Toronto Wearables 33: The Emperor Has No Wearables

[Hartman, Kate]

Hey TWM community,

TORONTO WEARABLES MEETUP IS BACK!

After a year + hiatus Toronto Wearables Meetup will be relaunching on Wednesday October 26th. Izzie Colpitts-Campbell and I are co-hosting, and Eric Boyd and Hillary Predko will be joining as special guests. We're hoping for this to be a juicy intimate conversation with the stakeholders in our community (you know who you are) about what the heck is going on in our field. Though there are now lots of amazing gatherings, meetups, and hackathons in the city for wearable types, TWM is looking to provide a common ground for people specifically interested in critical and creative engagement - moving beyond the "yay" into the "why", "why not", and "wow!”.

Details are below. Please RSVP here: http://torontowearables33.eventbrite.ca

We look forward to catching up with all of you at the end of the month!

Kate & Izzie

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Toronto Wearables #33 - The Emperor Has No Wearables

Wednesday, October 26th, 7-9PM

Gamma Space
#100 - 862 Richmond Street West

RSVP: http://torontowearables33.eventbrite.ca

Wearables are now “everywhere”. Yet as many of them are ending up in drawers or on shelves as on our bodies. The first wave has come and gone and now seems like a great time to step back and reflect before the next one hits. What have we learned from this initial expedition into intimate devices that inhabit people’s everyday lives? What worked? What’s missing? What needs to be changed?

Toronto Wearables Meetup first launched in 2010, years before the wearables craze hit Toronto. This month, at our 33rd event, we will host a discussion focused on critical and creative inquiry into the state of affairs in this dynamic and divisive field. We invite long time wearables practitioners and researchers as well as newly minted entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to share their thoughts and experiences. As we sift through our past experiences we will also discuss as a community what to do with our event moving forward. Where are the current opportunities for wearables? How do we want to get there? And what direction do we think wearables shouldn’t go?