wearable technology is going to bring
about a great change where everyone is
more connected with each other we know
about the problems of the world faster
than ever before
communication is going to jump by leaps
and bounds in terms of speed and
convenience fundamentally what we are is
we're social animals the most important
things to us are interactions with other
people the presence we have with other
people and so when you have a wearable
the wearable is in the middle of that
and it had better support that
interaction rather than get in the way
of it
we have been adorning our bodies since
the start of time whether it was furs
that we used to help us go to northern
climes and hunt animals swords shields
armor pocket watches wristwatches
eyeglasses all of these things have been
there to augment our capabilities and
extend our reach and help us your life
what's new is now they're becoming smart
and becoming connected
we are increasingly reliant on our
digital devices for nearly every aspect
of our lives the only natural future for
this is that these digital devices
become almost a part of us
and so we try to design devices that can
be used while you're talking to people
while you're walking shopping doing
other things we came up actually with
the idea of The Sixth Sense device which
looks at whatever is in front of the
user and we decided to use a projector
to them project information relevant to
whatever is in the focus of the user I
think we have to find ways to really
just simplify our interactions with
technology so that we can just be people
and interact the way people like to
interact I think the potential for
wearables is I would keep observing your
human to human interactions the body cop
is a is a project I've developed it's a
portable technology wearable technology
right it's something they can carry with
you and what it does is it allows you to
connect with other people socially
whenever you clink cups together talking
to somebody in person super amazing it's
kind of one of the best things of event
to drive into speech so you could do
that so might as well keep you invented
technology to do that as well
there's really a separate language that
humans have for talking to each other
it's not just the words it's the how you
say it
so you actually build little devices
that look at your body language how you
move with somewhere ometer they look at
your tone of voice they look at who do
you talk to where it's not crazy but the
idea of you know building a prosthesis
for our social interaction could really
lead to a lot better world when I
approach wearable technology the obvious
thing is journalism I am a reporter
mobile journalists I cover breaking news
around the world through mobile
technology and wearable technology being
able to communicate as fast and
efficiently as possible is really key
and as breaking news situations we've
got a lot of problems politically you
know everyone's got a different opinion
and wants something else for the world
but until we can get you know an
accurate set of data as to what is
causing the problems we can't really fix
them
so with more integrated wearable
technology if everyone is taking part in
relaying what they're experiencing we
can take these datasets and create a
clear picture that we can understand
the time has come to really focus on
human-computer interaction make sure
that it is less people that have to
adapt to the technology but that
technology becomes more adaptive to
people and our ways of life this is one
of the most exciting times to be alive
wearables are the next frontier and
what's possible with computing and the
challenge here is to bring that into
people's lives in a way that is
meaningful and makes their lives better
and that's something that we can only do
together