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The first consumer-facing wearable devices launched in the late 1980s and mostly comprised of computers strapped to your head or wrist PDAs that weren’t quite as useful in real life as they were on paper.

However, one big shift that’s happening in the industry is that mobile manufacturers are embracing the wearables challenge, making much more exciting devices than we saw even three years ago.

With the launch of wearables...