Hi all, I found this very brief article in one of my crawler emails for work. I thought you'd like to see it because we have all envisioned how we can weave articles of clothing that may have additional electronic practical capabilities. We're ahead of the curve! Forrester Research: Sarah Rotman Epps Link: Wearable Devices: The Next Battleground For The Platform Wars "Wearable devices, or "wearables" for short, have enormous potential for uses in health and fitness, navigation, social networking, commerce, and media. Imagine video games that happen in real space. Or glasses that remind you of your colleague's name that you really should know. Or paying for a coffee at Starbucks with your watch instead of your phone. Wearables will transform our lives in numerous ways, trivial and substantial, that we are just starting to imagine. In a new Forrester report out today, we argue that wearables will move mainstream once they get serious investment from the "big five" platforms - Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook - and their developer communities, and we give advice to product strategists who want to stay ahead of the wearables curve." (For related content, see Three Unexpected Internet Trends for 2012.)