{"id":222466,"date":"2025-09-25T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/were-getting-a-clearer-look-at-the-future-of-wearables"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:14:39","slug":"were-getting-a-clearer-look-at-the-future-of-wearables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/were-getting-a-clearer-look-at-the-future-of-wearables","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Getting a Clearer Look at the Future of Wearables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-getting-a-clearer-look-at-the-future-of-wearables2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the tech industry\u2019s first telling, the post-smartphone world is a simple question of what and when: glasses? Watches? Pins? Armbands? Implants?<em> <\/em>It\u2019s portrayed as a simple matter of progress \u2014 in consumer technology, things must be replaced by newer and better things \u2014 but also as a reaction to the burdens and distractions of the <em>previous <\/em>great gadget, from which new gadgets will set us free.<\/p>\n<p>A survey of the post-phone landscape as it exists, though, reveals a complication in this consumerist liberation story. Someday, a new gadget may usher us into the post-smartphone world; in the meantime, the industry will have us trying everything else at once: on our faces, in our ears, around our necks, and on our appendages. Our phones \u2014 and the always-on, data-and-attention-hungry logic they represent \u2014 aren\u2019t being replaced. They\u2019re being extended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the tech industry\u2019s first telling, the post-smartphone world is a simple question of what and when: glasses? Watches? Pins? Armbands? Implants? It\u2019s portrayed as a simple matter of progress \u2014 in consumer technology, things must be replaced by newer and better things \u2014 but also as a reaction to the burdens and distractions of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}