By John Glenday

A group of mobile researchers have boldly predicted the rise of smart watches in the coming years to challenge the dominance of tablets in the portable computing market as early as 2018.

CCS Insight calculate that smart watches will lead a wave of wearable technologies from wristbands to spectacles in a burgeoning new category of computing, with combined sales of some 135m by 2018, half of which will stem from smart watches.

Amongst the key applications projected for such gadgets are health monitoring of bodily processes such as heart beats and fitness trackers to keep tabs of calories burnt and miles jogged.

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Source: The Drum