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Wearable technology products will be fashion items, therefore 3D printing will play a role by enabling cheap and cheerful personalization.

Wearable technologies will spur on work on miniature and distributed sensors. Customers will demand energy harvesting solutions to make them long-lifetime hassle-free fit-and-forget solutions. Low-power electronic systems will be used in portable, mobile and low-power wearable devices. These will benefit from solutions already optimized for energy harvesting applications.

Wearable and textile based devices will require interconnects that are rugged, robust, stretchable and washable. Graphene already shows great promise in being the right solution here.

Wearable technology devices will be connected, joining the growing family of connected devices sharing data as part of the an emerging global cloud system. IoT looks at this emerging system for IP-connected devices

Wearable technology needs to be robust, light, thin, flexible and even stretchable. The electronic components already undergoing this paradigm shift include displays, batteries, backplanes, conductors, sensors, etc. Printed, large-area, and/or organic electronics enables this paradigm shift towards electronics with new form factors.

Wearable devices will be mobile and portable, requiring thin energy storage solutions that can be powered up rapidly. Indeed, energy storage is likely to be a performance bottleneck, as with other mobile devices. Supercapacitors will form part of the emerging solutions as they prolong battery lifetime, accelerate the charge up process, and enable features demanding fast power discharge.