Wired Labs has a good starting point: Bundling Digital and Physical but that is just the beginning as the investigation is where the juice comes out:
1) Ask why do it at all and what is this new thing that people are going to carry around?
2)
See who's done it, so many have: Jawbone, UP, Brawn Electric Shavers
w/skin sensors, naturally MP3 players, but there are others: Swifter,
Roomba, Canary, etc. - we've examined these before.
3) How's it going to expand over time as if it isn't a platform and it can't learn or adapt what's the point?
4)
Planned obsolescence for alternative purposes: you've still got your old
laptop around somewhere using it for other purposes? There are whole
companies dedicated to recycling - yet another part of the ecosystem
that your firm should be owning
And these are just a few of the ways.
Naturally through disruptive design, there are a host more.
