Centric's Parag Joshi takes a look at the history of wearables, and compare and contrast the more popular wearables of today: Apple Watch, Fitbit and Pebble. He also discusses the Microsoft Hololens, flying cameras, and the various useful applications of wearables today and the not-so-useful, a/k/a “geeky” use of wearables.
Legendary wearable reviewer Ray “DC Rainmaker” Maker, offered a bold take on what the next generation of devices need to achieve to maintain an edge. “The next big challenge for wearables is go beyond making data actionable,” he said. “There is an opportunity to use data to provide immediate next steps for the user to take… you want to be able to say, ‘this is the one thing that you need to do next.’ This is different from saying here’s 5 things you could do, but here’s the one thing you should do.”
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By Paul Holway.
Regardless of how you feel about felines, dead cats stink. What also stinks is what is happening to agile development practices. What started as a movement to increase quality and usefulness of code written, has been professionalized into certificates and ceremonies that are only marginally helping the process. Instead of blaming political and organizational forces, this humorous and irreverent talk focuses on what team members can do to overcome these corporate obstacles and to get to the spirit of agile through a focus on architectural innovation and personal improvement. Attendees should expect to laugh, to learn from the experience of implementing dozens of real world enterprise agile teams, and to come out with proven new techniques to try to bring more satisfaction to how they do their work and to bring the focus of agile back to software development.
DevOps: Sprinkle Dev, Sprinkle Ops, Let's make Cake, not Mud PiesCentric Consulting
Brian Paulsmeyer, a Sr. Architect at Centric St. Louis, spoke about DevOps on September 29th at Agile Gravy Conference in St. Louis. Here's his presentation, which starts with Agile development pitfalls that plague teams, moves into the actual capabilities that a team requires to be successful, and finally describes concrete implementations to achieve “Done Means Done” development.
Michael McNeal and Heather Roscoe-Andersen speak Tuesday at Seattle Interactive Conference on “Marketing Automation Done Right: How is Your Customer Experience Changing to Match Your Customer’s Expectations?”
Centric Software Architects Bill Klos, Shawn Wallace, and Morgan Howard explain what a hackathon is, how it benefits companies, and how to start one. They've hosted three hackathons for Centric technologists.
About Joseph Ours' Presentation – “Bad Metric – Bad!”
Metrics have always been used in corporate sectors, primarily as a way to gain insight into what is an otherwise invisible world. Organizations blindly adopt a set of metrics as a way of satisfying some process transparency requirement, rarely applying any statistical or scientific thought behind the measures and metrics they establish and interpret. Many metrics do not represent what people believe they do and as a result can lead to erroneous decisions. Joseph looks at some of the common and some of the humorous testing metrics and determines why they are failures. He further discusses the real purpose of metrics, metrics programs and finishes with pitfalls into which you fall.
Legendary wearable reviewer Ray “DC Rainmaker” Maker, offered a bold take on what the next generation of devices need to achieve to maintain an edge. “The next big challenge for wearables is go beyond making data actionable,” he said. “There is an opportunity to use data to provide immediate next steps for the user to take… you want to be able to say, ‘this is the one thing that you need to do next.’ This is different from saying here’s 5 things you could do, but here’s the one thing you should do.”
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By Paul Holway.
Regardless of how you feel about felines, dead cats stink. What also stinks is what is happening to agile development practices. What started as a movement to increase quality and usefulness of code written, has been professionalized into certificates and ceremonies that are only marginally helping the process. Instead of blaming political and organizational forces, this humorous and irreverent talk focuses on what team members can do to overcome these corporate obstacles and to get to the spirit of agile through a focus on architectural innovation and personal improvement. Attendees should expect to laugh, to learn from the experience of implementing dozens of real world enterprise agile teams, and to come out with proven new techniques to try to bring more satisfaction to how they do their work and to bring the focus of agile back to software development.
