On the catwalk wearing Google Glass, photo via Flickr
...“There’s a reason we all make fun of someone wearing a Bluetooth or a BlackBerry holster,” Daniella Yacobovsky, cofounder of the online jewelry retailer BaubleBar told The New York Times. “Is it useful? Of course it is. Do I look like a tool? Yeah. I’m not going to wear it.”...Fashion and technology have historically mixed as well as oil and water, but now the looming wearable tech craze is forcing a convergence of the two industries. No matter how cutting-edge or convenient these new smart accessories are, if we’re expected to adorn ourselves with them they damn well better look good too.
The major tech companies—Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, even Dell—are competing to come out at the top of the emerging market, which some analysts predict will be a $10 billion business in the next three years. To win this one, they’re going to have to venture outside their comfort zone and into the illusive world of style....MORE
