Got a new Android Wear smartwatch, but don't know how to set it up or use it properly? Here's how to add music, customize the watch face, block unwanted notifications, and carry out a host of other actions.
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Ever wanted to experience what it is like to be a master pianist tickling the ivories? A new video gives a sense of what that might feel like, courtesy of wearable eye-tracking glasses.
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Thanks to SHFT IQ, a triangular piece of hardware that can be clipped onto your shoe or worn around your waist like a belt, you'll be able to have an AI-based coach track and analyze your full-body running style and statistics.
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If you've been considering a smartwatch but find most designs to be too contemporary, check out the sleek and classic-looking Samsung Gear S3. One of our favorites, this smartwatch is now $50 off from Amazon and Best Buy.
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After announcing it at I/O 2016, Google is finally launching Android Wear 2.0, a major revamp that's meant to breathe new life into the company's smartwatch platform. Here's when you can expect it on your watch.
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The biggest and most important watch fair in the world is taking place as every other year in Basel. This time besides “new” versions of watches that were already presented at last year’s show we also found some interesting facts like Swarovski postponing the presentation of its first own smartwatch. In the past, they teamed up with Samsung for the Gear S or with Huawei for the Watch Jewel among others to present some of their pieces. This time they got us all excited after the announcement of their smartwatch at CES 2017to be presented at Baselworld, but only 2months later they announced their plans to postpone the launching stating that they were not ready yet.
Diesel (one of the Fossil brands who also unveiled more watches such as Q Venture and Q Explorer joined the smartwatch race with their first smartwatch, the Diesel On, an Android Wear 2.0 watch that comes with some special features such as a cracked-screen effect that increases as more notifications come through, and a building fog that covers the screen when you’re not active.
Movado Connect is also a new Android Wear watch that will come with a variety of “faces” hitting the market later this year.
Michael Kors came to Baselworld to present a few new smartwatches, Access Grayson for men, Access Sofie for women and Access Hybrid. These watches come with an AMOLED touchscreen display, Android Wear 2.0 and stylish looks plus you will be able to use an Instagram image as your watch face for a totally unique look.
Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45 was not really launched during Baselworld but all the looks were on them. The Modular 45 is the follow-up to the original 2016 Connected. It’s also compatible with analog watch faces, so if you’re bored of the connected experience, you can disconnect.
Another fashion brand launching a smartwatch was Hugo Boss with the Touch which will offer NFC. Also Tommy Hilfiger with a watch name that you will “easily” remember…the TH24/7You in line with the fashion brand. The TH24/7You is cheaper than the Touch, at $299, although it lacks NFC. They both do run Android Wear 2.0.
To continue with fashion brands launching smartwatches…..Emporio Armani Connected, This is the first Emporio Armani Connected Android Wear smartwatch. Armani Exchange entered the wearables market with Armani Exchange Connected, a collection of hybrid smartwatches.
We see as a pattern that every year more and more fashion brands are joining the crowd smartwatch market. In the near future, we will all own a smartwatch? Will the brands go down with the prices? Is it already my analog watch a vintage piece? Only the future will tell, or Fossil if it keeps unveiling more and more watches for its several brands such as Michael Kors, Diesel, Misfit, Emporio Armani, Skagen, Michele or Kate Spade…brands that in a mere coincidence also unveiled new pieces of smartwatches at Baselworld this year…
Garming's new Forerunner 935 smartwatch hones in on fitness. It packs new activity-tracking skills designed to optimize your workouts, and compatibility with Garmin's existing line of fitness apps and accessories.
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Channeling exciting ideas into new product development.
At the 2017 Advanced Textiles Conference, four educational tracks—military, medical, smart fabrics and testing—will give attendees the latest news on the processes, products and profit potential in working with high-tech fabrics and fabrication techniques. The Advanced Textiles Conference, part of IFAI Expo 2017, will be held in New Orleans Sept. 26-29.
The Smart Fabrics Program is designed to give attendees access to experts, materials and education to help them bring new ideas, new materials and new products into commercial reality—bringing together textiles, technology, design and manufacturing. Showcasing innovative suppliers to the e-textiles market, exploring technologies ranging from mechanical, chemical and biological to electronic, the event will facilitate new ideas, new discussions and new and productive industry partnerships.
Also part of the Smart Fabrics Program:
For complete program information on the Smart Fabrics Program or the other educational opportunities offered by the Advanced Textiles Conference, visit http://ift.tt/2mPNmbj.
