Wearable gadgets, like watches to check text messages, not ready for prime time

A Sony SmartWatch 2 is pictured at the Sony booth during a media preview day at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, September 5, 2013 - Reuters

LAS VEGAS/SINGAPORE: Despite the hoopla, wearable gadgets like wristwatches for checking your text messages or eyeglasses that capture video are unlikely to make a splash with consumers anytime soon, given the clumsy designs, high prices and technological constraints of many of the current offerings.

That is the conclusion drawn by many industry executives and analysts who trolled the vast exhibition halls of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.