Will Wearables Create the Next "New Gesture"?

In class several weeks back, towards the beginning of the semester, Vinsel mentioned a book that recently came out that detailed all of the new gestures that have been invented in the past decade or so as a result of technology. The most obvious example that he gave (that I remember) was the motion of swiping your index finger across the palm of your opposite hand to unlock your iphone. This is something that everybody with an iphone (or any  phone that unlocks in a similar way) does multiple times a day, but nobody ever did before the advent of the smartphone.

This concept got me wondering (with the recent release of the apple watch, and the already existing smartwatch/wearable technologies), what will the next new gesture be? If wearables blow up like they're poised to, will we all be swiping our wrists in 3 years? Or poking at our watches to text? There are so many potential new movements and gestures that could come about from these new gadgets. But on the other hand, they also have the potential to phase out our current gestures (to an extent) and bring back some from the past. For example, say everybody has a smartwatch. When you receive a text, it goes to your watch. Get an email? It's on your watch? Want to check the time? From this example, we can see how getting notifications on your wristwatch would drastically reduce the amount that you perform the gesture of swiping open your smartphone (assuming you can use your watch to communicate and not just see things, I don't know how they'll end up working when they're in their heyday). This would also bring back the gesture of moving your wrist towards your face to look at the time, which also reduces the amount that a person would be opening their phone (since now it seems like most people will use their phone to check the time rather that wear a watch, and some people with watches only wear them for the style and can't read analog clocks, but that's another discussion).

The up-and-coming wearables have the potential to create a whole new motion that humans never really performed before, and I think it's kinda cool to be able to see that happening and actually realize what is happening in real time. This phenomenon also got me thinking about what the next big invention will be, but I'll save that for my next post perhaps.