An air of overwhelming luxury, prestige, and exclusivity is almost constantly present at the massive watch industry show in Basel, Switzerland. The message from many brands is to look, but not to touch. If smart technology is going to be more widely adopted, this needs to change.
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Baselworld 2017 saw a ton of great new wearables and a flurry of Android Wear smartwatches, from watchmakers and fashion brands like Fossil, Tag Heuer, Guess, Movado, and Emporio Armani. Here's everything we saw.
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We wear a fitness tracker and although it collects plenty of data, it doesn't always tell us what to do with it. The Veldt Luxture, a hybrid smartwatch, may change all that with its innovative Life Rhythm feature.
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If you're on the hunt for a great activity tracker, then the Samsung Gear Fit 2 watch is now on sale from Amazon. The Gear Fit 2 is one of our own favorite models and comes in at just $130 after a nice $50 discount.
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Amazon's limited-time Gold Box deals for Tuesday, March 28, include a popular fitness tracker, superfast router, and set of noise-canceling headphones. Enjoy discounts between 28 and 37 percent off and savings up to $50.
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The Apple Watch Series 2 was released to some fanfare, but many are looking for more. In fact, the next Apple Watch could be the best yet. Here's everything we know about the Apple Watch Series 3 so far.
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The Polar H7 Bluetooth Heart Rate Sensor & Fitness Tracker normally retails for $80, but is currently discounted to $35 on Amazon today only, providing a $45 or 56 percent discount.
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After a lengthy beta, Apple officially released iOS 10.3. Here is what is new and notable about the latest operating system for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, and Apple Watch.
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Move over Touch ID! Tapdo is a wearable fingerprint sensor that lets you map a variety of shortcuts for your different smart devices to various parts of your hand. Here's how it works.
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If you're lucky enough to have a large, valuable watch collection, you need somewhere to keep them safe and in good working order. This $36,000 Bluetooth-connected, leather-wrapped safe will do both.
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According to a recent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Samsung is considering outfitting a future smartwatch with a secondary display that runs along the rim of the body.
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The cool thing about Pebble's wears is that they allow for third-party support. The smartwatches can only hold a few apps, however, so we've picked 36 of favorite apps, games, and watch faces for you to choose from.
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Tag Heuer's luxury world of Swiss watches and the high-tech smarts of Intel have come together in the new Connected Modular 45 smartwatch, and you better believe the hype; this is a real Swiss smartwatch through and through.
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In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of it. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of the top 10 tech stories from this week.
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While we already know Swarovski will announce an Android Wear smartwatch "for her" at Baselworld, Movado just announced it will unveil a slew of devices at the annual watch and jewelry trade show. These devices won't launch until the fall of 2017.
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The Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) has announced an expanded Advanced Textiles (AT) program for its annual Expo, scheduled for Sept. 26-29, 2017 in New Orleans, La. Among the additions is a new Smart Fabrics Program designed to channel the excitement around smart fabrics into new product development, providing attendees with access to experts, materials and education.
This special program seeks to facilitate new partnerships, discussions and ideas; showcase innovative suppliers to the e-textiles market; and create common understandings among industry segments
Conference sessions
The program will include expanded offerings in the Advanced Textiles Conference, covering many types of technology that fall under the “smart fabrics” moniker. An E-Textiles Standards Roundtable, open to all, is scheduled for the morning of Sept. 28. The discussion will be moderated by representatives from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and provides a forum to bring together organizations that are creating standards, as well as others who are impacted by decisions that will be made in the future.
Show floor workshops
The E-Textiles Workshop, located on the Expo show floor, will serve as a central meeting area for participants to network and learn from each other. This designated area will launch a number of specific opportunities:
The AT Conference will offer four tracks: military, medical and testing, in addition to smart fabrics. Information on these offerings will be available on this site in the coming weeks, and you may visit http://ift.tt/2oezhAk and IFAIexpo.com/Smart for updated information.
The world of hybrid smartwatches is getting bigger, as more people realize they can combine classic watch style with some smart functionality. We've tried on newcomer Kronaby's range at Baselworld 2017.
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With plenty of experience in the world of smart wearables, Guess has finally launched its first full smartwatch -- the Guess Connect Touch with Android Wear 2.0. Guess's fashion brand know-how means there are plenty of styles for men and women.
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Today’s wearables may be useful for tracking the number of steps you’ve taken or calories burned, but soon, they may be able to help you keep tabs on another kind of activity -- your bank account.
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For a special edition Gear S3 smartwatch, Samsung looked back several centuries for inspiration, and came up with the Gear S3 Pocket Watch. It's a glorious piece of retro-cool tech, and only two exist in the world.
