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Casio’s Smartwatch Can Take a Beating

by Tom Allen

For the last two years, Casio’s press conference has been disappointingly light on display news – so we were happy to see a new smartwatch being announced, called the WSD-F10. Kazuhiro Kashio, president and …

Toshiba Expands Line-up of ApP Lite™ Processor Family for Wearable Applications

by Isaac Oburu

Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of “TZ1201XBG”, an application processor for wearable devices, as the latest addition to its ApP Lite™ family for the Internet of Things (IoT). Samples of the TZ1201XBG ApP …

Tags:Internet of Things IOT| Semiconductors| toshiba| Wearables

Volvo/Microsoft Enable Knight Rider!

by Tom Allen

Volvo and Microsoft have expanded their partnership, several months after first announcing it using Hololens (Volvo Works With Microsoft’s Hololens). Owners of certain Volvo cars will be able to talk to their vehicles through …

Kopin Unveils World’s Smallest Smart Glass Display

by Isaac Oburu

Kopin Corporation, a leading developer of innovative wearable computing technologies and solutions, today announced the world’s smallest smart glass display. The PupilTM display module with only 2mm height is part of Kopin’s VistaTM portfolio …

Tags:Kopin| Wearables

Falling Asleep at the TV No Problem With Netflix

by Tom Allen

The Christmas period is a time when many of us relax in front of the TV. Too much relaxation, of course, means that we’ll fall asleep and miss half the show. Netflix has an …

Samsung Addresses a Growing Mobile Health Market with Industry’s First Smart Bio-Processor

by Isaac Oburu

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it is addressing the growing trend of quantified health with an all-in-one advanced system logic chip for the health-oriented wearables …

Tags:Health and Safety| Samsung| Semiconductors| Wearable Market| Wearables

LeTV Sells $20 VR Headset

by Tom Allen

A Bluetooth control appears in some marketing material, but it is currently unclear as to whether this will be bundled with the device.LeTV has released a new VR headset in Asia called the COOL1. …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 52| Wearables

TV Shopping Pushes Acer Sales at Christmas

by Tom Allen

Acer has sold 70,000 units of its Liquid Leap smartband (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 18) in the USA, during a 24-hour promotion with a TV shopping channel earlier this month.

Paper Planes Become Cheap Drones

by Tom Allen

PowerUp FPV is a project that recently – and quickly – beat its funding goal on Kickstarter, by almost 300%. The toy, built in collaboration with drone maker Parrot, is a propeller and camera …

50% of Consumers Will Use Mobile Payments by 2018

by Tom Allen

Mobile payments are gaining traction in developed countries, says Gartner; half of consumers in mature markets are expected to use smartphones or wearables for mobile payments by 2018. The trend is especially prominent in …

Car Displays as the New “Wearable” Device

by Steve Sechrist

Admittedly, this may be a bit of a stretch but perhaps the next revolution in wearable devices is as close as your garage. That car (or pickup truck) we climb into every day could …

Tags:Apple| Automotive| Mobile Apps| Vol 22 - Issue 50| Wearables

Microsoft Developing “Smart Ring” Technology

by Arthur Berman

Here are two problems. The first is that some devices (think smartwatches and wristbands) have a display screen with a really small surface area. The limiting case of this condition is the smart glass …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Microsoft| Vol 22 - Issue 50| Wearables