This week Motorola Mobility (aka Google) announced that it would be hiring a Director for Wearable Technology, following the company’s announcement earlier this year that it was ‘profoundly interested in wearables’. The firm even unveiled a ‘tattoo’ that was electronically authenticated.
It would be stretching a point to say that traditional tattoos are wearable technology, but in some ways there are, and the same case could be made for mobile phones. They're permanently with many of us; we ‘wear’ them in the same way that some of us ‘wear’ tattoos that were etched onto our skin by technology.
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