Sure, Google is making eye-computers and Nike bracelets will watch you sleep, but there are plenty of other things happening on the wearable-tech front. Just take a look at the number of design patents filed in recent years.
On the ice-glazed streets of Manhattan [last week], while twiggy women teetered into Fashion Week tents pulsing with bass, a bunch of designers and attorneys gathered at Fordham University’s Fashion Law Institute to talk about patents, cool clothes, and the technology breakthroughs most likely change what we wear in the near future. Here are four big developments to watch: