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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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Looking for a fun junk box hack? Have one of those old Nokia phones that (in contrast to your current smartphone) just won’t give up the ghost? Tinkernut has a nice hack for you: making a smart watch from an old cell phone. Specifically, this project details how to make a smart watch that displays time, date, incoming calls and texts from a Nokia 1100 cell phone display and a few other bits.
This 3-video series covers how to extract the display, connect it to an Arduino and conecting that to an Android phone over Bluetooth. We’ve seen a few …read more
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