Salon.com > wearable computing http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 20:11:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Apple thinks your naked wrist needs an iWatch http://www.salon.com/2013/02/15/apple_thinks_your_naked_wrist_needs_an_iwatch/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/15/apple_thinks_your_naked_wrist_needs_an_iwatch/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13201847 Do I want an iWatch? Do you? And if I do decide to adorn my wrist with an Apple computer, should I go full hog and accessorize it with a pair of Google glasses that grant me online access with just a twitch of my eyeballs?

Or is that just asking for a world of cross-platform communication headaches? What if my glasses don't like my watch? It could get ugly.

How cyborg are we willing to go? The question becomes more relevant by the day. Google glasses are not yet commercially available, but co-founder Sergey Brin has been spotted wearing a prototype. More to the point: Fresh reports from The New York Times and Bloomberg suggest that Apple is now devoting significant resources to an iWatch product. And when Apple debuts new product lines, the earth itself shudders.

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