The History of Wearable Tech, From the Casi** to the Consumer

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The History of Wearable Tech, From the Casi** to the Consumer
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Wearable tech**logy is perhaps the most prolific trend in the tech industry today.

From activity-tracking fitness bands to Google Glass (http://mashable.com/category/project-glass/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), big names are getting involved in the once-niche tech**logy — and they're getting involved in big ways.

See also: Lifelogging: The Most Miserable, Self-Aware 30 Days I've Ever Spent (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/lifelogging-experiment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


You probably wouldn't have guessed that the tech behind wearable computing devices finds much of its history in attempting to cheat casi**s. Inventors built some of the first wearables in the 1960s and '70s to count cards and improve a gambler's odds at the roulette table. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/13/wearable-tech**logy-history/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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