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Rufus Labs Wants to Replace Smartphones – and Might

by Tom Allen

The Rufus Cuff, from Rufus Labs, was funded on Indiegogo last year, and is almost ready to start shipping. Set to reach customers early next year, the wearable is designed to be the first …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 50| Wearables

Big Apple Buddy Brings Band to Britain

by Tom Allen

Customers in the UK can now purchase Microsoft’s Band 2 (Microsoft Announces New Phone, Band, Tablet and Laptop in New York) – despite it not being officially launched there until late November. A company …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 44| Wearables

JIN Relocates Fitness Tracker to the Head

by Tom Allen

JIN, a Japanese company, has shown off a wearable health tracker with a difference – it is a pair of glasses. Like wrist-worn trackers, the Jins Meme glasses have an accelerometer and gyroscope. JIN …

Tags:Eyewear| Fitness Trackers| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 43| Wearables

Apple Voted ‘Coolest Wearables Brand’ Even by Android Users, Juniper Survey Finds

by Isaac Oburu

A new survey by Juniper Research has found that smartphone users, regardless of their mobile preference, consider Apple the ‘coolest brand’ for wearable technology. Apple was followed by other technology brands – Samsung, Google, …

Tags:Android| Apple| Google| LG Electronics (LGE)| Microsoft| Motorola| Samsung| sony| Wearables

Apple Voted ‘Coolest Wearables Brand’

by Tom Allen

A survey by Juniper Research has found that Apple was voted the ‘Coolest Wearables Brand’ by consumers – regardless of the mobile OS that they use. Five of the top spots were occupied by …

Tags:Apple| Back Panel| Google| Huawei| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 43| Wearables| Xiaomi

Printed Electronics Event to Cover Wide Range of Topics

by Phillip Wright

The Printed Electronics Conference USA2015 (PE2015) which is billed as “The World’s Largest Conference and Exhibition on Printed, Organic and Flexible Electronics will be held November 18-19, 2015 in Santa Clara, CA. I have …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 42| Wearables

Microsoft Active in Every Mobile Category

by Tom Allen

Microsoft used an event in the USA to announce its first-ever laptop, which appears to have been well-received by market watchers. We have covered the whole event in more detail for our paying subscribers, …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Microsoft| Notebooks| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 40| Wearables| Windows

Microsoft HoloLens 10 2015

Microsoft Announces New Phone, Band, Tablet and Laptop in New York

by Norbert Hildebrand

During a hardware release event in New York, Microsoft showed off a multitude of new devices in what seems to be a complete reset of the Microsoft device line. In the first 10 weeks …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 40| Wearables

Refreshed Watch Urbane Ends Smartphone Need

by Tom Allen

At the same time as it introduced the V10 smartphone (LG Goes Dual-Screen, Dual-Camera for Content Creation), LG showed a preview of the second generation of its Watch Urbane (Wearables and Smartphones Are The …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 39| Wearables

Omate announces the TrueSmart+ Standalone Android Smartwatch.

by Tom Allen

Omate announces the TrueSmart+: its newest standalone smartwatch 2.0 powered by Android 5.1 and Omate User Interface 3.0. The TrueSmart+: Truly Smart. Truly Free. After raising over a million USD on Kickstarter two years …

Tags:Android| Smartwatches| Wearables