DevOps: Sprinkle Dev, Sprinkle Ops, Let's make Cake, not Mud PiesCentric Consulting
Brian Paulsmeyer, a Sr. Architect at Centric St. Louis, spoke about DevOps on September 29th at Agile Gravy Conference in St. Louis. Here's his presentation, which starts with Agile development pitfalls that plague teams, moves into the actual capabilities that a team requires to be successful, and finally describes concrete implementations to achieve “Done Means Done” development.
Michael McNeal and Heather Roscoe-Andersen speak Tuesday at Seattle Interactive Conference on “Marketing Automation Done Right: How is Your Customer Experience Changing to Match Your Customer’s Expectations?”
Centric Software Architects Bill Klos, Shawn Wallace, and Morgan Howard explain what a hackathon is, how it benefits companies, and how to start one. They've hosted three hackathons for Centric technologists.
About Joseph Ours' Presentation – “Bad Metric – Bad!”
Metrics have always been used in corporate sectors, primarily as a way to gain insight into what is an otherwise invisible world. Organizations blindly adopt a set of metrics as a way of satisfying some process transparency requirement, rarely applying any statistical or scientific thought behind the measures and metrics they establish and interpret. Many metrics do not represent what people believe they do and as a result can lead to erroneous decisions. Joseph looks at some of the common and some of the humorous testing metrics and determines why they are failures. He further discusses the real purpose of metrics, metrics programs and finishes with pitfalls into which you fall.
Centric Seattle's Ryan Lowe and Microsoft's Karthik Ravindran partner to speak about "Marketing Operations: Scaling the Art and Science of Modern Marketing" at Seattle Interactive on Wednesday, October 19.
Event-driven architecture is a versatile approach to designing and integrating complex software systems. These systems tend to be easier to model and build. Event-driven architecture is not a new concept, but as more organizations contemplate microservices, this approach to system design has become appropriate in more situations and is worth a fresh look.
Metrics on the Money: The Art & Science of Change MeasurementCentric Consulting
Centric's Colleen Campbell, National Organizational Change Management Practice Lead, spoke on the importance of metrics in change management at Midwest Change Connect. In her presentation, focused on measuring the success of a project, and how to measure any change effort from technology adoption to culture shift.
No, not Majel Barrett, but being able to simply speak commands into the air and have a computer either retrieve data or execute functions has always been a lofty goal. With tech like Siri, Cortana and Google Now, it seemed like we were always on the cusp, but the systems were locked down with very limited expansion abilities. But now there’s Alexa from Amazon, and that connection to your enterprise systems is at your command. But what does it mean to have a voice UI? What are the pitfalls that come with the benefits? What are the design and testing considerations when developing conversations with your data? We’ll explore these topics as well as discuss what it takes to build Amazon Skills, and how effective it is for business purposes.
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) - will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Conway's Law (1967). Centric's Cloud Services Lead Wiliam Klos shares his pointers on simplifying the management of your microservices. More detail on Bill's presentation at the CloudDevelop Conference here: http://centricconsulting.com/events/william-klos-selected-to-speak-at-clouddevelop-2016/
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By Joseph Ours
Joseph's presentation is based on the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" where Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman introduces two mental systems, one that is fast and the other slow. Together they shape our impressions of the world around us and help us make choices. System 1 is largely unconscious and makes snap judgments based upon memories of similar events and our emotions. System 2 is painfully slow, and is the process by which we consciously check the facts and think carefully and rationally. System 2 is easily distracted. System 1 is wrong quite often. Real-world examples that demonstrate how the two systems work are that pro golfers will more accurately putt for par than they do for birdie regardless of distance and people will buy more cans of soup when there is a sign on the display that says “limit 12 per customer."
Business Process Excellence: Building Out Business Process CapabilitiesCentric Consulting
In this presentation, we explore whether the business process improvement capability is best built from the bottom up (a “grassroots” effort) or built via a separate, dedicated function that is governed and managed centrally.
Modeling Your Applications Based on Airport Operations Centric Consulting
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By William Klos.
