Spent a day at the Appnation conference and want to share my notes from my favorite presentation - wearable technology. I'v been a big fan of wearables for some and it's exciting to see how the technology that was used by a few geeks taking the central stage. Anyway, here are my quick notes from the presentation. DEC 4, 2013 SESSION LEADER: REDG SNODGRASS, FOUNDER, STAINED GLASS LABS ERIC MIGICOVSKY, FOUNDER AND CEO, PEBBLE JEF HOLOVE, FOUNDER AND CEO, BASIS REMI EL-OUAZZANEEl, CEO, MOVIDIUS Q. Why now? sensor technology becomes affordable cloud is ready, sensor data can be uploaded to the cloud big companies are making huge investments Q. Why wearables? wearables provide value now, helping solve problems in daily live Pebble watch can provide contextual information (ex: runkeeper app that is active when user is running). My understanding is that sensors can be used to determine current user's context, if user is walking/runnin...
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