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This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Apple’s iWatch looks beautiful. It is a stone cold fact that cannot be denied. The problem comes when you try to nail down its purpose. We’ve all heard the old chestnut “necessity is the mother of invention.” After you take a good long look at the iWatch, there is no denying it is completely unnecessary. Year in and year out, since the rise of the affordable personal computer in the mid 1980s, technology has been society’s problem-solving wizard. Laptops allowed us to work anywhere, iPods allowed us to carry our entire music library with us at all times, and smartphones kept us connected to each other, information and basically our entire lives. Other gadgets have come along to make these innovations more luxurious (iPads, set-top boxes, George Foreman grills…), but none of them are true necessities. Since Steve Jobs’ passing, everyone from impatient stockholders to your Facebook-addicted grandma has been waiting for Apple’s n...

Google Glass is a miniaturized computer and camera fixed to eyewear, which connects to the Web wirelessly, as displayed at the annual HDI tech conference and expo this year. This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Somewhere in the last decade, technology surpassed nuclear weapons for the greatest threat to modern living. To name a few concerns, the government spies on all our communication, robots and automation devour millions of jobs, Smartphone radiation is likely causing cancer in its users, and hackers steal people’s identities. While there is a degree of truth to that, the greatest truth to fear is, in the next year or two, it will be impossible to escape being filmed. The smoking gun in this tidal wave of surveillance might be Google Glass. Released in 2013 for developers to test run, Google Glass is a miniaturized computer and camera fixed to eyewear, which connects to the Web wirelessly. It can currently take pictures, video, search the Net, answer var...