{"id":18816,"date":"2015-11-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3565202"},"modified":"2015-11-21T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T11:00:00","slug":"wearable-tech-here-to-stay-thingsexpo-iot-m2m-wearables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wearable-tech-here-to-stay-thingsexpo-iot-m2m-wearables\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Tech: Here to Stay? | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M #Wearables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable technology has come a long way since the calculator watch. In the past whenever I thought of the term \u201cwearable technology\u201d the first things I would like of were always calculator watches and pedometers, but boy have things changed! Even if you\u2019re a skeptic, this blogger thinks that pretty much everyone will be using some type of wearable tech by 2020.<br \/>\nIt seems like wearable technology is everywhere. Whether it is Google Glass, or the Samsung Galaxy Gear, there seems to be nothing that you can&#8217;t tech out.  There is Colour Change Couture, fabric that changes color when wet, The Programmable T-shirt, which, when combined with the smartphone app, allows the wearer to display tweets, Facebook statuses, and pictures. Celebs are even getting on the wearable tech bandwagon; Nicole Scherzinger wore a dress made of silk, Swarovski crystals, and 2,000 LED lights that displayed tweets in real time when the hashtag #tweetthedress was used.  For more on the future of fashion, check out this slideshow (you really should, there&#8217;s some pretty cool stuff in there).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3565202\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable technology has come a long way since the calculator watch. In the past whenever I thought of the term &ldquo;wearable technology&rdquo; the first things I would like of were always calculator watches and pedometers, but boy have things changed! Even if you&rsquo;re a skeptic, this blogger thinks that pretty much everyone will be using some type of wearable tech by 2020.<br \/>\nIt seems like wearable technology is everywhere. Whether it is Google Glass, or the Samsung Galaxy Gear, there seems to be nothing that you can&#8217;t tech out.  There is Colour Change Couture, fabric that changes color when wet, The Programmable T-shirt, which, when combined with the smartphone app, allows the wearer to display tweets, Facebook statuses, and pictures. Celebs are even getting on the wearable tech bandwagon; Nicole Scherzinger wore a dress made of silk, Swarovski crystals, and 2,000 LED lights that displayed tweets in real time when the hashtag #tweetthedress was used.  For more on the future of fashion, check out this slideshow (you really should, there&#8217;s some pretty cool stuff in there).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3565202\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18817,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816\/revisions\/18817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}