THE VERGE - Feb 26 - The updated website will let users pick from the various options that are already available for the Moto 360. For casings, Motorola will offer black, silver, and champagne gold colors, while the band options will be expanded. There will be two sizes each of leather and metal bands and a new single-link metal band. Finally, Motorola will release a few new watch faces, one of which you can set as the default from the website when you place your order.
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GTX Corp: The Next Big Step In Wearables
EQUITIES.COM - Feb 26 - The company that specializes in GPS devices for shoes that help track people with cognitive disorders among a broad set of applications has amassed over 80 patents, between licensed and their own inventions. This IP portfolio will give them certain competitive advantages, especially if younger smaller players want to come in. And makes them an attractive proposition for the larger companies.
Broadcom's New Platform To Extend Wearable Battery Life
ZACKS - Feb 26 - The platform reduces power consumption of smartwatches and other devices that run on Google's Android Wear operating system for wearable devices by as much as 40%. It also gives OEMs more features that can be added to their offerings, like GPS with sensor hub processing and wireless charging support.
Jawbone's Manufacturing Woes For UP3
TECH CRUNCH - Feb 26 - According to a Jawbone spokesperson, the company is having issues maintaining quality when scaling the manufacturing up to the levels it needs to bring the device to market.
High-end Swiss Watchmakers Getting Smar
CNET - Feb 26 - Watchmakers Frederique Constant, Mondaine and Alpina and motion-tracking software company Fullpower have announced the MMT Horological smartwatch platform, which hopes to bridge the gap between old-school traditional quartz watches and the smartwatches of the future. The three luxury watch brands unveiled 3 new watches, each with different styles and finishes, that keep track of movement and sleep.
Pebble Previews New SDK
READ WRITE - Feb 26 - With SDK 3.0, the company touts the ease with which developers will be able to create new apps for Pebble Time, or let older apps take advantage of the new color screen. The preview features documentation for the new Timeline APIs, an emulator to test apps and a migration guide, to help them in the process. Pebble Time has nabbed nearly 50K backers who have pledged more than $10.5M in two days, with 29 more to go.
LG Watch Urbane Will Support LTE But Won’t Run Android Wear
TECH CRUNCH - Feb 26 - LG’s decision to go beyond the Google platform appears to have been made to differentiate its smartwatch from the existing competition. With LTE cellular access, the watch will function just like a phone. Beyond making and receiving calls and sending text messages, LG said the device will be able to send walkie-talkie-style short voice messages.
Practice CoPilot Brings iBeacons To Eye Care Practices
GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Feb 25 - Maestro is the first platform of its kind developed specifically for the eye care industry. Signals transmitted by Bluetooth beacons strategically placed inside each practice work in conjunction with mobile technology to pin point the exact location of every patient, staff and doctor in the practice. Features like patient color coding provide staff with real time information about how long each patient has been waiting.
Israelis Create AR Goggles For Snowboarders & Skiers
SHALOM LIFE - Feb 25 - A Tel Aviv-based company, RideOn, has already raised $95K on an Indiegogo campaign that was aimed at raising $75K by March 21st. The goggles have "a see-through display that projects AR layers and features on the snow as if they’re floating 15 feet in front of you."
by Daniel Koren
See full article at Shalom Life
Magic Leap CEO: AR Will Make Phone Screens Obsolete
NY DAILY NEWS - Feb 25 - Abovitz shared his vision of a future where his company's technology—which is focused on using augmented reality to enhance the real world by creating virtual 3-D objects—will make users leave behind smartphones and transition into using AR headsets.
Johnnie Walker 'Smart' Whiskey Bottle
NY DAILY NEWS - Feb 25 - Alcohol supplier Diageo partnered with Thinfilm smart systems developer to create a smart bottle that provides digital information by using printed sensor tags that can be detected by smartphones with near field communication. When the consumer taps their phone to the bottle, they would be informed if the bottle is authentic and if it's sealed or open. The smart tags would also provide other digital information such as cocktail recipes and promotional offers.
Vuzix Partners With Pristine's EyeSight Platform
BETA NEWS - Feb 25 - Customers taking advantage of the combined Pristine and Vuzix platform will benefit from impressive video quality, strong integrations into safety goggles and a vertically adjustable camera, useful for surgery and hands-on repair tasks.
U.S. Adults Want To Use Apps, Wearables For Health Management
IHEALTH BEAT - Feb 25 - About 66% of U.S. adults are interested in using a mobile apps to help manage their health, while nearly 80% are willing to use a wearable device for the same purpose, according to a survey by Makovsky Health and Kelton. Respondents ages 18 to 34 were more than twice as likely as respondents older than 65 to express interest in using a mobile app for health management.
UNICEF Kid Power Promotes Fitness And Saving Lives
MASHABLE - Feb 25 - The UNICEF Kid Power program encourages American elementary school students to stay active with a special fitness band. Each participant tracks his or her steps, racking up points that are then converted into life-saving nutrition packets for malnourished children in developing countries.
Google In Talks With Jawbone
APPLE INSIDER - Feb 25 - Google is reportedly in preliminary talks to buy a stake in Jawbone, as the Internet search giant moves further into the wearable device industry. Sources with knowledge of the talks describe Google's interest in Jawbone as a "strategic investment," not a wholesale buyout.
Wearable Camera Market Comes Into Focus
EQUITIES - Feb 24 - Digital Ally has achieved an important milestone - they received GSA status, which means the US Government becomes a client. Federal and local law enforcement will all be using wearable cameras in the near future, making this an important contract to Digital Ally.
Kinetic Wearable Aims To Eliminate Workplace Injuries
FEIRCEMOBILEIT - Feb 24 - The wearable has both a wristband and back component, which can communicate with each other via sensors and record data on whether or not the worker is lifting properly. If an employee is lifting a box incorrectly, the wristband will light up a warning of injury risk.
Humanyze Announces $1M In Seed Funding
TECH CRUNCH - Feb 24 - A unique new firm spawned in the MIT Media Lab, has developed a system that uses a smart employee badge to collect employee behavioral data, which it links to specific metrics with the goal of improving business performance revealed funding was led by Romulus Capital with contributions from Boston Seed and dunnhumby Ventures.
Amputees Become Cyborgs Through 'Bionic Reconstruction'
CNET - Feb 24 - Three men in Austria have become the first in the world to have been given mind-controlled prosthetic limbs through a new technique called "bionic reconstruction." The technique combines selective nerve and muscle transfers, elective amputation and replacement with an advanced robotic prosthesis.
Meet The New Pebble Time
READWRITE - Feb 24 - The new software and its new companion product, dubbed Pebble Time, is a progression of the Pebbles that came before, with a color display, on-screen animations and a brand-new microphone—all stuffed into a device that’s 20% thinner. The new Pebble—like the old one—will still last about a week between charges.
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