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Wearables may not be as popular as they seem

04/04/201404/01/2014 Stephanie Beck

Hundreds of wearable technology products are being resold by consumers at online marketplaces. Although 2014 is supposed to be the year of wearables, as smartwatches and other products will be flooding the marketplace and consumers will supposedly be purchasing them as quickly as they can. However, a quick check on eBay shows that barely used products are already being resold. While one could assume that consumers have grabbed up the wearables as quickly as they could in the hopes of reselling them for a bit of quick money, this is…

Wearable technology perceptions are holding it back

03/21/201403/19/2014 Sam Lambert

Intel says that companies aren’t yet concentrating on what people actually want from these devices. According to Steve Brown, chief evangelist and futurist at Intel, until the industry works to design their wearable technology in a way that will appeal to the perceptions of consumers, that sector simply will not succeed. This statement was made in a speech that Brown gave in London at a tech event. Brown spoke at the Wearable Technology Show in London with a keynote address in which he instructed the delegates in the audience to…

Smartwatches are huge: got yours yet?

03/06/201403/04/2014 Julie Campbell

Consumers are all over wearable technology devices, which also include smart jewelry. As a tremendous number of different forms of wearable technology flood their way into the mobile devices scene, smartwatches and smart jewelry are becoming an enormous hit with consumers. In fact, while some are deciding if wearable technology is the next big tech category, others are asking about fashion. Until now, smartwatches and other mobile devices within the wearable technology category have been seen as rather ugly and clunky, so they have been considered only from the tech…

Smartwatches are primarily based on Android

02/19/201402/19/2014 Jennifer Goula

The operating system has managed to grab an early dominance of the wearable technology market. Strategy Analytics has now released the results of its recent research which has shown that in terms of the global shipments of smartwatches that occurred throughout 2013, it was easily Android that took the dominant position for operating systems. In that year, there were a record almost 2 million units of this wearable technology that were shipped. Among those mobile devices, Android took hold of a massive 61 percent share of their operating systems. This…