You might want to mark your calendar for November 9, because that's apparently when Tag Heuer is going to set a new top price point for Android Wear watches. Several reports gathered by Ars Technica point to that date and an $1800 price tag for an upgradeable watch powered by an Intel SoC. There's a web site that counts down to the launch date, but have patience because it … [Read more...]
TAG Heuer Thinks That Maybe Wearables Are An OK Idea After All
Swiss watchmakers have this love/hate relationship with wearable tech. They pretty unanimously dismissed it. Now they're coming around, possibly spurred by Apple's hiring away Patrick Pruniaux, TAG Heuer's VP of sales. Now, the head of LMVH's watch business Jean-Claude Biver, says TAG Heuer is interested in making a wearable device, but that it mustn't copy the Apple … [Read more...]
Five Small Items in an Apple Watch Roundup
There's a bunch of little pieces in the news about the Apple Watch, none of them really worth their own abstract. So we're pulling them all into one briefing: -- Two hospitals will be experimenting with Apple's HealthKit software, coming at the end of this week in iOS8. Stanford University Hospital is working with Apple on bloodlessly measuring glucose levels. And Duke … [Read more...]