Samsung’s smart clothes are wearables you’d actually wear

LAS VEGAS — The man talking to me looks dapper in his grey suit. As we chat, he takes a smartphone out of his pocket and waves it over an enlarged button with gray markings on his left cuff.

What he’s just done, he says, is silence his phone of notifications. He tells me the idea is to provide an easy way to put your phone into “do not disturb” mode when, say, you’re about to head into a meeting. The button, which also makes for a nice lapel pin, can also be configured via the accompanying app to share contact information with other people’s phones in the same way, eliminating the need to carry a business card. Read more...