The first experience of using "smart glasses" Google Glass has revealed an important ethical problem: not all visitors of bars, for example, want to be filmed, and in cinemas those device are even banned .
Gartner Experts believe by 2017 up to 30% of portable devices will operate covertly - but it would be difficult to detect. This will be possible thanks to the miniaturization of sensors and processors. For example, style jewelry rings and bracelets can be equipped with such sensors to read the heart rate of the owner, no displays and controls to them will not be issued.
Gartner analysts predict that by 2018 the market of displays placed on the head of the user will grow to 25 million. Products. Until then, they are mainly used in the military sphere and training systems, but technological progress and popularization of virtual technology and augmented reality will make them more accessible. These displays are widely used in "smart glasses".
By 2016, according to experts Gartner, biometric sensors can be found in 40% of new smartphones. They will be able to identify the user's voice, appearance, iris, fingerprint or heart rate.
Another trend is described by Gartner - is the appearance of people who have never owned a system based on the operating system Windows. In regions with growing economies such share by 2017 will be 33%. Many users simply began to explore digital technology with smart phones and tablets, and works with Windows they do not have.