wearable tech

If wearable tech is to live up to its potential, it needs to start looking better.

如果可穿戴技术要充分发挥它的潜力，它就得开始在外表上下工夫。

Intel thinks 500 million pieces of wearable tech will be sold globally each year by 2020.

英特尔公司认为，到2020年，全球每年将能够售出5亿部可穿戴设备。

Estimates vary, but the research firm IDC projects that wearable tech will exceed 19 million units this year-more than triple last year's sales-and will soar to 111.9 million units by 2018.

人们对于可穿戴设备销量的估计各不相同。研究公司IDC认为，这类设备今年的销量将超过1900万件量，达到去年的三倍以上。到2018年，它的销量将会达到1.119亿件。

He is confident, though, that wearable tech is only now hitting its stride.

不过，他确信可穿戴技术现在刚进入状态。

Yet they have remained at the margins of the wearable tech rush. Until Apple's$ 3 billion buy, that is.

尽管如此，耳机一直处于可穿戴科技浪潮的边缘地带，直到苹果公司以30亿美元的高价收购了Beats，这种现象才得以改观。