Pharrell Williams‘ non-profit, Black Ambition, celebrated its fourth annual Demo Day in New York City, awarding over $2.7 million to 30 innovative startups led by Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs. The event, designed to bridge opportunity and wealth gaps, highlighted companies across tech, healthcare, consumer goods, artificial intelligence, and media/entertainment.
From the glove controlled motion commands from Minority Report to the TV glasses from Back to the Future Part II, science fiction suggests that wearable technology is an integral part of life in the future, and judging by the recent boom in wearable tech development, every large tech corporation as well as thousands of startups and venture capitalists seem to think so too.