoveries.
We’ll wonder how
we ever got along
without it.
... and our
grandchildren
will teach us
how to use it.

19. Wearables
will succeed in our digitally-saturated
culture when:
they serve a vital function or purpose in our lives;
they weave seamlessly into aesthetic lifestyle;
must be better than any other device at its job;
they come with an array of apps to allow a customizable user
experience;
they are fully networked into mobile communication hubs.

20. If wearables can fulfill those criteria, then I’m in.

21. Sources
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-
police-body-cameras-cuts-violence-complaints-rialto
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/the-monitored-man/?
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