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"   Photo: IMAXtree.com/Matteo Volta  My friend Allegra swears by her Nike Fuelband. She wears it every day and anytime it&amp;#039;s featured in a fashion magazine, she snaps an iPhone pic and sends it to me as proof that it&amp;#039;s an acceptable thing for her to wear. Like me, Allegra works in fashion. She dresses impeccably and has exquisite taste. But that damn bracelet kills me. I wouldn&amp;#039;t be caught dead with that ugly rubber thing. I have a carefully curated collection of bracelets on my right wrist and a Cartier Tank on my left. There is absolutely, positively no room on either arm for athletic attire; if there were, its place would be reserved solely for the gym. Related: Best Gifts for the Fitness Fanatic in Your Life I get why the Fuelband is cool. I get why it&amp;#039;s important and what it does. I just don&amp;#039;t want to wear it. It&amp;#039;s like wearing sneakers on the subway and changing into heels when you get to the office. I get the point of it. It just kills my vibe. But I can&amp;#039;t deny that wearable tech is an accelerating trend, and one that won&amp;#039;t be going away anytime soon. This morning, at the International CES conference in Las Vegas, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich released news of earbuds that will be able to track runners&amp;#039; heart rates and work in tandem with smart phones. He showed off a new headset called Jarvis, which is like a digital personal assistant. (Yes, it can make you dinner reservations.) There was even a smart watch that enables parents to watch their children play in a yard and alert them if they go off of their specified property lines. I can&amp;#039;t imagine using any of these items\u2014mostly because they&amp;#039;re techy looking, and not in that sleek, sexy way, but more in a masculine, rubbery, will-ruin-my-outfit way. But it doesn&amp;#039;t change the fact that having a personal assistant at my fingertips (or rather, in my ear) would be really, really awesome. Related: Meet the Model That Knows How To Code In fashion, there&amp;#039;s a lot of trickle down: runway collections are translated into commercial collections. For those of us not daring (or wealthy) enough to afford the originals, we can usually find a less in-your-face, less expensive version at H&amp;amp;amp;M or Zara a few months after the ready-to-wear hits stores.  Perhaps this is my wish for the future of wearable tech: a collection straight outta the CES conference. Instead of an alien-looking earpiece known as Jarvis, I could have a cute little metallic black ear bud. Or better yet, maybe it could be made into an ear cuff-like design. Attention Anita Ko! Maybe instead of wearing a Nike Fuelband, my mules could be suped up with a little computer that tracks my activity. Doesn&amp;#039;t that make more sense any way? What&amp;#039;s my wrist really doing all day? Leave it to Barneys, the ultimate collaboration powerhouse, to try and save the day. Just when we were racking our brains for who would do it first, we got news that Intel is teaming up with Barneys, Opening Ceremony, and the CFDA to find new creative ways to design wearable technology. Barneys will kick off the collab by carrying a collection of smart bracelets designed by Opening Ceremony. &amp;quot;Humberto and I have always allowed our curiosity to take us to uncharted waters,&amp;quot; O.C. designer Carol Lim said in a release. &amp;quot;Since our early travels and shopping sprees in Asia, we&amp;#039;ve been keen on discovery. This is an incredibly exciting and unique opportunity with Intel to bring our design vision to a wearable accessory that collides with Intel&amp;#039;s state of the art innovation with fashion.&amp;quot; Here&amp;#039;s a call to action for all the wearable technology designers to create something that&amp;#039;s actually, well, wearable. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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