If you’ve only spent a small amount of time in an airport, then you may have missed the tight orchestration it takes to get you – and your bags – from Point A to Point B. You seem to go from one line to the next – waiting for your turn to be processed. Getting your boarding pass in one line, x-rayed in another, snacks in another. Each line you stand in is completely unrelated to all the other lines, yet, they each play an important role in the overall process of getting you to your destination. Building scaleable distributed applications has many of those same characteristics. Seemingly disjointed, independent processes that work together to perform a larger function. This talk will focus on the design characteristics of this approach and include some real world examples using Golang, Docker & RabbitMQ – though this technique is tool agnostic. The airport metaphor will be stretched to the limit and there are sure to be some groan-worthy examples.
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By William Klos.
On your way to work one morning, you walk by your favorite coffee shop. As you walk by, you notice a sign in the window with the day's specials: $1 off Lattes today! That's nice, but maybe Latte isn't your favorite… Now imagine this... Same scenario, but as you approach the coffee shop (let's say 100 feet away), your phone suddenly notifies you with the following message: "Good Morning, Chris. Your favorite Cookie Crumble Mocha is only a few steps away. Stop in and we'll take $1 off your total!" This is a much more direct, targeted, and context-aware approach! By using Beacons you can make a huge impact on customer engagement and revenue generation.
Stitching Together a UX Strategy for Wearables and the Mobile MainframePhilip Likens
Google Glass, Samsung Gear, MetaWatch, Fitbit Flex, and a whole host of other wearable devices are weaving a connectivity web with a similar underlying pattern: the smartphone is emerging as the mobile mainframe. Our phones are powerful, always-on, always-connected machines that pipe data to and from these terminals (or devices). The result is an amazing collection of capabilities and experiences for the user.
Thinking Outside The Little Black Box: Interaction Design in The Post-Mobile EraJonathan Stark
It will soon be economically feasible to put chips, sensors, actuators, and radios into a wide range of previously “dumb” everyday items. The resulting explosion of connected objects will have profound effects on art, culture, and design.
Decades of designing and developing for the distributed architecture of the web has uniquely positioned web professionals to thrive the connected future that is fast approaching.
Please join Jonathan for an eye-opening look at the challenges and opportunities that will be created for web professionals in the post-mobile computing era.
1. Likely winners —and losers— in the coming networked society
2. How to transition web skills to broader application space
3. What the web might look like in 3D virtual space
4. Approaches to designing front-ends for screenless devices
5. Implications of extending back-end code into physical space
Smart Glasses will be one of the next big things in technology. But the interaction paradigm is not yet well defined. This presentation gives an overview over different interaction schemes like speech, gesture, point-of-view, head cursor interaction etc.
Centric Seattle's Ryan Lowe and Microsoft's Karthik Ravindran partner to speak about "Marketing Operations: Scaling the Art and Science of Modern Marketing" at Seattle Interactive on Wednesday, October 19.
Event-driven architecture is a versatile approach to designing and integrating complex software systems. These systems tend to be easier to model and build. Event-driven architecture is not a new concept, but as more organizations contemplate microservices, this approach to system design has become appropriate in more situations and is worth a fresh look.
Metrics on the Money: The Art & Science of Change MeasurementCentric Consulting
Centric's Colleen Campbell, National Organizational Change Management Practice Lead, spoke on the importance of metrics in change management at Midwest Change Connect. In her presentation, focused on measuring the success of a project, and how to measure any change effort from technology adoption to culture shift.
No, not Majel Barrett, but being able to simply speak commands into the air and have a computer either retrieve data or execute functions has always been a lofty goal. With tech like Siri, Cortana and Google Now, it seemed like we were always on the cusp, but the systems were locked down with very limited expansion abilities. But now there’s Alexa from Amazon, and that connection to your enterprise systems is at your command. But what does it mean to have a voice UI? What are the pitfalls that come with the benefits? What are the design and testing considerations when developing conversations with your data? We’ll explore these topics as well as discuss what it takes to build Amazon Skills, and how effective it is for business purposes.
