Tech Wearable makes a fashion statement

  A movie premiere in New York today and Beautiful chances are none of you will ever see.

This is a short film titled "DVF Through Glass" and this is the video drew working models for designer Diane von Furstenberg during Fashion Week in New York with Google Goggles, they wore. (Google draws its augmented reality devices Google Call glass to distinguish them from real glasses, as they do not contain glass. Contained?)

These are the leaders that such a stir last spring when they unveiled Google laptops, videos and take photos and tell you where the nearest Starbucks is. She is wearing, walk on the runway, has become high-tech models von Furstenberg accessorized. For its part, Google has succeeded in de-familiar with his invention, but by putting it on the models, not to mention take a few New York media exposure before all devices via the Apple iPhone exposed d 5th

Spencer Ante As the Wall Street Journal this week, Google glass remains a work in progress, with a large part of his unfinished software. It will not be available until next year, and $ 1,500 a pop, will probably be a new gimmick for a while.

Implementation appcessorized

However, it is already the best-known of which "appcessories" portable devices that work with smartphones. Earlier this week, a potential challenger augmented reality glasses developed by a British company called The called is Technology Partnership (TTP), debuted. Google Unlike glass, resembles the unit TTP glasses and exudes an image directly into the wearer's eye, instead he attached more weight on a tiny screen on the frame.

Then there are the pebbles, a smart clock that tells the time, but also connects wirelessly with your iPhone or Android phone to show you who's calling, view text messages, Facebook, or e-mail notifications and you check from your wrist, which plays on your smartphone. Its inventor had hoped $ 100,000 on Kickstarter, with the goal of selling 1000 watches. Instead, raised $ 10 million and have orders for 85,000 watches, making them the first delivery expected later this month, had to move.

This is the kind of reaction that many people predict that free wearable computing the next big wave, what we will take from what is called the "Black Mirror" from our screens of smartphones. Your phone can still be a powerful little computer that you wear, but it can not always rely pocket.

Power Ring

Or you can forego without the phone. London Digital Art Director Dhani Sutanto created a ring with enamel electronic transport card implanted. A single blow of his ring and may the London Underground.

His goal, he says, the development of "interactions without buttons", the physical objects, such as connecting a ring in your virtual identity and preferences is.

"Imagine a blind person using an ATM, fumbling with the buttons or the touch screen." Sutanto said recently an investigator "If they had mobile technology in the form of a ring, for example, they could approach and even touch the ATM could say." Hello, Mr. Smith. Here are your 20 pounds. "

Count on me

Google is not the only technology to instill in Fashion Week. Microsoft was there, too, have a dress that has tweeted. Well,. The dress, made of paper, tweet, no, but the person who wears it has a keyboard on her dress, the bottom of the dress decorated with Twitter banter

My guess and hope is that it will not turn on, and we will never again live in a world where people wear their tweets on their sleeves. But another breakthrough in mobile technology a few months ago could radically change what we want to do on our clothes for us.

Scientists at the University of Exeter in the UK have a substance that can be woven into a fabric material to light, transparent and flexible never done that conducts electricity created. One day, they say, could go into the clothing that carries a charge.

To me it seems not a good fashion choice if there is even a chance of thunder and lightning. But researchers from Exeter to happier thoughts. They speak shirts that turn into MP3 and charge your phone with pants.

Which could give new meaning to "wardrobe malfunction".