Still Think Wearable Computing Devices Are A Fad?

A use case for smartwatches that is literally saving lives | Android and Me. I can't count the number of people who have told me that wearable smartwatches are a fad. Nobody wears a watch anymore. They have their phones for that. Why do I need another device when I can just pick up my phone. Of course, they forget that men and women have been wearing watches for hundreds of years, and that SmartWatches merely add functionality to our lives. More than that, however, as this story shows, they will be at the vanguard of new medicine, acting as health monitoring devices. This developer added a continuous glucose monitor to a SmartWatch, and the device replaces most of the blood tests required to manage diabetes. As wearable computing devices are developed further, it isn't a stretch to say that many medical monitoring tasks will be performed by them.