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Fossil announced a slate of new smartwatches at the Baselworld conference in 2017: The Q Venture, the Q Activist, the Q Explorist, and the Q Accomplice. They pack cutting-edge processors and the latest version Android Wear.
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Misfit revealed its first touchscreen, waterproof smartwatch at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show, and while it ran a proprietary operating system at the time, it now runs Android Wear.
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Baselworld 2017 is nearly here, and we're expecting to see a ton of great new smartwatches from the likes of Tag Heuer, Movado, and more. Here's everything we expect to see at the annual watch and jewelry trade show.
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Thync, the company that uses neurostimulation to change your mood, has announced the Thync Relax Pro, which unlike its first product, solely concentrates on relaxation, stress reduction, and better sleep.
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After announcing it at I/O 2016, Google is finally launching Android Wear 2.0, a major revamp that's meant to breathe new life into the company's smartwatch platform. Here's when you can expect it on your watch.
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Few smart devices are designed with the visually impaired in mind and touchscreens don't help the matter. The Dot however could change that, as the first smartwatch with a connected, braille interface.
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Kronaby's Swedish-designed hybrid smartwatch has plenty of technology inside, plus a battery that will last for two years. There are 24 configurations available across the four models.
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If you have an Apple Watch, you'll know how easy it is to take off the strap it came with, so why not buy yourself another one? There are many to choose from, so we've gathered the best ones we've seen so far.
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On July 25-26 the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference will be back in San Francisco. Many highlights will be awaiting you. Among them New York based company Celesstia Health. Their CEO Peter Mankowski will be on stage on July 26. Read our interview with Jessica Roberts – the “Geek girl” who started it all.
What’s the story behind Celesstia? Where is the idea coming from?
In late 2014, one of our co-founders lost his mother to Metastatic breast cancer. Driven by the grief of the loss of his mother and the desire to improve on diagnosis, accuracy & time, Louri got in touch with some of his former Blackberry co-workers. Together, this new team of scientists well versed in human and animal medical applications, and individuals from many other female-driven industries developed Celesstia. The mission? Give women a way to keep tabs on their own health and be alerted to any changes that could be cancerous.
How will the wearable component of Celesstia look like?
When thinking about the design for the Celesstia product we initially wanted to create a ‘Smart Bra’. When we started looking deeper into how many different types of bras are on the market, it became clear that we would never be able product line vast enough to suit each individual women’s preference. Thus, we created a solution designed to work comfortably underneath women’s existing bras. The Celesstia wearable consists of 2 thin silicone inserts that come in a variety of sizes (A-DD) and available in clear or nude to be worn discreetly and super comfortably with all electronics embedded in the silicone.
How can Celesstia help in the therapy and treatment of breast cancer?
One in eight women will get breast cancer, and approximately 40,000 women a year die from it in the U.S. — but up to tens of thousands of others will have false positives or be treated unnecessarily for lower-risk cancers. For women with dense breasts, mammograms not only expose the patient to radiation but are also fairly inaccurate at distinguishing between normal white cells and white cancerous cells.
In order to overcome some of these shortfalls of modern technology, we have created Celesstia to become a habit-forming product among at risk or recovering women. We wanted to give women a solution to make them familiar with their bodies in a way that is as simple and routine as putting on your socks in the morning. Celesstia, uses AI to learn regular biometric patterns in the patient’s body and sends an alert if there is any unusual activity detected. Meaning that using Celesstia doesn’t expose the patient’s body to any radiation, or painful tests.
What is your favorite Wearable product at the moment besides your own?
The Muse headband. Muse first grabbed our attention in 2015, when we first discovered them doing something that seemed very out of the ordinary. Instead of simply tracking what is happening in your body, communicate with your body and essentially change your stress and thought process. Celesstia, is a similar concept, but instead allows your body to communicate with you and give you alerts about changes that could be cancerous.
LG’s Watch Sport may have been the first Android Wear 2.0 smartwatch, but the Huawei Watch 2 Sport is the one to buy. Here’s our full review.
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Huawei has finally unveiled its latest pair of Android Wear watches, but which of the two new devices is right for you? Here, we pit the Huawei Watch 2 Sport and Huawei Watch 2 Classic against one another.
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An Apple Watch developer has figured out how to port the Gambatte Game Boy emulator to the hardware, creating a unique control scheme that takes advantage of the wearable's touchscreen.
