CES Predictions 2014: Will This Be The Year Wearable Tech Becomes Mainstream? Google Glass Lookalikes & Smartwatches To Be Showcased In Vegas Next Week

CES predictions 2014: Wearable technology is practically in the tech world’s lexicon by now, with Google Glass, Pebble Smartwatch and the 800,000-units-sold-so-far Samsung Galaxy Gear heralding the entry of the new product category. According to Darrell Etherington of TechCrunch, many are speculating 2014 to be the breakout year for the wearable tech.

At CES this year, which kicks-off on Tuesday at Las Vegas, wearables will be featured prominently. Sony is expected to show-off its own Galaxy Gear competitor, a Sony smartwatch that’s designed to help the Japanese tech giant have an arsenal in the tech world’s “war for the wrist” as one Guardian reporter puts it.

TechCrunch noted that Pebble, Kiwi Wearables, MYO, Lumo, Fitbit, Qualcomm, MetaWatch and more wearable tech companies will have booths at the show and likely products as well. There is an actually an entire zone dedicated to wrist-borne gadgets, TechCrunch reports, and it won’t be surprising if a number of Google Glass lookalikes will be in the expo hall as well.

The annual tech show in Vegas, which in some ways get mainstream coverage, is the perfect place for the companies to showcase why they need or should want wearable tech. A few will be attempting to present their case at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield stage. The need for a more concrete reason on why people should wear tech is a great and requires more than just an improvement on devices that are lready out there.

Pebble Smartwatch has already gained traction, thanks to a million-dollar success in Kickstarter and Samsung Galaxy Gear has already sold almost a million units. Google Glass, if in case we see a 2014 release maybe a key push that will further increase adoption of wearable tech on a massive scale.