The Inside Word on Wearables and Wearable Technology
Every year, the management of Wearable Tech Insider goes off the grid into the land of fringe cell service and 28.8 kbps modem lines. We bring a stack of books, maybe a few Maker Shed projects, sit by a lake with family, and cook a lot.
That’s this week. We’ll be checking in to make sure the world hasn’t ended — the latest iWatch rumor does not qualify — and will post accordingly. Expect regular operations to resume August 4. Play nice while we’re gone.
The relationship between Google and Samsung is showing signs of being the tech world’s Next Big Soap Opera. Paul Grey at Displaysearch thinks Samsung is coming back around to Android for its wristware, after having deployed the open-source Tizen OS for its Gear line. We don’t think he’s got it right, and that Samsung’s flirtation […]
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The Apple iWatch (or whatever it’s going to be called) may well be a wristband with sensors and a radio in it, and an insertable (and presumably replaceable) display module that gets snapped in to be the device’s face. That’s what you’d gather from US Patent 8,787,006, which AppleInsider spotted today. The specific claims are […]
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The company formally known as Heapsylon, makers of the Sensoria smart clothing, has closed a $5 million Series A funding, raised entirely from the large publicly traded Italian consulting company Reply SpA. As part of the deal, which values the company at $25 million, the company changed its name to that of its product: Sensoria […]
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Misfit aside, no one ever accused wearable technology of being pretty, and it’s that lack of glitz that’s supposedly keeping women away from wearables. (We haven’t noticed that, particularly, but let’s go with it anyway.) Designer Tory Burch and Fitbit are collaborating on some bright shiny holders that the doodad for the Fitbit Flex can […]
Continue reading...Technical standards are terribly important; without them, everything is proprietary. Everyday things like plugs and outlets? There’s standards for that. And Ethernet didn’t take over the world until the IEEE 802 standards got set. You can’t have an ecosystem without standards. That’s why it’s so important that the IEEE (the Institute for Electronic and Electrical […]
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Misfit, maker of the Shine activity tracker, has struck a deal with Beddit, maker of the eponymous sleep tracker, and is now selling the devices. The Beddit is a thin strip-like device that fits — undetectably, they say — under your mattress and keeps track of your movement in bed. The device claims to track […]
Continue reading...The idea of using a wristband as an identity token in the hospitality industry is not quite new; Disney’s using it quite effectively as MagicBands at Walt Disney World. Now, the folks putting on the Lollapalooza music festival this summer in Chicago are doing something similar: giving attendees wristbands that can be linked to credit cards. […]
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