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Swarovski has postponed the launch of its highly anticipated "smartwatch for women," a device we long expected to see at Baselworld 2017. The device has not been canceled, and it is still in development with Google and Qualcomm.
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You can call on Alexa and your smartphone's voice assistant with a Martian mVoice smartwatch, but the device also ditches features found in competitors. Can you really rely on voice for your smartwatch needs?
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It looks like ZTE might be preparing to enter the Android Wear smartwatch world with the ZTE Quartz, a smartwatch rumored to run the latest version of Google's Wear operating system. Here's everything we know about the ZTE Quartz so far.
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Stay fit and healthy with a GPS smartwatch. The Garmin Vivoactive normally retails for $250 but is currently discounted to $140 on Amazon giving you a $110 or 44 percent discount.
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Fashion brand Guess has announced the Guess Connect smartwatch range, new models powered by Android Wear 2.0 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear platform. The watches will come in styles suitable for men and women.
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Winner WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup 2017 – category Sport & Fitness
GaitUp SA is the winner of our Sport & Fitness category in the WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup. Developped in collaboration with Pomoca, the product PomocUp can track the data that matter to ski professionnals as distance, speed, number of kick turns. The Pomocup device is put on your ski thanks to a magnet, and synchronized in real-time with your smartphone.
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A month after the award ceremony, Alex Russell, VP Business Development of Gait Up SA, shared with us how significant this award was to the Swiss company GaitUp:
It feels great to be recognized by WT for our hard work bringing Pomocup to life. Winning the Sport & Fitness category raises awareness about what we’re doing, ultimately leading to new partnerships and products with Gait Up motion sensing technology inside.
Ski mountaineering is a historic sport in the midst of a modern day resurgence. Pomocup builds on this enthusiasm, by promoting performance, technique and overall excitement in the sport. Working with Pomoca from the start helped us build exactly what the users want.
Absolutely! It’s all about meeting your peers in the industry, networking with sponsors, and promoting your products. We look forward to being at the Innovation World Cup again in 2018!
Right now we’re fine tuning the software and collecting feedback from the first 50 to 100 beta users. The next important milestone is to ship Pomocup to our worldwide distributor network in time for the 2017/18 ski season.
More information about Pomocup on this website.
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GPS-equipped watches are convenient, but how do they work and why do their findings often differ? Here's everything you need to know, from their triangulation features to the various types of interference.
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Whether you want to play some air guitar with real sounds, or tune the music while you dance, Sony's Motion Sonic wearable is an interesting prototype that was shown off at this year's SXSW festival.
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On this live episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Opnwatr CEO Mary Lou Jepsen says it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Are you ready for wearable technology that can read you mind? It’s not as crazy as it sounds, entrepreneur Mary Lou Jepsen says.
Jepsen — the cofounder of One Laptop Per Child and a former executive at Google X and Facebook’s Oculus — is now the CEO of a company called Opnwatr, which she says is simultaneously making a “wearable MRI system” and “work[ing] on telepathy.” And those aren’t two separate products.
“If I throw you into an MRI machine right now, I can tell you what words you’re about to say,” Jepsen said on the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, which was recorded in front of a live audience at South By Southwest. “I can tell you what images are in your head. I can tell what music you’re thinking of. I can tell if you’re listening to me or not. That’s possible with an MRI, now.”
Opnwatr’s vision for the future is a wearable device like a ski cap or a shirt that can analyze things ranging from your thoughts to your health. And the possibilities — which Jepsen readily acknowledges could be both empowering and frightening — don’t stop there, she said.
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“If you have a thought of how to make a better object, you can just think it and it appears,” Jepsen said of the ski cap idea. “And then you can melt it down and make a new one.”
“Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make,” she added. “They’re way more creative. The input’s pretty good, but the output is constrained by our tongues and jaws moving and us typing. If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do.”
But there are, of course, major privacy implications to new technology like this. Jepsen said the world needs an “international bill of rights” to govern the rights of individuals before products like a wearable MRI cap become commonplace.
“Can the police make you wear it?” she asked. “Can the military make you wear it? Who owns your thoughts? Once you share them, can you delete them? What about filtering? Have you ever thought about something you didn’t want to say out loud? We have to make it so that it only works when we want to think into it.”
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Montblanc, the luxury goods company best known for its pens, has launched its first Android Wear smartwatch. It's called the Summit, and like most mountains, it's really rather large. We've tried it out.
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Thanks to a new Kickstarter project, you can take your favorite place and wear it, either as a ring or as a pendant, as a stunning geometric design. It's called YOU ARE HERE, and you can back it now.
