Christian Heilmann

On wearables and weariness

Monday, August 4th, 2014 at 5:57 pm

I just published my first post on Medium about wearable technology and the disappointment of its current state of affairs partly because I wanted to vent and to try it out as a publishing platform.

Scotty talking to the computer

So head over there to read about my thoughts – TL;DR: I love the idea of wearables but the current Google watch is just disappointing, both from a hardware perspective and as a feature. All you get is notifications and the concept of voice input is not as useful as it is sold to us.

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