According to the Wall Street Journal, Google could be mere “months away” from launching a smartwatch.
The watch will run Google’s Android operating system and use Google Now, a kind of digital personal assistant, to give you up-to-date advice on travel sport etc. straight to your wrist, based on your location and preferences.
A new craze in devices, with smaller screens, could well change the way we view news. Writing for the internet requires shorter paragraphs and quotable facts put in bold to allow for faster skim reading. Sub headings are more frequent to break the articles down, and shocking details are emboldened or put in the article title as link bait.
How people read stuff and human skin trousers
As this article from Slate shows most internet users never finish an article anyway. How many people are going to finish an article on a watch?
Will there be a divergence of content, into made for watch stuff and online stuff, and how will smartphone use change as a result? That same article from the WSJ suggests profits may be peaking in the mobile phone world, at least in developed markets.
Apps such as circa already provide a tailored news service with any flamboyance chopped out. You follow a story and get any new content diced up into 50 word nuggets. This could become the norm.
Finally, while on the subject of wearable technology, what about a pair of trousers made from human skin? High-waisted, they do include the genitals and some wiry hair.
Hats off to the Huffpost for their opening para:
“If you thought skinny pants were a new trend, think again — they’ve been around in Iceland since the 17th century.”
Nábrók, they call them apparently.
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