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Digital watches are a pretty neat idea, and are a great way to experiment with designing and building low-power circuits. That’s what [Eric Min] did with this neat smart watch build. It’s based around an nRF52832 SoC that does all of the heavy lifting, including connecting to a smartphone to …read more
By Uzair Amir
Technology is advancing day by day to make human life better and safe. This advancement in the technological fields are beneficial if used positively and can be extremely harmful when used in a negative way. It’s in the user’s hand whethe… Continue reading 7 Times Apple Watch Saved Lives
Researchers have identified multiple security issues with this Lenovo smartwatch. Continue reading Lenovo Watch X Riddled with Security Vulnerabilities
A friend of mine offered me a Lenovo Watch X – which costs around €60 – in return for helping him with a security project. I was impressed with the design and the quality of the watch. Of course, I also immediately wanted to test its … Continue reading Your Lenovo Watch X Is Watching You & Sharing What It Learns
Location data extracted from the athletic hitman’s Garmin GPS watch and TomTom sat nav led to his conviction in two gangland murders. Continue reading Bicycle-riding hitman convicted with Garmin GPS watch location data
Fitbit’s recently-launched Versa is off to a strong start and has outsold Samsung, Garmin and Fossil smartwatches combined in North America.
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We’re all slowly getting used to the idea of wearable technology, fabulous flops like the creepy Google Glass notwithstanding. But the big problem with tiny tech is in finding the real estate for user interfaces. Sure, we can make it tiny, but human fingers aren’t getting any smaller, and eyeballs can only resolve so much fine detail.
So how do we make wearables more usable? According to Carnegie-Mellon researcher [Chris Harrison], one way is to turn the wearer into the display and the input device (PDF link). More specifically, his LumiWatch projects a touch-responsive display onto the forearm of the …read more
Continue reading Roll Up Your Sleeve, Watch a Video with This Smart Watch Forearm Projector
In the 1950s, artwork of what the future would look like included flying cars and streamlined buildings reaching for the sky. In the 60s we were heading for the Moon. When digital watches came along in the 70s, it seemed like a natural step away from rotating mechanical hands to space age, electrically written digits in futuristic script.
But little did we know that digital watches had existed before and that our interest in digital watches would fade only to be reborn in the age of smartphones.
In 1883, Austrian inventor Josef Pallweber patented his idea for …read more
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Google controls the dominant personal computing platform. So why isn’t Android Wear even remotely successful?
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Fitbit, the world’s biggest wearables maker, today announced its first true smart watch, the Ionic. Plus, some other hardware and services offerings.
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