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Tech companies are putting more effort into fitness tracking, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon. A new Apple patent has been discovered that suggests the company could one day start using AirPods for fitness tracking.
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This spring, Rhone will introduce GoldFusion, described as "a revolutionary new technology that infuses gold particles into Rhone's highest-performance fabrics." It promises to keep you cool and smelling fresh.
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The MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE will celebrate its 5th anniversary on the 14th & 15th of November 2017 at MEDICA 2017 in Dusseldorf Germany. Established in 2013 at MEDICA, the world’s largest medical trade show with more than 130,000 visitors and 5,000 exhibitors, the conference has been THE highlight of the trade fair for the past 4 years.
As a melting pot and a platform for industry professionals to connect healthcare, prevention and exercise medicine with innovative technologies, the conference aids to create new and breakthrough advancements. This cooperation platform fosters new exchange formats, new sport medical therapies, and innovative products for prevention, recovery and population health management.
The conference program hosts world-renowned industry professionals with people such as Mark Verstegen (President/Founder of EXOS), Andrea Eskau (6 x Paralympic Gold Medalist), Prof. Dr. Bernd Wolfarth (Director Sports Medicine, Head Physician of the German Olympic Team), Dr. Jonathan B. Clark, (Medical Director Red Bull Stratos Project) and Simon Drabble (Senior Director, adidas Digital Sport) amongst the many contributing to conference programs in past years.
The Call for Abstracts for the 5th MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE is now open. This is your opportunity to hit the stage and share your innovative idea, approach or technology to a high-level industry audience! Deadline for submissions is July 1. 2017, more information such as submission criteria can be found at http://ift.tt/2mw3daB
For any questions, please contact Matias Posio at m.posio@navispace.de or +49 8152 99 88 622
By collaborating with Visa, IBM will use its own Watson Internet of Things platform for businesses to add secure payment options to any internet-connected device. These days, that means anything from a car to even a shoe.
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HTC could be prepping a major new product launch. The company has begun teasing a launch for March 20 titled "Spring is coming." So what will we see? It could be a new phone, a new VR headset, or something else entirely.
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Fossil has announced the rollout of Android Wear 2.0 to its smartwatches -- including the Q Founder 2.0, Q Marshal, and Q Wander. Android Wear 2.0 brings a number of great updates, including stand-alone apps, better health tracking, and more.
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Often lose focus when you're trying to get work done? Mindset is a pair of headphones that comes equipped with an electroencephalogram, which is used to monitor your brainwaves in real time. It can tell when your mind is focused.
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Migraines are pulsating headaches, often on one side of the head. Physical activity may intensify the pain, but symptoms can vary from person to person and from one attack to the next. Three times as many women as men have them so I guess we are the lucky ones.
Some people with a migraine experience aura. The most common auras are visual, such as flickering lights, spots, or lines. Auras typically last between five minutes and an hour, with a 60-minute “skip phase” before the headache pain sets in, she says. Some patients have auras without a migraine-type headache or any headache at all. Waking up tired or having trouble falling asleep are common problems in people with migraines. What do these all symptoms mean? People who suffer from severe migraines could tell you that continue with your normal daily life is hard. Normal things such as going to work, exercise or simply cooking become impossible tasks. Now those times are over!
Theranica Bio-Electronics is developing the Nerivio Migra, a disposable neuromodulation patch designed to treat migraine headaches. The “smart” patch is designed to be applied at the onset of a migraine attack, to provide “rapid and significant pain relief.” Theranica patches (as well as other wearables in plan) are made of a single unit which is comprised of electrodes; a safe, low-powered battery; and a smart chip, developed and designed by the company. This chip is responsible not only for the creation of ENS/NMES pulses per the user’s definitions but it incorporates smart features like therapy efficiency control and safety mechanism. It utilizes Electronic Nerve Stimulation and/or neuromuscular electrical stimulation in conjunction with wireless communications technology – using each individual’s smartphone as the ENS/NMES devices, avoiding the need for additional wired electronic device. Using smartphone as an advanced ENS/NMES device enables the users to activate and control Theranica’s wearables over Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE), but also opens up the connection and access to the Internet.
