{"id":2187,"date":"2014-01-28T08:23:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T08:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/28\/but-if-wearable-is-going-to-get-anywhere-itll\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:52","slug":"but-if-wearable-is-going-to-get-anywhere-itll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/28\/but-if-wearable-is-going-to-get-anywhere-itll\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>But if wearable is going to get anywhere it\u2019ll need to embrace the pointless. It\u2019s the domain of the pointless, the terrain of the trivial. If we were all being practical, we\u2019d wear identical nylon boiler suits and \u00a34 watches \u2014 but that\u2019s not the species we\u2019re in. We\u2019re the species that evolved a fashion industry and Global Hypercolor T-shirts. Efficiency is not a priority for wearables. What are the cheap fashion applications? What accessories can Claire\u2019s sell? What can you buy at the garden centre and down the market?<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/01\/features\/awkward-moments-from-the-future-of-computing\">Awkward moments from the future of computing (Wired UK)<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Recently I read some disappointing pieces in various popular tech outlets breathlessly heralding the arrival of wearables, espousing the virtues of \u2018invisible\u2019 and \u2018natural\u2019 interfaces, all the while limiting technology to only the current wave of computation. So I was relieved to see this counterpoint by Russell. People might be put off by his insistence on the insatiable human passion for the useless and garish, but it rings more true to me than most accounts of tech dissolving in the environment.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But if wearable is going to get anywhere it\u2019ll need to embrace the pointless. It\u2019s the domain of the pointless, the terrain of the trivial. If we were all being practical, we\u2019d wear identical nylon boiler suits and \u00a34 watches \u2014 but that\u2019s not the species we\u2019re in. We\u2019re the species that evolved a fashion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/28\/but-if-wearable-is-going-to-get-anywhere-itll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}