The first is wearables' move away from the tech brands into the wider market. While smartwatches have been produced mainly by smartphone makers, now every hardware manufacturer under the sun wants in on the action. This is good news for consumers – greater variety means greater competition and could push down prices, at least for low-end devices.The second is the emergence of high-end wearables that don’t look like wearables. The first example of this is the MICA smart bracelet – a couture wearable for women developed by Intel and Opening Ceremony, which carries a hefty $1,000 price tag. It’s also worth bearing in mind that 2014 saw DKNY models take to the catwalk wearing Google Glass, while a range of designer frames for Google’s smart glasses was released too.Finally, I think we may start to see the emergence of smart fabrics. Once again, this is likely to start off in the fitness sector, but it’ll be the first step in what many think is the real future of wearable technology.

You may be surprised I didn’t put the Microsoft Band here, and there’s no doubt it’s a very exciting piece of technology. However, what makes the Swatch Touch so important is that it's the first to be made by an established watchmaker. This could open up a whole new channel of smartwatches, as, if it’s a success, Swatch’s competitors will follow suit. This, in turn, could lead to well-known makers of other consumer items turning their attention to make their own products "smart” in some way.Even before the iPad Air 2 came along it was difficult to see where Apple could improve, and although it did with the achingly slim, super-powerful iPad Air 2, we can’t see it performing the same heroics next year. Meanwhile, iOS seems stuck in something of a rut.

Perhaps Apple will introduce a bigger iPad Pro, as has long been rumoured to be the case, perhaps it will focus on delivering the update that the iPad Mini deserved this year. Either way, we think that either LG, Samsung or (most likely) Sony will finally produce a tablet that batters the iPad into submission – one with a better screen, a lower price, faster performance and maybe even a pressure-sensitive stylus as well.And it will be thanks in no small part to Android 5 (Lollipop). The latest version of Android is the best yet for tablets of all sizes, and it will help devices built on the platform go from strength to strength in 2015.Editor-in-chief Tim Danton (@timdanton): I often hear that operating systems don’t matter anymore. The trend for document storage is heading one way – the cloud – and that means our devices are relegated to the dumb terminals of yore. They’re a tool to do a job, and we should care as little about the code that runs underneath as we should the embedded OSes that power our washing machine.Wrong. And I predict that 2015 will be the year this fact is thwacked into our collective skulls with greater force than ever, because Microsoft, Google and Apple know full well that to control the OS is to control our purses. Get it right and they receive a cut of the money we pay retailers for those oh-so-convenient wireless payments, a 30% tax on all app transactions and an ever-growing-chunk of the world’s marketing budgets through search-based advertising.

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This was one of those cases where the right size of printer would cut out lots of long-haul relationships with repro companies. Companies for whom this would be a small job for a distant and unimportant customer.Getting visits lined up to the remote parts of Cornwall isn’t all that simple to schedule, and while I was ready to volunteer to put the stack of laptops in the back of my car, the printer was a whole different logistical exercise: it arrived on a shipping pallet.Despite the obvious challenges this represents, by the time I got down there, not only was the printer off its pallet: it was in the building, hooked up, and a couple of local community publications that previously had been hard to handle were stacked up ready to distribute.

Unless I am very much mistaken, that counts as a transformation. No superhero required: the key difference here was that a device big enough to arrive on a pallet was at the same time, smart enough to drop into a network that is not really fully finished yet, and straight away be used for a job previously way out of the comfort zone of the organisation.Making your print colours match what you see onscreen is a dark (or should that be "light”?) art. Left to their own devices, even expensive, high-end printers such as the Canon Pixma Pro-100 can turn a steely grey into a muddy brown, skin tones into lurid pinks, and delicate shades of colour into one bland mash. With the right tweaks, however, you can transform the appearance of your photographs. See also: what's the best printer for enthusiasts and professionals?Achieving maximum colour accuracy takes patience, an understanding of the different colour-management modes, and no small amount of trial and error.

We can’t possibly hope to cover the full range of colour-management techniques here, but here’s a quick guide to matching screen and print colours, and the different colour-management modes available in Photoshop.The first step to achieving colour accuracy is to make sure that your monitor is properly calibrated. For our tests, we used an Eizo ColorEdge CG276 display, but most home photography enthusiasts won’t be fortunate enough to have such high-end equipment at their disposal. Thankfully, there are a number of options for those who don’t.The first, most basic step is to use the screen-calibration tools that are now built into Windows. Click Start and search for "calibrate”; in Windows 7 and 8 you should get the option to "Calibrate display color” (go via the Control Panel | Appearance And Personalisation | Display, if not). These tools are fairly rudimentary, but should help correct any major problems with gamma, brightness, contrast and colour balance.

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Those who take their photography seriously may wish to invest in dedicated calibration hardware. The monitors we test in the PC Pro labs are calibrated with an X-Rite i1Display Pro, which is available for around £160. This puck-sized calibrator rests on your screen, and using the provided software you can ensure your display is set to the best possible colour temperature, brightness, contrast and gamma. If you don’t trust the colour accuracy of your monitor but don’t want to invest in a better screen or hardware calibrator, you may already have a calibrated screen in your household of which you could make use: your tablet or smartphone. Many of today’s high-end mobile devices are factory-tuned to deliver astounding colour accuracy.The imaging experts at DisplayMate (pcpro.link/244dpmate) carry out regular test of tablet screens to determine which delivers the best image quality: a relatively recent report on the accuracy of three leading tablets concluded that the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9in and the original iPad Air both "deliver top-notch picture quality, absolute colour accuracy, and accurate image contrast that isn’t only better than any other tablet, it’s also much better than most HD TVs, laptops and monitors. In fact, with some minor calibration tweaks they would both qualify as studio reference monitors.”http://www.batteries-pc.com/samsung.html

We know professional photographers who, before sending photos to print, first download them onto their iPad to check colour accuracy. Alternatively, you can line up your iPad and monitor side by side with the same image onscreen, and try to match the colours as closely as possible by adjusting your monitor’s settings.Once you have the screen colour accuracy sorted, it’s time to work on the printer. The range of colour-management options available to you will depend on the sophistication of the printer. At the top end, the Epson Stylus Pro 4900 Windows drivers offer a full range of colour-management settings, and the device can even be fitted with an optional X-Rite spectrophotometer for maximum colour accuracy.The Canon Pixma Pro-100, meanwhile, includes a colour-management plugin for Photoshop in its software bundle, which we found useful for tweaking settings – although it doesn’t go much further than the print options already provided in Photoshop itself.

In general, we found that we obtained the most consistent results by switching off all the printer’s automatic colour-management tools and allowing Photoshop to handle colour management. There were a few exceptions to this rule, in particular with black-and-white photography on the high-end printers, but it’s usually best to take control in the imaging software if you can. Photoshop’s print settings provide a number of colour-management options with which you may need to experiment to achieve the best results for different types of image. There are four types of "rendering intent”, which we explain below.Perceptual: We used this setting most often, and it’s the one that delivered the most satisfying results for our test photos. Perceptual rendering aims to maintain the visual relationship between colours so that they’re perceived as "natural” to the human eye. The software will use its judgement to "pull back” colours that would be outside of the printer’s colour gamut, effectively compressing some of the spectrum. This tends to reduce the saturation of images, but leaves skin tones in particular with a pleasingly lifelike quality.

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