Wearables – What does the future hold?

Wearable devices represent the product category currently carrying the consumer electronics industry’s burden of being the ‘next big thing’. Driven by advances in processing and communications chipsets developed in the pursuit of ever-cheaper smartphones, wearables are exhibiting the potential for diversity in shape, colour and function that has been banished from the smartphone world. But are hardware vendors right to bet on smart wearables as a means of supporting margins in the ever-competitive consumer electronics world? There is no shortage of forecast … Read more…