Wearable tech still has a ways to go before it gets big

From small startups to big businesses like LG and Sony, the Consumer Electronics Show this year was packed with wearable device. Unfortunately, the only thing that can be gathered from CES 2014 is that wearable tech is still very much a work in progress.

Before this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, I issued a challenge: I wanted makers of wearable tech to prove to me that the time had come for this category of gadgets. What I was seeking was irrefutable proof there was wearable technology out there demonstrating enough clear and immediate benefit that consumers would flock to it in droves. That’s not what I found.