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The Verge talked about how Thad Starner, a Georgia Tech professor and a pioneer in wearable tech, was speaking to a big crowd at SXSW about the inspirational uses of wearable tech. “You don’t really think about your eyeglasses. You see through them. It’s fluid,” Starner said at one point during his SXSW presentation. “So can we actually make wearable computers that are more like eyeglasses than binoculars?”
Read more here: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14935440/wearable-tech-openwater-google-project-jacquard-levis-smart-jacket-sxsw-2017