IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - October 2015 - 122

"You can't live without it," won't just be figurative, it will
be a reality.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This article has been adapted from "The Apple Watch Heralds a
Brave New World of Digital Living" published in The Conversation
on 14 May 2015 and available at https://theconversation.com/
the-apple-watch-heralds-a-brave-new-world-of-digital-living-41171.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Katina Michael (katina@uow.edu.au) is with the School
Computing and Information Technology at the University
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
M.G. Michael (mgm@uow.edu.au) is with the School
Computing and Information Technology at the University
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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FiGURE 1. The Apple Watch. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Justin14.)

FiGURE 2. The first large-scale computer, the ENIAC. An original
newspaper headline in 1946 read, "It Won't Mind the Baby-Yet;
But Little Else Stops 'ENIAC.'" Who would ever have believed that
this wall-to-ceiling computer could be wrapped around a person's
wrist in 2015? (Image courtesy of the U.S. Army.)

go deeper, penetrating the skin and into the body. The new slogan might read "The Mark is Here," heralding the iPlant which
gives birth to life, the one and only passport to access your
forever services.
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