GRU Professor: 2014 is Year of Wearable Devices
Monday, January 6th, 2014
Watch out smartphones and tablets, 2014 is going to be the year of wearable devices.
Dr. Paul York, a computer and information sciences professor at Georgia Regents University’s Hull College of Business, predicts a surge in sales in this year for smart watches and Google Glass, lensless frames equipped with a processor and transparent projection screen above the right eye. The eyewear responds to vocal commands and lets users take and share video and listen to music.
“I think this will be the year we look back and say this was the beginning of a whole new computing paradigm,” said York, who built a social media simulator for his doctoral study, which analyzed how the Web influences gas usage.
York believes the technology will lead to social media enthusiasts developing new ways to capture and share information from a first-person point of view.
