Originally published at: http://www.sitepoint.com/trends-wearable-device-development-ces-2015/
For the past couple of years, wearable technology has become one of the hottest fields in the technology space. In the absence of having a stable line of products to build on, many developers have been struggling to figure out where to focus their efforts. At the recent International CES there was a wealth of panels and events designed to help solve this pressing issue.
No Longer Just Glorified Pedometers
With the first generation of modern wearables, one of the biggest critiques of the technology was that it didn’t do anything useful. For example, logging information such as calories burned or steps walked is only useful if you can turn those insights into valuable information.
It might seem that hardware and the form it takes is most important in the wearable revolution. Be it jewellery, a plastic bracelet headphones or something else, all the devices do is gather information. Software still is the backbone of wearable devices because it differentiates devices from each other.
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