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) - will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Conway's Law (1967). Centric's Cloud Services Lead Wiliam Klos shares his pointers on simplifying the management of your microservices. More detail on Bill's presentation at the CloudDevelop Conference here: http://centricconsulting.com/events/william-klos-selected-to-speak-at-clouddevelop-2016/
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By Joseph Ours
Joseph's presentation is based on the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" where Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman introduces two mental systems, one that is fast and the other slow. Together they shape our impressions of the world around us and help us make choices. System 1 is largely unconscious and makes snap judgments based upon memories of similar events and our emotions. System 2 is painfully slow, and is the process by which we consciously check the facts and think carefully and rationally. System 2 is easily distracted. System 1 is wrong quite often. Real-world examples that demonstrate how the two systems work are that pro golfers will more accurately putt for par than they do for birdie regardless of distance and people will buy more cans of soup when there is a sign on the display that says “limit 12 per customer."
Business Process Excellence: Building Out Business Process CapabilitiesCentric Consulting
In this presentation, we explore whether the business process improvement capability is best built from the bottom up (a “grassroots” effort) or built via a separate, dedicated function that is governed and managed centrally.
Modeling Your Applications Based on Airport Operations Centric Consulting
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By William Klos.
If you’ve only spent a small amount of time in an airport, then you may have missed the tight orchestration it takes to get you – and your bags – from Point A to Point B. You seem to go from one line to the next – waiting for your turn to be processed. Getting your boarding pass in one line, x-rayed in another, snacks in another. Each line you stand in is completely unrelated to all the other lines, yet, they each play an important role in the overall process of getting you to your destination. Building scaleable distributed applications has many of those same characteristics. Seemingly disjointed, independent processes that work together to perform a larger function. This talk will focus on the design characteristics of this approach and include some real world examples using Golang, Docker & RabbitMQ – though this technique is tool agnostic. The airport metaphor will be stretched to the limit and there are sure to be some groan-worthy examples.
Presented at CodeMash 2015. By William Klos.
On your way to work one morning, you walk by your favorite coffee shop. As you walk by, you notice a sign in the window with the day's specials: $1 off Lattes today! That's nice, but maybe Latte isn't your favorite… Now imagine this... Same scenario, but as you approach the coffee shop (let's say 100 feet away), your phone suddenly notifies you with the following message: "Good Morning, Chris. Your favorite Cookie Crumble Mocha is only a few steps away. Stop in and we'll take $1 off your total!" This is a much more direct, targeted, and context-aware approach! By using Beacons you can make a huge impact on customer engagement and revenue generation.
Stitching Together a UX Strategy for Wearables and the Mobile MainframePhilip Likens
Google Glass, Samsung Gear, MetaWatch, Fitbit Flex, and a whole host of other wearable devices are weaving a connectivity web with a similar underlying pattern: the smartphone is emerging as the mobile mainframe. Our phones are powerful, always-on, always-connected machines that pipe data to and from these terminals (or devices). The result is an amazing collection of capabilities and experiences for the user.
Thinking Outside The Little Black Box: Interaction Design in The Post-Mobile EraJonathan Stark
It will soon be economically feasible to put chips, sensors, actuators, and radios into a wide range of previously “dumb” everyday items. The resulting explosion of connected objects will have profound effects on art, culture, and design.
Decades of designing and developing for the distributed architecture of the web has uniquely positioned web professionals to thrive the connected future that is fast approaching.
Please join Jonathan for an eye-opening look at the challenges and opportunities that will be created for web professionals in the post-mobile computing era.
