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Wearables Are Totally Failing the People Who Need Them Most


Wearables Are Totally Failing the People Who Need Them Most WIRED

Source: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/where-fitne...

As the Internet of Things becomes an actual thing, more steps are being counted, more sleep patterns are being logged, more activities are being app-ified. What isn’t appearing in the data is much common sense or ambition. Instead, developers continue flocking to a saturated market filled with hipster pet rocks, devices that gather reams of largely superficial information for young people whose health isn’t in question, or at risk.

It’s a shame because the people who could most benefit from this technology—the old, the chronically ill, the poor—are being ignored. 

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Eventually someone smart will see the old, the ill, the poor, as a great market opportunity.

Till then the hipsters will keep building things most people don't want or need.

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