Forget smartwatches – wearable tech is going elsewhere

Smartwatches are the talk of the town at the moment with the recent arrival of the Samsung Galaxy Gear,Qualcomm Toq and Nissan’s Nismo Watch, but E Ink reckons they’ve all got it wrong.

TechRadar spent some time talking to E Ink’s Director of Product Management, Giovanni Mancini, who explained where the current crop are going wrong and where the future of wearable tech lies.

“Some of the smartwatches so far have been panned because they give the user something else worry about without offering any additional functionality,” he told us.

“We believe smartwatches will only really take off when they deliver functionality which is unique to a capability.”

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