Another drug-free migraine pain relief solution is Cefaly. It is FDA approved certified medical device designed to treat and prevent migraine headaches. Cefaly is the first cranial analgesic electrotherapeutic device to acquire ISO medical certification proven effective on migraine pain with no side effects. Most headaches and migraines involve the trigeminal nerve. Its superior branch ends at the exit of the eye socket, underneath the skin of the forehead. An adhesive electrode is positioned on the forehead and Cefaly connects to this. Through the electrode, Cefaly generates precise micro-impulses in order to stimulate the nerve endings of the trigeminal nerve. Neurostimulation of the trigeminal nerve with Cefaly® produces a relaxing effect. Regular repetition of this relaxing effect helps reduce the number of attacks of headache and migraine.
Last but not least we have VITOS . The focus of migraine therapy with VITOS is the activation of the parasympathetic part of the vegetative nervous system. This part of the nervous system is always active when we recover or rest – it is responsible for cell regeneration and metabolic processes. The stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system thus initiates the necessary regeneration processes of inflammatory areas and acts as a recovery accelerator. Neurostimulation with VITOS is used both as a migraine prophylaxis and as an acute attack.
Migraines are normally treated with medication which can lead to side effects from the use of it and the person becoming depend on pain killers. The solutions above are drug- free pain relief devices with no side effects that will help you to continue with your daily life even when suffering from a migraine.
The launch of new Android Wear-powered watches could boost overall smartwatch sales, according to an industry report. That's despite the fact that the average price of wearable is expected to increase.
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Adidas has decided that it isn't going to try and build the perfect fitness tracker for everyone, it's going to build the backbone for them. With that in mind, it has opened up the Runtastic platform to third parties.
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A number of fitness-centric smartwatches have been recently unveiled, including the Huawei Watch 2 Sport and the LG Watch Sport. But which of these two devices is better when it comes to power and performance?
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If you've been waiting for a great deal to come along before splashing out on an exotic Chinese import phone, then now could be the time. We've found five cool products at excellent prices through an online retailer.
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Restoring your Apple Watch means having to take it to the Apple Store -- which is a pain. This dongle, however, could change that. It's called the iBus, and the company behind it claims it will help you restore your device.
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Endurance athletes can already track a lot about themselves, but when it comes to cycling LEOMO believes its upcoming TYPE-R tracking system could be the most in-depth yet, with new motion tracking capabilities.
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Tag Heuer has announced its second smartwatch, the Connected Modular 45. As the name suggests, it's highly customizable for a total of 500 different potential looks for the $1,600 Android Wear 2.0 device.
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The search for the world’s best IoT and Wearable Tech solutions continues with the 2017 Innovation World Cup Series! Join us to discover the next game changing solutions in IoT and WT.
From the connected kitchen to complete security solutions, the Internet of Things continues to expand into every aspect of our lives and this year’s competition promises to bring a whole new level of innovation. The Innovation World Cup Series is combining over 13 years of Internet of Things and Wearable Technologies expertise to bring you the all new IOT/WT Innovation World Cup 2017/18. The competition kicked off at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 1st together with partners STMicroelectronics, LoRa Alliance, EBV Elektronik, Gemalto, BSH, AIQ Smart Clothing, Telit, Cicor, and VARTA Microbattery. With such fantastic support for our participants, we can’t wait to make their innovations visible to the world.
The world-leading competition in the Internet of Things and Wearable Technologies is looking for developers, innovative start-ups and researchers from all over the world to submit their breakthrough IOT/WT solutions in the categories:
Home | City | Lifestyle | Industrial | Transportation | Healthcare | Retail
As well as the special prizes:
The competition not only recognizes new and innovative IoT and WT solutions, but additionally gives participants the opportunity to win prizes worth over $500,000 and to join the global Innovation World Cup Series ecosystem! Registration is now open through the website http://ift.tt/2marKBT
Participation is free of charge.
Tag Heuer has set a launch date for its next smartwatch -- March 14. The watch will launch during a live-stream, and is expected to be one of the first to ship with Android Wear 2.0.
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Whether you like it or not, you are being watched -- but that's not to say there's nothing you can do about it. A new set of spectacles on Kickstarter might help you bamboozle even the most sophisticated facial-recognition tech.
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Designed to alter the way athletes communicate with each other, the Bonx Grip wearable walkie-talkie is a "game changer" for blind bikers.
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Two years after first teasing us with its line of connected clothing, Google and Levi's have put us out of our misery. The first piece to come out of Project Jacquard is the Commuter Trucker jacket.
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The Hideez Key 2 is a digital identity manager that allows you to do everything from store passwords to open doors to maintain a Bluetooth connection with your phone, laptop, or other device if it's stolen.
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Vivobarefoot partners with Sensoria to create a connected barefoot experience that aims to bring healthy feet back to the world.
