Future of wearables

Future of wearableskwamecorp thinking

how it all started

A solution looking for a problem(the blowing nipple story)

making sense of it all

Protocol (language) Mobile miniaturisation

Sensors leaving the phone

space debris, experimentation,

consolidation based on value

to user

zooming in

reality: 90% activity trackers

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

social

intimate

communicationquantified self

Our wearable framework

activity trackers

smart watches

bond

BOND Staying in touchLimited body real estate. Don’t compete with the phone. Make it jewellery. Make it versatile.

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notify authenticate record

control

cheap more expensive

first big leap

independence from phone UX problem | sensors need to do processing | look up

second leapbig data vs little data

(cloud memory) mesh networks

cities

privacy wars of the mid 21st century

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“we the worn”

the world i want

we are not things wearables ≠ IOT

wearables must be dictated by context

Transhumanist techno apocalyptic fetish cyberpunk

sorry, not my thing

legacy v2.0

no innovation

break the problem into its existing components

re-connect in novel ways

a little lost aren’t we?

Stick to your essential principles

Connected Creativity

Openness and Transparency

Happier people, healthier planet

(these are ours)

thanks kwame@kwamecorp.com