Keep an Eye on Wearables

Intel announced that it's downscaling its wearable division after several failures including the Basis Peak watch. While this may seem like bad news, most notably for the teams working on these technologies at Intel, it's just another ripple in a market poised to take off across multiple sectors.

There are some very smart minds working in wearables right now and many of the usability and human factors issues killing off some nascent products are accelerating innovation. Fitness and health are obvious markets, but more intriguing is how wearables interact with the everyday objects we encounter in an urban environment.