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Wearable tech sees all, so choose what you want to share.

Professor Chris Baber contributes to The Conversation.

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Depending on how you define the term, “wearable technology” has been developing since the mid-1990s or since the advent of spectacles or even clothing. When wearable computers were first introduced to the market in the early 2000s, these tended to be quite bulky devices in the form of boxes in bags or on belts that were connected by trailing wires to the headset and control devices.