Wearable technology will be everywhere throughout the enormous CES showroom floor, according to Geoff Blaber, vice president of research at CCS Insight.
"This year it will be about super low cost wearables of every kind," said Blaber.
In 2013, Google Glass, Nike FitBit health tracking bracelets and other wearable technologies became popular among technology enthusiasts. Earlier in the year, wearable technology designers from Nike and Oakley joined Intel to help the company create low power computing technologies for the burgeoning wearable devices market, something that Juniper Research values will be worth more than $1.5 billion by 2014, up from just $800 million in 2013. BI Intelligence expects to see annual wearable device shipments to exceed 100 million units in 2014 and growing to 300 million units by 2018.
"Long term, wearable computers are definitely going to be a component among the things that we have because they will augment our life," said Jon Peddie, president, Jon Peddie Research. "It will help us get through the world, navigate commerce, airports and social situations."
So what do you think? Are wearables this year's hottest products or is the market still undecided? Do you use a wearable device? - IT Peer Network Administrator