Nonetheless Google Glass does clearly indicate that the next wave of disruption for the mobile computing device lies beyond the smartphone.

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With storage getting smaller even as capacity increases, Dulaney suggests there may not be a need for some users to carry a mobile computing device who otherwise would.

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And for the first time, the mobile device had enough computing power and screen real estate to do something interesting with the sensor data.

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On Nov. 5 the Mountain View, Calif. search giant announced that it had cobbled together an alliance of 34 companies seeking to turn the mobile phone into a freely open computing device.

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It's not about the watch form factor, but creating a wearable mobile device that takes advantage of advances in mobile computing technology such as cheap sensors, better battery life and improved voice recognition.

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Capellas said one possible device for such continuous computing would be similar to today's mobile phone with extra buttons for nontelephony functionality.

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Three high-performance MIPS computing cores--or brains--can be crammed into the same space within a phone or mobile device as a single Intel Atom mobile processor core without increasing the device's power draw.

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