Sony obtains patent SmartWig
04
Dec
According to a BBC report, the SmartWig can be used “in addition to natural hair”, and will be able to process data and 
communicate wirelessly with other external devices, but without clarifying how data is available, perhaps the famous glasses: Google Glass, Vuzix, Telephaty and others.
Actually it is a wig, according to the definition of the patent at the USPTO (United States Trademark Office), the device is a ” Wearable computing device, comprising a wig that is adapted to cover at least a part of a head of a user, at least one sensor for providing input data, a processing unit that is coupled to the at least one sensor for processing said input data, and a communication interface that is coupled to the processing unit for communicating with a second computing device”, thus defined is the device of Japanese patent Sony.
Patent further states that have at least one sensor unit, “a processing unit and a communication interface” which are ´wig´ and at least ‘partially covered by wigs so as to be visually hidden during use”.
Also according to BBC News, citing analyst Andrew Milroy, the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, the BBC: “Wearable gadgets are definitely going to be one of the big areas of growth over the next two years” said Milroy.
