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by Norbert Hildebrand
Just a few weeks ago the Swatch Group announced the Touch Zero One, its first Swatch smartwatch. We recently reported on the new smartwatch and the near field communication aspect in a short article …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Wearables
by Tom Allen
Lenovo (Motorola’s new owner) CEO Yang Yuanqing appears to have pre-empted an official announcement of a next-generation Moto 360 smartwatch, by sharing a picture on his Weibo account. Yang alluded to the smartwatch in …
Tags:Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 13
by Tom Allen
Will.i.am launched a ‘smart cuff’ last year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42), and has now worked with fashion brand Gucci to develop another. The smartband, like Will.i.am’s Puls, is a standalone product that …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Wearables
by Tom Allen
Geneva-based Frederique Constant has unveiled a smartwatch with Swiss mechanisms and an analogue face. The Horological Smartwatch uses the MotionX platform, developed by Fullpower. MotionX is described as ‘tightly coupled firmware, smartphone applications and …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Switzerland| Vol 22 - Issue 13
by Tom Allen
Vector’s smartwatch, which got significant coverage recently for the claimed 30-day battery life (Vector Claims Month-Long Battery), has been unveiled at Baselworld. The watch achieves its long life using a monochrome memory LCD display …
Tags:Memory LCD| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 13
by Helen Vince
TAG Heuer, Google and Intel have announced a partnership to launch a Swiss smartwatch powered by Intel technology and Android Wear. The effort signifies a new era of collaboration between Swiss watchmakers and Silicon …
Tags:Google| Intel| Smartwatches
by Tom Allen
Tag Heuer, the Swiss watch manufacturer, has announced a partnership with Intel and Google to launch a smartwatch based on Android Wear. The watch will be launched this year. Jean-Claude Biver, president of Tag …
Tags:Android Wear| Apple| Google Glass| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Switzerland| Vol 22 - Issue 12
by Tom Allen
We covered the Neptune Duo handheld display/smartwatch concept last month (Neptune Reverses Watch/Phone Paradigm), and the project has now reached Indiegogo – with a few changes. The Neptune Suite adds another peripheral: a 10″ …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 12
by Tom Allen
The World Customs Organisation in Belgium has decided that Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch is a ‘mobile telecommunications’ device, rather than a smartwatch. The decision means that the product can be exported and imported between …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 12
by Tom Allen
Avnet Embedded is now stocking a 2.2″ transflective TFT-LCD module from Logic Technologies in EMEA. Under high ambient light, the (LED) backlight is not required. The LTTD240320022-L3-TF will be available for at least three …
Tags:Convertible PCs| Hisense| LCD Modules| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Samsung| Smartphones| Smartwatches| toshiba| Vaio| Vol 22 - Issue 12
by Tom Allen
Swiss watch maker Breitling has taken the step to produce a ‘smartwatch’ (of sorts) called the B55 Connected. It is an analogue chronograph with a digital display, able to connect to a mobile phone …
Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 12
by Tom Allen
Hayek praised the Apple Watch, saying that there is room for both Apple and Swatch in the marketSwatch claims to have worked around the limitations of smartwatches – small screens, low battery life and …
Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 12
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