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Mutual fund giant Fidelity Investment's first 'Glassware' app is unlikely to wow many users. But it does signal how the financial services industry is coming to regard wearable computing devices as the next mobile battleground.
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A new wearable computing wristband from Canadian startup Bionym that is expected to ship in early 2014 could be used to unlock banking apps and doors.
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The smartphone blog Android Police has discovered several
"Some of these (like Add a Calendar Event, Capture a Panorama, and Play Music) make sense as features that would be baked right into Glass, while others sound like new or additional functionality for Glassware," wrote
Wearable computing is a hot topic in financial services technology, as vendors look to capitalize on the possibilities. Fidelity Investments, for example, has an app that
Google (GOOG) updated the software for its glasses this month. Another future feature, inactive but embedded in the code, would allow Google Glass to translate languages, according to the blog.
How users give instructions to Glass could change as well, with certain motions being used to initiate a task. For example, instead of giving a voice command, the user could blink an eye as a signal for Glass to snap a photo.