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Wearable Devices: $800 Million Market This Year; $1.5 Billion In 2014

Google's Project Glass is expected to unleash a huge new market - the smart wearables market is widely estimated to bring in revenues of more than 800 million dollars this year, and is expected to grow into a 1.5 billion dollar market by 2014 (Source)

How do we digest these stats? This is a very nascent market at the moment, and these are optimistic growth projections. But also remember that we are talking device sales here - this has the potential to get a whole ecosystem up and running.

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