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Google Aquihires Smartwatch Developer of Alexa-Based Cronologics

December 13, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

cowatchAndroid Wear 2.0 is late — not that anyone seems to be panting after it. So Google has bought out a company called iMCO, which just shipped a shipped a smartwatch that used Amazon’s Alexa voice recognition engine.

The CoWatch runs an Android-based OS called Cronologics. It does the usual things that you expect a smartwatch to do, although reports are that the $299 CoWatch was a pretty ungainly thing. Voice response on a watch is not unusual, although the CoWatch was the first to use Alexa, which Amazon is licensing pretty promiscuously across a wide range of devices.

If you’re interested, you can apparently still get CoWatches on Amazon.

Last updated by Dan Rosenbaum on February 1, 2017.

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