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from your head to your arms to your toes 2014 will be all about wearable technology wearables is a brand new wide-open thing and there's a lot of room for it to develop and grow expect to see the market of smartwatches explode several manufacturers are already keeping time including Samsung pebble and Qualcomm 2014 could finally be the year Apple clocks in with a long-rumoured iwatch I have high hopes that if Apple were to release something which is not outside the realm of possibility that it would be a very complete experience and it would also be something very accessible and it went to tie into a lot of the Apple ecosystem ok glass another well hyped wearable Google glass is expected to become available to the general public one of the interesting things about glass whether you love them or hate them is that there's nothing like it out there on the market right now and certainly not from anybody with the cloud or name recognition as Google it's not the only tech that hopes to land on your head virtual reality glasses from meta that project holographic images and the Scully motorcycle helmet with built-in heads up display could have a seeing the world in a whole new way curves are in in the new year expect to see curved screens on both televisions and smartphones similar to the current offerings from LG and Samsung there is a little bit of an ergonomic benefit to it all things being equal if you've got a straight screen phone and a curved screen phone may be more comfortable to hold the one with the curved screen in your pocket at your ear in your hand even because it sort of reduces the footprint so it doesn't seem quite as large but you may not even need to touch your device's to control them gesture technology could become more mainstream and instead of using your fingerprint to unlock devices how about your heartbeat it's on the horizon so maybe tech will be the new black for the new year in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News you