A Compelling, Short Video Explains The Present And Future Of Wearable Technology

“Having technology on you, around you, inside you 24/7 is going to be totally commonplace,” says Rebecca (Becky) Stern, a director of wearable electronics at Adafruit Industries, in this excellent, highly watchable introduction to wearable technology.

Adafruit is a thriving electronics boutique based in New York City and aimed at the maker community, and it’s but one example of the $1.5 billion business that wearable technology is projected to become by 2014. Wearable tech includes everything from health trackers like Nike’s Fuelband and computers you can swallow to Google Glass.