Thanks to my friend Sean Evanko for sharing this with me…
Minority Report is happening, people. Of course, it had to be born at MIT’s Media Lab. Watch this video:
Ask Manny Hernandez
A Venezuelan in Berkeley blogging about social media, nonprofits, diabetes and health 2.0.
As interesting as these demos and movies make this seem, to me there are 2 major hurdles to “wearable tech” that have kept it squarely in the company of the “personal jet car” in terms of tech we’ll likely never see. 1) It offers no real productivity or usability boost. I mean, really, what is the advantage to standing bolt upright on your feet staring at a wall and manipulating things with wide sweeping gestures of your hand? Compared to sitting comfortably at a desk or on your couch and dragging around a mouse or finger on a mousepad, it kinda seems like a whole lotta pointless work. 2) It makes you look like a Borg. Granted, for some of us, Locutus is as cool as it comes, but for the vast majority of the consumer market, it just looks stupid. Embed a digital camera invisibly into the frame of normal looking sunglasses, then maybe you have something, but as long as wearable tech means you are obviously “wearing your tech” then it ain’t gonna fly any more than the personal jet car.