First Google launched Google Glass and commercialized it; then Apple, Google, Sony, Samsung and others piled up to develop various wearable watches. Why are wearable devices so popular? This article does a concise analysis. Although the industry has done a lot of speculation, most people analyze from the perspective of substitution, such as replacing traditional watches with wearable watches, etc.. In my opinion, the dimensions of analyzing wearable devices should be multi-faceted. Roughly can be divided into the following dimensions: 1, the dimension of display 2, the dimension of calculation 3, the dimension of collection 4, the dimension of portability The following analysis. 1, the display dimension When we see the concept of wearable watches, the first reaction is that it is first of all a substitute for traditional watches, which can display the time. At the same time, due to the rapid development of low-power chips such as ARM architecture chips, it can be used as a powerful computing device, and connected to the Internet through wireless, replacing some of the functions of the smart phone such as mail, camera, short messages, music player, GPS and so on. With this thinking dimension, it must be the smartphone manufacturers, it will make the smartphone bigger, made into a tablet computer; make it smaller, into a smart watch. 2、 The dimension of collection People who adopt the dimension of collection tend to do people in the field of medical and health care, or people who do psychology. A prototype is a running watch, people wear such a watch, you can watch all kinds of time: regular time, countdown, counter, etc.; you can also monitor the heartbeat, blood pressure, body temperature, etc.. Such a device is a collector of various physiological parameters of the body, which are then calculated using well-developed computing power to make status judgments for people's health. If combined with cloud services, then such collection tools will have unlimited development space, and even what people are thinking, how to think, and what they are about to do can be clearly calculated. Because any human thinking activities, mental activities, neural activities, physiological activities are in the direction of measurable development in depth, you can know yourself better than your own known state, but also will allow others to know yourself better than yourself. 3, the dimension of computing The mainframe computer I used in the 80s had only 256k of memory, but needed a floor as a place to nurse it. Today, dual-core smartphones have more computing power than the best personal computers of 2 years ago. Obviously, it won't be long before such computing power will be available on any device, on any chip. So what can an on-the-go, tiny, networked chip with enormous computing power do? Be able to calculate the weather, calculate the traffic, be able to on-site real-time translation, be able to on-site emergency command, be able to easily realize the great scientists can only do things. Play chess, play poker, fight the landlord such things are all given to it, in the future, a few friends fight the landlord, either in the bathroom, we are not allowed to wear clothes, back to the original ecology; or is the intelligent competition between the various vendors, as today you use the cell phone operator to determine the quality of your calls. 4, the dimension of portable The essence of wearable devices comes from portability. The history of computing, on the one hand, is getting farther and farther away from people, floating to the cloud in unknown locations. You have no idea where the remote computing power is, maybe in Beijing, maybe in Shanghai, maybe in the United States, maybe on Mars. The other side of computing's history is that it's getting closer and closer to people: physical devices are moving from buildings to rooms, from rooms to desktops, from desktops to backpacks, from backpacks to pockets, and now from pockets to wearables, ultimately ending up as one with people. Indeed, the smartphone in the pocket is just a transitional product, a compromise. In my "What should the terminal display look like in the 3G era?" blog post published 4 years ago, I reasoned that as the smartphone becomes more and more popular, it will become more and more popular. blog post reasoned that, with the improvement of chip computing power, display technology breakthroughs, the future is bound to be: "display and operator separation, each do their own thing, and then connected to each other wired or wireless". Well, first portable into wearable. For example, shoes, belts, watches, eyes, helmets, shorts, undershirts, rings and so on, with these wearable devices dry? Can be divided into two stages, the first is the extension of traditional products, such as military eyes certainly and Google eyes is not the same thing, it can see through everything: infrared function, ultraviolet function, large aperture function, ultrasonic function, remote sensing function, and so on, will be stronger than the snake has a stronger infrared sensing ability, more than the X-ray perspective, more than owls, more than the owls, more than the stronger acoustic sound wave detection function. Then you connect to satellites, and you've got everything in the place in great detail. And then comes the analysis and intelligent actions. For example, the mind thinks, the control follows the mind. Going back to the military eye just above, you're able to see more of the target, and you're also able to analyze and judge the target very clearly. For example, in an alleyway battle, you have people in front of you all decorated as civilians, and you can barely tell who's a soldier and who's a civilian. With the military eye, this is particularly easy. x-rays are able to directly scan for the presence of equipment; then the video is sent back to the cloud, where the history of all life within a number of meters is analyzed in real time to determine, and then show those who may be dangerous. Then the eyeballs or personal radar take direct control of the weapon and destroy the target. Some people think that this is very far away, in fact, from the eye tracking technology has entered the practical state of view, to reach the stage just described will not be more than 5 years. From the above analysis, we can see why people are so keen on wearables. Wearable devices have a huge development space, but also suggests that the development of the mobile Internet will be far more than our predictions, we need to diligently learn and communicate, not complacent, not to mention closed doors. The slightest hesitation will lead to lagging behind. Learning, openness, communication and sharing are the most crucial elements to maintain progress. There is a huge scope for wearable products to develop further: computing devices become one with the person. In this regard, technology is also evolving rapidly and is already being practiced in healthcare and the military. Mobile Discovery focuses on discovering and sharing new applications and trends, both domestically and internationally.
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