Fashion crossover at Spanish technology fair

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2006

MADRID (AFP) — They're not quite offering "wearable" computers yet, but mobile hi-tech gear and fashion are well on the way to merging if the the 46th edition of Madrid's International Exhibition of Information Technology and Communications, popularly known as SIMO, is any guide. SIMO is Europe's second-biggest IT fair behind Germany's CeBIT extravaganza.

While it may sit in the techno slipstream of Asian equivalents, 650 firms nonetheless showed up this week to display their wares, seeking to attract the attention of the corporate sector as well as that of the public at large. Spanish firms in particular have awakened to the fact that in the era of the "intelligent" home, information technology has taken off with women as well as men. Bearing that in mind, Asus computers...