1. Likely winners —and losers— in the coming networked society
2. How to transition web skills to broader application space
3. What the web might look like in 3D virtual space
4. Approaches to designing front-ends for screenless devices
5. Implications of extending back-end code into physical space
Smart Glasses will be one of the next big things in technology. But the interaction paradigm is not yet well defined. This presentation gives an overview over different interaction schemes like speech, gesture, point-of-view, head cursor interaction etc.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Managing Content and Experience in the ...Jonathan Stark
Mobile computing as we know it today is just one application of wireless technology, and a fairly limited one at that. The iPhone - perhaps the most advanced piece of consumer electronics ever created - is going to look like a fax machine compared to what's coming. Mobile is a warning shot - the coming wireless wave will profoundly change every aspect of society and potentially redefine what it means to be human. Please join mobile consultant Jonathan Stark for a look at the past, present, and future - and what we can do to prepare for the revolution.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Rise of the Wearables
1. Rise of the Wearables!!
- PARAG JOSHI
- @ILOVETHEXBOX
CENTRIC CONSULTING
2. A little about me
• Been working in Microsoft based technologies for a looong
time!
• Am a mobile geek (six phones and counting).
• So now i develop mobile applications in native, hybrid
technologies!
• My twitter -> @ I Love the Xbox !
• Working with Centric Consulting for last 7 1/2 years (Full
time and as an independent prior to fulltime).
• Co-Director - Cincinnati DotNet User Group (www.cinnug.org)
• Director – Cincinnati All Things Mobile User Group
(www.catmug.org)
• Love to work with cool toys (aka Kinect, wearbles, HoloLens
maybe??)
• Searching for the ultimate wearable device!
8. T I M E L I N E O F W E A R A B L E L A U N C H E S
• First watch designed to be worn appeared in 1530. It was
powered by winding the watch and lasted 12 to 16 hours.
• Queen Elizabeth I was presented a jeweled watch in 1571.
• John Harrison’s H4 sea watch was used in 1759 for navigation.
• Calculator watches first appeared in 1970. Remember Casio
Databank?
• Seiko TV Watch debuted in 1982 and appeared in James
Bond Film- Octopussy
9. T I M E L I N E O F W E A R A B L E L A U N C H E S
http://www.zdnet.com/the-history-of-wearable-technology-a-timeline-7000030090/
10. T I M E L I N E O F W E A R A B L E L A U N C H E S
• Casio Databank appears in 1984.
• Sinclair Wristwatch Radio in 1985
• Micro Optical , founded in 1995, was an early developer of head
mounted displays. The founder, Mark Spitzer, was later hired by
google in creating the Google Glass.
• Microsoft SPOT watches released in 1993
• Garmin releases forerunner in 2003
• Fitbit tracker was unveiled in 2008 and is still very popular as a
fitness device.
• Sony Smartwatch in 2012.
• Pebble launches in Jan 2013 via a most successful kickstarter
campaign.
• Google Glass follows in feb 2013
11. W H Y D O I N E E D A N O T H E R D E V I C E ?
• I have a Laptop..
• I have a Smart Phone.
• I have a tablet.
• I don’t really need another device that requires charge!
• Life is too complicated!
12. A T Y P I C A L D AY !
• Get up in the morning.
• Check your phone.
• Get in the car. Play music from your phone. Go to work.
• Work on your laptop. Attend conference calls via Skype.
• Get off work. Check your calendar on your phone for evening activities.
• Get in the car. Play music from your phone. Go home.
• Sit down for dinner.
• Watch TV.
• Browse on your tablet.
• Days over!
13. W H Y D O I N E E D A N O T H E R D E V I C E ?
• Life is too complicated!
20. W H AT D O W E A R A B L E S M E A N T O
P E O P L E ?
• Fitness trackers?
• Smart Watches?
• Payment devices?
• A computer all in one?
• Hearing aids?
• Glasses of the future?
• Flexible Displays?
• Replacement Bionic Hand?
21. T H E D E V I C E I W E A R W I L L …
• Measure my fitness.
• Show my reminders.
• Let me take phone calls (Since by the time one takes the phone
out of the pocket, the call has usually gone to voicemail).
• Play music.
• Unlock my front door.
• Arm or disarm my security system.
22. T H E D E V I C E I W E A R W I L L …
• Replace my universal remote (after all when there is a watch on
my hand, why do I need to get up and grab the remote?).
