Gadget lovers are slipping on fitness bands that track movement and buckling on smartwatches that let them check phone messages. Some brave souls are even donning Google's geeky-looking Glass eyewear. For the technology industry, this ...
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There's a sensor in a bra, in your socks, on your wrist, attached to your chest, in the ears: wearable tech is spreading all over the body. The growing use of embedded wearable devices connected to a smartphone is spawning a massive ...
Despite the hoopla, wearable gadgets like wristwatches for checking your text messages or eyeglasses that capture video are unlikely to make a splash with consumers anytime soon, given the clumsy designs, high prices and technological ...
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Archos is showing two low-cost Android-based smartphones this week at the International CES trade show, including the 45 Helium 4G, which is priced at US$200 without a contract. One of the major smartphone trends this year is expected to ...
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Will 2014 be remembered as the year wearable computing took off? Upstart entrepreneurs and major manufacturers such as Samsung, Qualcomm and Sony certainly hope so. Gadgets that you snap, buckle or fasten to your body are already ...
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Wearable gadgets, curved smartphones and new game consoles defined technology in 2013. That's why it's no surprise they make up the bulk of our top 10 devices of the year. Some of these devices are essentially much better versions of ...
If your loved ones are looking for an easy way to watch Internet content on their big-screen TVs, Google's Chromecast ($35) is an inexpensive choice. Owners use their smartphones, tablets or computers as a remote control to tune in Netflix, ...
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Steve Ballmer’s audacious vision of “One Microsoft, all the time,” delivering a single, seamless user experience across a wide range of devices, will not be achieved without digital bloodshed. Windows will die, a ...
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Chinese handset maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartwatch next year, making it the latest company to throw its hat into the emerging gadget segment. ZTE said on Monday that it was preparing the device, and pointed to the first quarter ...
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Intel, whose chips have long gone into PCs, servers and mobile devices, has begun chasing the market for the so-called “Internet of things” with new low-power chips and software for connected devices and data-gathering ...
In a new twist on strange brew, an Intel engineer Thursday showed off a project using wine to power a microprocessor. The engineer poured red wine into a glass containing circuitry on two metal boards during a keynote by Genevieve Bell, ...
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Intel is planning a new range of low-power-consumption microprocessors intended to challenge ARM-based rivals in embedded and wearable computing. The new Quark range of Atom microprocessors will weigh in at one-fifth of the size of ...
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Samsung today unveiled a smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, and also a new version of its Note smartphone. The new devices were demonstrated to the media today at tech trade show IFA Berlin by the company's president Gregory Lee. Further ...
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Sony has introduced its SmartWatch 2 but it's about to get some serious competition if rumours are correct. Two sources have told Bloomberg that the Galaxy Gear will launch on 4 September, just before IFA kicksoff. That places the ...
With Apple's iWatch and several competing smartwatches from major manufacturers in the works, some analysts question whether such wearable technology will gain popularity among consumers. The smartwatch market is especially questionable ...
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