This year at CES – the market defining Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the general consensus was that 2014 would be the year when wearable technology took off. There were some dissenting views – some thought it would be the year of Home Automation, particularly when Google went and splashed out $3.2billion for Nest, whilst some felt that maybe the Internet of Things would move from being a playground for geeks to a mainstream business. But if you look at what is actually going into production, it looks like wearables was the best bet. That was reinforced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Phones and hardware were distinctly passé, the excitement was in what you could wear.

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