Hearables -- or smart headphones -- are deep-in-ear wireless devices optimized for voice comms, medical monitoring, fitness tracking, and other features.

Hearables leaders today include Bragi and Samsung.

We forecast the global market for hearables shipments will expand a healthy +75% in 2019. Hearables will be one of the world's fastest-growing wearable segments next year.

Clients of our Wearable Device Ecosystems (WDE) service can view the full forecast and analysis here.