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It remains to be seen whether 2015 will be the year the wearables market really explodes. However, October 2014 polling by Ipsos found that wearable devices had a more promising year ahead of them compared with some other new technologies.
Nearly one-fifth of US internet users intended to purchase a wearable device within the next 12 months. Though this was behind more traditional connected devices such as smartphones, laptops and tablets by at least 9 percentage points, it led other relatively new options such as streaming media devices and 4-K TVs. Read the rest at eMarketer.
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