Dubbed "the year of the wearable," 2014 saw explosions in the consumer market and the potential to stay active and track sleep while big pharma used hundreds of wearables for clinical trials.
Its problems have been made worse by a growing number of vending machines that rent films for as little as a dollar a day, as well as an explosion in the number of consumers streaming movies online, either illegally or through legitimate sites such as Netflix and iTunes.
In a conversation last week at The New York Times, Mr. Schmidt said that the explosion in online consumer monitoring was increasing friction about how strict the privacy limits should be.
They are concerned in part because two of the economy's most powerful recent engines have been exposed as a mirage: the explosion in consumer debt and spending, which lifted short-term growth at the expense of future growth, and the great Wall Street boom, which depended partly on activities that had very little real value.
The blue light was a clever twist on an old trick: the markdown sale, a retail strategy dating back to the late-nineteenth-century explosion in the mass production and distribution of consumer goods.
Poles have bought more than 500,000 new cars each year for the last four years, reflecting the prosperity and an explosion in consumer credit, but posing dangers for more inflation, already at 11.6percentt in July, a two-year high.
"The continuing explosion of Web connectivity in business and increased activities in the consumer and education sector are fuelling this growth," said Pete Hitchen, Internet research manager at IDC Asia/Pacific.
After past recessions, there has often been an immediate explosion in consumer spending as pent-up demand comes to the fore, and as the housing industry rebounds rapidly.
The slogan-geared trials provide fodder for an explosion in consumer advertising of drugs, which had been highly restricted for decades before rules were eased in the 1990s.
Jack S. Kilby, Pioneer In Electronics, Dies Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age and heralded an explosion in consumer electronics products, was 81.
