Original version

BBC World Service Online

Click

Digital Planet

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Science & Nature: Science & Technology

Technological and digital news from around the world.

Digital Planet: Wearable Technologies

Factual: Science & Nature

Atau Tanaka

30/12/2014

Wearable Technologies

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Wearable Technologies

Google Glass, life-logging cameras and the future of wearable technologies

The evolution of wearable technologies such as Google Glass, life-logging cameras and SixthSense gestural interfaces

Technology allows us to wear prescription glasses and put on wrist watches.  Without giving these devices much thought, once they are on, we are hardly aware of them. The same philosophy underpins today's advanced wearable technologies. 

In a special edition of Click from the BBC’s Radio Theatre, Gareth Mitchell charts the evolution of wearable technologies such as Google Glass, life-logging cameras and SixthSense gestural interfaces.

These devices suggest a future where you will not have to disrupt social interactions with invasive technology (such as a hand-held mobile phone) because you will have ambient awareness of your surroundings.

Click is joined by a panel of experts to discuss whether a world of augmented reality through wearable technologies is near and achievable or far away and fanciful.  And finally, is it desirable or inevitable?

(Photo caption: Atau Tanaka performing with his BioMuse system © Atau Tanaka)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Digital Planet

Wearable Technologies

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service