Smart dressing: advances in wearable technology

We are, it’s claimed, on the brink of a wearable technology revolution.

Fast-forward ten years and, according to some predictions, today’s smart phones and tablets will be rendered obsolete by a new generation of surreptitious devices controlled  by little more than a wink of the eye, a twirl of the finger or the peak of  a brain-wave.

While such claims should probably be taken with a pinch of salt, there’s little doubt that wearable technology - long talked about as the next big thing - is gathering momentum.

Later this year, the hotly anticipated Google Glass wearable computer is expected to be made available to consumers, whilst engineers at Apple are reported to be working on  a wrist-worn computer - inevitably dubbed the iWatch - that has sent the Mac-fan rumour mill into overdrive.

And away from the headlines, a host of wearable technologies aimed at a variety of different sectors are poised to find their feet in largely untested new markets.