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crunchwear · 9 years
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This Cybernetic Arm is Cheap, Useful and Interacts With Your Phone
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This Cybernetic Arm is Cheap, Useful and Interacts With Your Phone
We talk a lot here about wearable technology. That usually includes stuff you put on your body, like watches, armbands or, even, some sort of glasses technology developed in secret by a popular search engine company. However, what about technology that actually act as part of your body?...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Vector Smartwatches Promise Absurdly Great Battery Life
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Vector Smartwatches Promise Absurdly Great Battery Life
One of the biggest mysteries regarding wearable technology is how companies are going to keep adding features, along with the requisite computing power, while keeping the battery life up. Apple, with their oft-hyped Watch, is going to just ignore it, creating a gadget that needs to be charged...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Neptune Announces Bizarre Wristworn Computer Thingamajig
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Neptune Announces Bizarre Wristworn Computer Thingamajig
It’s a sign that wearable technology is becoming more mainstream that, you know, most announcements of new products are companies trying to play catch up with pre-existing products. Heck, you could even argue a case that the esteemed, and forthcoming, Apple Watch doesn’t bring...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Everywear Games is the First Game Company Dedicated to Wearable Tech
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Everywear Games is the First Game Company Dedicated to Wearable Tech
As wearable technology creeps its way toward mainstream acceptance, there is a growing question of what sort of software will accompany the devices. After all, porting existing software and calling it a day may work for some companies, but many other companies are only going to be able to drum...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Xiaomi and Li-Ning Announce Pair of Smart Sneakers
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Xiaomi and Li-Ning Announce Pair of Smart Sneakers
Everything is smart nowadays. We have smart watches, there are smartphones in our pockets and smart bands on your wrists. However, one obvious choice for smart-dom has, thus far, remained silent. Sure, there have been some quiet murmurings of smart sneakers coming to take over our feet, but...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Record visitor and exhibitor numbers for The Wearable Technology Show
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Record visitor and exhibitor numbers for The Wearable Technology Show
The Evolve Media Group announced today that visitor and exhibitor numbers for the second Wearable Technology Show – the world’s biggest dedicated wearables event – both rose by 170 per cent. A total of 3,872 people attended the event, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday at ExCeL in London. ...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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You wear it well!
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You wear it well!
Wearable technology is progressing so fast that it’s easy to get bogged down in the technology and associated facts and figures — the gadgets, the sensors and the data volumes they are going to generate. All interesting to a point, but actually what difference can and will wearable technology mak...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Withings lead the way at The Wearables 2015
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Withings lead the way at The Wearables 2015
Withings has been crowned Overall Wearable Winner at the Wearables 2015 awards this evening. Sponsored by IBM, The Wearables are the leading awards in the wearables market. Now in their second year, the eight category winners were unveiled at the Wearable Technology Show, the world’s biggest d...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Now You Can Strap Nodes to Your Head to Control Drones
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Now You Can Strap Nodes to Your Head to Control Drones
Drones. That’s a highly contentious word nowadays. Not only does it invoke thoughts of bombs being dropped on faraway lands, but it also makes one think of one’s neighbor spying on them with something they bought on Amazon for 600 bucks. However, the world of consumer drones has...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Withings Activité Tracker is A Beautiful Looking Timepiece
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Withings Activité Tracker is A Beautiful Looking Timepiece
The future of wearables is, indeed, a future in which every aspect of our health is constantly monitored and tracked for even the most minute of discrepancies. This future isn’t here yet, however, with most vitality trackers settling on keeping an eye on how much you’ve exercised or...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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It Looks Like Valve is Getting Into the VR Headset Game
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It Looks Like Valve is Getting Into the VR Headset Game
Valve. They were once a software company known for game-changing hits in the genre of first person shooters. Then, against all odds, they managed to completely reinvent how people buy game software online. Anyone who has played a PC game in the past five years has, probably, bought that game...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Pebble Color Smartwatch is Breaking All Kickstarter Records
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Pebble Color Smartwatch is Breaking All Kickstarter Records
Pebble pretty much started this whole smartwatch game, back when their original Pebble branded watch landed on Kickstarter a few years ago. Since then, the company has amped up their brand with the fancier Steel variant, but fans have long wondered when they would go back to the drawing board...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Ten reasons to be at the world's biggest event for wearables
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Ten reasons to be at the world's biggest event for wearables
1. The biggest wearables event in the world The Wearable Technology Show is the biggest dedicated wearable technology event in the world with over 100 exhibitors and 200 speakers taking part in the conference and expo over two days – 10-11 March 2015, at ExCeL, London. 2. See the future of the w...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Acticheck Assure is a New Kind of Personal Alert System
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Acticheck Assure is a New Kind of Personal Alert System
Contrary to unpopular belief, the world is not always a fuzzy and super safe place. Bad things happen to good people all of the time. That’s why things like pizza and ice cream exist, for us to drown our sorrows should the need arise. In all seriousness, that’s why doctors and also...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Here is a Smartwatch Designed to Keep You Awake
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Here is a Smartwatch Designed to Keep You Awake
Ah, the age old question of how to stay awake throughout eternal days filled with sameness. Some people use coffee (most people use coffee.) Some people get hooked on illicit drugs and end up a cautionary tale on a Law and Order episode. Some people hire other people to smack them whenever...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Seer AR Helmet is Big, Bulky and Pretty Brilliant
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Seer AR Helmet is Big, Bulky and Pretty Brilliant
After the PR failures of Google Glass, companies involved in augmented reality technologies want to steer clear of making something stick out on your face the way Glass tended to do. The obvious way to go about this is to shrink the tech, making it imperceptible to the human eye. You can do...
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crunchwear · 9 years
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Is Google Glass Going to Get a Full Redesign? Probably
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Is Google Glass Going to Get a Full Redesign? Probably
It wasn’t so long ago, couple of years really, that Google Glass showed us the total possibility of wearable technology. A device you wear on your face that projects fake stuff onto the real world? Awesome! The press, and public, went absolutely bananas. Then, unfortunately, the company...
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