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Every week, a new smartwatch receives funding on Kickstarter, a new connected fitness band emerges from a Fortune 100 tech manufacturer, and an Ivy League dropout in a garage in Southern California takes aim at Google Glass.
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Better user experiences start with the basics like increasing battery life, adding location data and reduced form factor. Complete user experiences go a step further, adding rich layers of contextual information to fit more precisely into users’ lifestyles. The Year of Wearables may as well be called the Year of Natural Selection.
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