• Open my soda bottle (Oops I forgot that bottle opener!).
• Show me a small projected screen (Since I don’t want to miss
that touchdown of course!) to watch news or sports.
• Be able to withstand water and impacts without damage (After
all I don’t want to take it off while playing tennis and swimming).
• Last forever (10 days is good for starters) or use solar charging.
23. • After all, I am not a very demanding
person!!
• Brief pause while the laughter dies down ☺
• Is this possible?
• After all, if it can be envisioned, it can be
done.
24. T O E A C H H I S O W N !
• There is no clear winner.
• Most people give up wearing fitness bands in a year.
• Quite a few folks wear watches but they are personal!
• Nobody is going to answer phone calls on their wrist!
• Choice of device is by desired function, IMHO!
28. L E T S L O O K AT F I T B I T
• Popular fitness device
• Recently announced a smartwatch style fitbit product
called FitBit Surge
• Primarily a fitness tracker rather than a smartwatch
replacement
29. N E X T I T S T H E S A M S U N G W E A R
D E V I C E S
• Great if you are in the samsung eco system.
• A variety of products based upon need.
• Confusing for consumer which one to pick.
• 1000 apps and counting.
30. P E B B L E T I M E - O U T O F T I M E ?
• Popular wearable.
• Works on both iOS and Android.
• No key sensors so primarily serves as a smartwatch
companion.
• 1000 plus apps and good battery life.
• Possible not a viable option anymore.
31. R E S T O F A N D R O I D W E A R
• Plenty of options if you own a non Samsung Android
phone.
• Also support iOS in some capacity so why choose
Pebble?
• A variety of choices from HuaWei to LG to Moto 360
Second Generation.
• Work well with Android devices.
32. M I C R O S O F T B A N D
• Primarily a fitness device.
• Works great with windows phone devices but also with
iOS and Android devices.
• Good quality product.
33. A N D A P P L E WAT C H
• Obvious choice for iPhone users.
• No shortage of apps including those that unlock doors
and other home automation functions.
• Good option due to tight integration but as stated
above only for the iOS ecosystem.
34. W H AT W E A R A B L E S A R E N O T /
S H O U L D N O T B E
• Distractions for driving. Some send every text to your
wrist. Imagine driving with getting constantly buzzed
on the wrist.
• Replacements for smartphones. Not yet at least!
• The one device to “Control them all”!
35. S O W H AT A B O U T M Y S M A R T P H O N E ?
• All popular smartphones (iOS, Android, Windows
Phone) devices can do pretty much everything a
wearable can and then some more on a bigger screen.
• Stand alone wearables are not robust enough or
available at this point (Remember Dick Tracy’s watch).
• So wearables are just convenience at this point rather
than a needed accessory.
37. D E V E L O P E R O P T I O N S
• Depends on choice of platform
• iOS for Apple
• Android for Android family of wearables except
Samsung (Tizen OS).
• C or Javascript for Pebble (If it remains viable)
• Other paid/monthly subscription options.
39. T H E S K Y ’ S T H E L I M I T ! L I T E R A L LY !
40. T E C H N O L O G Y C H A N G E S L I F E
THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY CAN MAKE IT
SIMPLE
41. T H A N K
Y O U !
WHAT WILL YOUR WEARABLE BE?
LETS SIMPLIFY LIFE!
42. C R E D I T S
• Wikipedia for Images
• http://www.openbionics.org
• http://flynixie.com
• http://www.apple.com/watch/
• http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us
• https://twitter.com
• http://facebook.com
• https://www.google.com/glass/start/
• http://www.wired.com/2015/01/useful-wearables/
43. R E F E R E N C E S
• http://www.zdnet.com/the-history-of-wearable-technology-a-
timeline-7000030090/
• Pebble (getPebble.com)
• Moto360 Web Site
• Microsoft (Band and HoloLens)
• Apple Watch Web Site
• Samsung Gear Web Site
• FitBit WebSite