Psst! Wearable Devices Could Make Big Tech Leaps, Into Your Ear : All Tech Considered : NPR

Psst! Wearable Devices Could Make Big Tech Leaps, Into Your Ear : All Tech Considered : NPR: It's early evening on a Thursday and you're at a networking event, balancing a small plate of appetizers in one hand. Someone comes up to you to say hello. She acts like you've met before, but you can't recall where.

"It's Jackie Barnes," she says.

"Jackie Barnes," you repeat like you remember. "It's been a while."

As you say her name, a little device in your ear picks it up. The device does a search, and microseconds later it feeds you the info it's found on the Web: the college she attended, her current company, that she has two kids and is an avid runner.