Google, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft and other IT giants are smart phones and tablet PC market war was in full swing, but their eyes have have pointed at the next battleground - Wearable equipment market
Google officially announced that it has produced its first batch of Google Glasses (Developer Edition), and also plans to begin shipping. Although the price is up to $ 1,500, but Google glasses with record video, take photos, video calls, satellite navigation and network search function, and still let the market excited.
In addition to Google, Apple, Samsung has been in the development of wearable devices, Microsoft and Baidu also recently joined us. Allegedly, Apple internal Apple iWatch 100 engineers dedicated to research and development. Smart watch can watch videos, phone calls, send and receive mail, view map, they can even support the holographic projection. It is not just the iPhone accessories, is a stand-alone device can replace the iPhone. Samsung has been disclosed is developing smart watches, may be named Galaxy Altius. Microsoft has asked suppliers to configure the touch screen watch equipment to test the water wearable equipment market. Baidu is developing a Google glasses similar products, to improve Baidu Image Search and facial recognition, internally known as the "Baidu eye.
In recent years, the IT industry has been in hot wearable electronic devices, several giant recent pace of new product development has accelerated noticeably. One Chinese and the huge market potential of the Internet of Things. Cisco in its White Paper on the interconnection of all things in the next 10 years the world will have 50 billion interconnection of things, the economic potential of the entire Internet of Things market is expected to more than 10 trillion U.S. dollars. In this context, wearable intelligent products will usher in a period of vigorous development, future users will be worn on the body to one or several intelligent devices to collect the required information. The second is the support of the flexible display technology. With the flexible display technology matures, the future in the form of smart devices from today's relatively bulky, fragile and fixed glass display freed, and thus into the different appearance of the screen can be rolled out, attached to the uneven surface even be stretched. As a result, there will be more kind of a more trendy wearable device is designed.
Wearable devices will be the next hot spot of the information and communication technology (ICT) to the semiconductor industry, application developers, device manufacturers, telecom operators to bring new market opportunities. For the user, in the next five to 10 years, wearable device may completely change the users' lives. Users will not need to open the Tablet PC or mobile phone from time to time to take a look at wearable devices have become part of the user who exists in a most natural form. So that users do not feel the presence of innovative technology, this is the future of wearable devices.
