This Special Issue includes the best revised selected papers from The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Smart Devices (ETSD 2012), that took place in Anaheim, California, USA, in December 3-7, 2012. This first edition of ETSD received very good contributions. Then, this special issue includes the better conference papers after a rigorous review process in order to revise and enlarge the original contributions while avoiding self-plagiarism.