What Could Derail The Wearables Revolution?

Tom is late for his train and doesn't know the way to the station. Racing around a corner, he runs into a plaza full of tourists snapping and uploading photos to Instagram and Facebook. Which way should he go? He tells his Internet-connected contact lenses to load a map, meanwhile tapping at his smartwatch to pull up his ticket and platform information. An alarm flashes in his peripheral vision, only 15 minutes until the train departs, but the map is not loading. He looks around in dismay, frantically yelling “refresh” to his lenses against the clamour of the street. An alert scrolls across his vision: “You're feeling stressed. Take a breath. Have a hug!” But with all the tourists accessing the Internet, Tom has no hope of getting his much-needed map.

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