Future of wearables

Kwame lays down some frameworks for thinking about wearables. Deck was part of a talk @devlab in London, May 2014.

Transcript

1. Future of wearables kwamecorp thinking
2. how it all started
3. A solution looking for a problem (the blowing nipple story)
4. making sense of it all
5. Protocol (language) Mobile miniaturisation Sensors leaving the phone
6. space debris, experimentation, consolidation based on value to user
7. zooming in reality: 90% activity trackers
8. lifestyle person to person person to computer person becomes the computer (intimacy) (quantified self + cloud memory) change the world around me change my behaviour entertainment health& fitness
9. social intimate communication quantified self Our wearable framework activity trackers smart watches bond
10. BOND Staying in touch Limited body real estate. Don’t compete with the phone. Make it jewellery. Make it versatile.
11. ! notify authenticate record control cheap more expensive
12. first big leap independence from phone UX problem | sensors need to do processing | look up
13. second leap big data vs little data (cloud memory) mesh networks cities
14. privacy wars of the mid 21st century ! “we the worn”
15. the world i want we are not things wearables ≠ IOT
16. wearables must be dictated by context
18. Transhumanist techno apocalyptic fetish cyberpunk sorry, not my thing
19. legacy v2.0 no innovation
20. break the problem into its existing components re-connect in novel ways
21. a little lost aren’t we?
22. Stick to your essential principles Connected Creativity Openness and Transparency Happier people, healthier planet (these are ours)
23. thanks kwame@kwamecorp.com