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Plus: We play the new Mass Effect: Andromeda video game, and King Kong and friends return to theaters for a smashing good time.
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I admit it. I was drawn to advanced textiles because of “e-textiles.” That was the only kind of smart textile yet developed, at least that I knew about. I’ve since learned that there are many kinds of advanced textiles with “whiz-bang” appeal. In fact, just about every day I hear of a new technology, fiber or fabric; a new prototype; or a new application that uses a high-tech fabric in a completely novel way.
In the years since we launched this publication, we’ve covered a wonderful variety of developments in smart textiles, including:
And if I keep this up, this bulleted list will run into several pages! (Search “smart” on this site and you’ll see what I mean.)
One of the reasons the pace of innovation is so impressive is that innovators, including educational and research institutions, government agencies and industry, are banding together to collaborate for the benefit of all, and these joint efforts are having a meaningful impact. Examples from around the globe are noted in our feature, “Better together” by smart textiles expert Marie O’Mahony.
Honestly, the willingness of researchers to share their findings and work together amazes me – and advanced textiles are a stronger, more cohesive industry for it. Of course there are proprietary technologies and products, and the competition is not for the faint-hearted. But so many “firsts” are the result of collaboration.
Mahoney’s article is a great place to start with an overview and an update, but I hope you cruise through some of the other articles about smart fabric technologies and products that are available to you on this site. I think you’ll be dazzled, too.
Amazon is closing the week out strong with a variety of tech deals ranging from wearables to gaming accessories. Score discounts from top manufacturers, such as Apple, and enjoy discounts up to 61 percent off.
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“The alarm went off this morning around 5 am to let me know that my daughter had not taken a breath in 20+ seconds, I was able to wake her and she started breathing again”. This is a story of one of many parents that have experienced the benefits of using Snuza. We are very excited to have this South African baby monitoring company as one of our exhibitors at this year´s MEDICA. Please read a short interview with Greg Gallagher – a founder of the company who told us a bit more about Snuza.
1) What is Snuza and what sets it apart from other baby monitors out their today?
Snuza is an ISO 13485 certified company that produces a range of baby breathing monitors. We have developed the world’s first portable baby breathing monitor fully certified as a Class IIb Medical Device (93/42/EEC – 2007/47/EEC). It has the advantage of being small, battery powered, totally portable and easily attached, meaning parents are now able to monitor their babies wherever they may fall asleep. This has a major advantage over the under-mattress type monitors which are bulky, mains powered and have to be installed under a baby’s mattress, limiting their use to the crib and making it inconvenient to travel with the baby
2) You will be exhibiting with us at Medica 2017 where people will be able to check out your products live! What kind of partners is your company currently looking for?
We would be looking for distribution partners within the medical sector in Europe.
3) Around baby products there are always a lot of safety concerns. How are you addressing these concerns and make sure your products are completely save for the use with little humans?
We have many years of experience in high quality product design and all our designs are conducted with safety at the top of the priority list. This is evident in our meeting and exceeding the extremely stringent standards required by the European Medical Devices Directives, which are especially high for Class IIb devices. Our company culture also promotes high moral values, emphasising accountability, quality and responsibility, all which permeate through to the design culture.
4) Besides your own what is currently your favorite wearable device and why?
Apple Watch. It provides the most basic tools (tells the time) and some very useful tools (eg HR monitoring, voice-to-text messaging, etc) which are natively integrated into the iOS platform.
Winner WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup 2017 – category Gaming & Lifestyle
With Unlimited hand, the H2L is the winner of our Gaming & Lifestyle category in the WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup. The Unlimited Hand translates real hand and finger movements of VR player into virtual environments and the other way around. Thus, the player can interact and feel objects of a game. You just have to wear the Unlimited Hand on your forearm and the motion sensor will track your movements and the Electric Muscle Stimulation device will stimulate your muscles to give you feedback sensations from the game.
A month after the award ceremony, Ken Iwasaki, CEO of H2L, shared with us how significant this award was to the Japanese company H2L:
Glad as we were to be a finalist, we couldn’t believe it when we were announced as the Winner. Since other finalists in the Gaming & Lifestyle category did brilliantly as well, we look forward to maintaining our competitive advantage in the market.
With UnlimitedHand, not only can wearers manipulate the digital world with input gestures, they can also experience haptic feedback from the digital realm. UnlimitedHand makes it possible for us to effortlessly engage and interact with the digital world.
As user interfaces make a shift from GUI to VR, UnlimitedHand facilitates the development of intuitiveinteractions surpassing even the touch panel.
YES.
