Tag Archives: wearable

Let’s be real for a second: most smartwatches are deeply boring to behold in person. Even in the remarkably staid standards of “real” horology—where the 50-year-old AP Royal Oak still counts as a hype watch—it took half a decade for most new wearables to coalesce around exactly the same aesthetic. You know the one: all-black, chunky build, wouldn’t be seen dead in it outside of a half marathon. So as much as Google’s Pixel Watch might not be a perfect smartwatch, it does deserve… Source link

Google has yet to launch its first smartwatch, but the company may already be working on the next steps for its wearable plans. According to a Protocol report, Google is planning to integrate fitness trackers into Google TV and Android TV as part of a broader push to strengthen its product ecosystem. The question is whether the historically fragmented Wear OS platform is up for the challenge. The company purportedly laid out the plans at a closed-door event with its TV partners, Protocol… Source link

The company whose chips power Facebook’s Oculus virtual-reality headset has already tapped into the metaverse opportunity. Now Qualcomm’s CEO says glasses could eventually be as widespread as smartphones.  Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon knows smartphones well. The company’s main business is providing semiconductors for those devices. As Apple turns toward manufacturing its own chips for its phones, Qualcomm has been working on diversifying its revenue into products and services for the… Source link

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have enjoyed a breakout year, with third-quarter sales delivering an absolute exclamation point at $10.7 billion. And yet, despite that eightfold increase from $1.2 billion in the second quarter, NFTs are just getting started if you believe advocates who predict use cases for the technology are about to stretch into new industries far beyond digital art. The fashion industry is providing the latest mind-bending example of just that. Fashion juggernauts, like Dolce… Source link

Ashish Bhatia Contributor Facebook recently announced its highly anticipated wearable sunglasses that can record video from a user’s perspective. Despite many of our legitimately squeamish reactions to this new product, one of Facebook’s decisions in this launch is likely to make it a success where Google Glass failed. Taking a page from the business school curriculum, Facebook leveraged an effectual approach to its launch by partnering with… Source link

This week was supposed to be the first day of Google’s big reentry into flagship smartwatches. Samsung is back on board after years of Tizen-based wearables, with its new Galaxy Watch 4 that runs the new, revitalized Wear OS 3. It’s the smartwatch OS that merges the best of Google and Samsung’s discrete platforms together. But there was just one issue: Google was strangely absent from the proceedings. In fact, aside from a few oblique mentions of working with Google on the… Source link

Samsung’s Mobile World Congress presser was, once again, all about wearables. The big news at this evening’s (or afternoon’s, timezone dependent) event was our best look yet at a redesigned interface for the company’s line of Galaxy Watches. One UI Watch – which takes its name from the Galaxy mobile interface — will share a design language with the one found on the company’s line of Galaxy phones. The upcoming One UI Watch will debut at an upcoming Unpacked event later… Source link