wearables
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I Miss Microsoft’s Smartwatches That Were Too Smart for Their Time
Apple was the first company to make smartwatches a product consumers actually wanted, but there was a time, not too long ago, when Microsoft could have defined the future of wearables. The company’s SPOT platform took a deceptively simple but clever approach to wireless connectivity years before technologies like Bluetooth, wifi, and even LTE were…
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Smartwatch Hack Turns The Back Of Your Hand Into A Canvas For Making Tiny Paintings
What makes smartwatches so useful—quick access to info through a small device always on your wrist—also makes them challenging for other uses. To overcome the limitations of such a small screen, researchers from Leibniz University Hannover created a special stylus that turns the back of a wearer’s hand into a larger area for doodling.
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Wear OS Smartwatches Will Now Remind You To Wash Your Damn Hands
Washing your hands is a basic front-line defence against not only the novel coronavirus, but you know, a whole host of germs and general nastiness. And apparently, a disturbing number of people don’t do it as often as they should. To help the crustiest among us to wash their damn hands in this dire time,…
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Timex’s New GPS Smartwatch Ain’t Cute, But It’s Cheap
When Timex announced earlier this year that it was getting back into the smartwatch game, I was a little perplexed. That’s mainly because, at a glance, the new Ironman GPS R300 looks much more like the kind of smartwatch-fitness tracker hybrid that was popular back in 2016 than a device you’d relaunch a product line…