The products presented by the finalists were all top notch. We got to know some of the most courteous entrepreneurs from all around the world!
We announced our partnership with Arduino atHeart in WT2017. As of now, the device targets developers and hackers.
In order to expand our reach to consumers, we are aiming to enrich our selection of compatible content.
More information about Unlimited Hand on this website.
If you are interested about innovations, follow us in the next Innovation world cup for Digital Marketing!
Your smarts may originate in your brain, but that doesn't mean they can't manifest themselves in your feet. At least, not if Xiaomi has anything to say about it. The company has just released a pair of smart shoes.
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We spent time on the show floor at the recent London Wearable Technology show, finding the most unusual, fun, different, and downright mad new gadgets on display. Here are our five favorites from the show.
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A $100 bill can get you further than you might think, that is, so long as you know where to look. Check out our favorite tech for under $100, whether you're in the market for a walnut-accented pair of headphones or a virtual reality headset.
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While we already know Swarovski will announce an Android Wear smartwatch "for her" at Baselworld, Movado just announced it will unveil a slew of devices at the annual watch and jewelry trade show. These devices won't launch until the fall of 2017.
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Ruawalk is a Kickstarter project that helps you keep a consistent pace during walks. The circular wearable first needs to pair with your smartphone, and then you can clip it to your shoe.
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Part activity tracker and part smartwatch, the Huawei Fit’s standout feature is its heart rate monitor, which maintains a careful eye on your heart health on a daily basis. Does this make it worth wearing?
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In this viral video, CollegeHumor lays out a pretty good case.
The computers in science fiction movies like “Minority Report” are designed to look cool on film. But maybe we shouldn’t be making real computers that work that way.
Let CollegeHumor explain:
Although the actual design of the computer here is imaginary, real companies taking cues from sci-fi is very real. As I wrote two years ago, “Minority Report,” “The Matrix” and “Ready Player One” are frequently referenced in VR and AR circles.
And a sect of true AR believers already does its typing without a screen and keyboard, via wearable keyboard gloves that talk to head-mounted displays.
Personally, I’ll stick with my iPhone for now.
The 314Reactor electronics project blog has a post detailing how a user created a wearable running the ancient Windows 98 operating system. The device is based on the Raspberry Pi Model A+ board and a 2.5-inch touch-capable screen.
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You might not necessarily think of virtual reality as phone tech, but it nonetheless was out in full force at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We sought out the best the show had to offer.
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In a bid to improve sleep patterns, many people have turned turned to devices such as sleep trackers to better optimize their shut-eye. But a new case series suggests these devices might actually prompt sleep problems.
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Running into issues with Android Wear? Lucky for you, we've rounded up some of the more common Android Wear problems, along with some workarounds and potential solutions for solving them.
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MWC sets the trends for the mobile world each year, and this year, we've seen five big trends emerging: waterproof phones, nostalgic tech, TV tech in phones, no wearables, and the survival of the headphone jack.
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If you're in the market for an activity tracker, then the Garmin Vivofit 2 is now just $59 on Amazon. The second-generation Vivofit features several enhancements over the previous model, including a backlit display.
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Apple may be planning to integrate augmented reality capabilities like object recognition and facial detection into the iPhone's camera app. It could roll out in the coming months.
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The Clik, wireless earbuds from Manchester-based startup Mymanu, can translate between 37 languages offline, in real time. They launched on Kickstarter earlier this year, and are expected to enter mass production as soon as March.
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It's day three of Mobile World Congress, and the day Digital Trends presented its awards for the best products revealed at the show. We still found time to have some fun with the new Nokia 3310 though.
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Whoop is a unique wearable that constantly records your heart rate to determine what kind of shape you are in. That gives it features few can match, but it's not much fun to wear.
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Fashion brands aren’t about to miss out on the wearable tech craze, and Emporio Armani is the latest to come out with a smartwatch. However, it has made the sensible decision of creating a hybrid smartwatch. We’ve been wearing it, and here’s what it’s like.
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Step into the future in Pizza Hut's new smart shoes that, what else, order a pizza for you. Apparently, shoes are no longer made for walking you over to the pizza joint -- they're made for ensuring the pizza comes to you.
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If Snap Spectacles were a hat they may look like Google's patent for a smart hat with a built-in camera. The hat uses vibrations to tell the wearer which way to turn and uses bone vibrations for sound.
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Spacemap's Beoncam isn't your average 360-degree camera. It ships with a wrist strap that doubles as a companion smartphone screen, and will launch alongside a variety of accessories.
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