Wearable computers next Christmas?

Donna Cusano

It may be a bit of a stretch (so to speak), but it seems the ideas of wearing sensors which feed into smartphones, and smartphones which are even more wearable, are getting a lot closer. A curved glass iPod wristlet is effectively a wearable computer. Also mentioned in this New York Times tech blog article are smart contact lenses (Ed. Donna’s gimlety take on that possibility here), shirts with heads-up displays (beyond the ‘smart shirt’). Disruptions: Wearing Your Computer on Your Sleeve