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Huawei Backs Away From Android at MWC

by Tom Allen

Huawei has said that it will introduce new wearables and tablets at MWC in March. The company’s focus will be on premium devices. Although specifics were not announced, Huawei did say that it would …

Tags:Android| Android Wear| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 05| Wearables| Windows

SMI has partnered with OmniVision

by Tom Allen

Eye tracking: bringing back jamjar specs one face at a timeSensomotoric Instruments has teamed up with Omnivision to develop a new eye-tracking platform, for both consumer and professional applications. The platform combines OmniVision’s imaging solutions …

Tags:Eyewear| Gaze Recognition| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Vol 22 - Issue 05| Wearables

Smart Glasses Set for Enterprise Adoption

by Tom Allen

2015 will be a significant year for smartglasses, with predicted unit shipment growth of almost 150% YoY, says ABI Research. The majority of growth will come from the enterprise and public sector, rather than …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 05| Wearable Market| Wearables

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Apple Confirms Watch Release Date

by Tom Allen

Apple has finally provided an Apple Watch release date. Speaking during the recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said, “Development for Apple Watch is right on schedule, and we expect to begin shipping in …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Batteries| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 05| Wearables

Sony Wants to Address the Wearable Market with Partnerships

by Norbert Hildebrand

PC World published an article on Sony’s appearance at the Wearable Device Technology Expo in Tokyo.  Kaz Tajima, senior vice president at Sony Mobile Communications, said that Sony is looking for collaboration partners for new …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Wearables

Consumers Will Get Hands (and Eyes) on Oculus This Year

by Tom Allen

Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe is said to have told attendees of CES 2015 that the Oculus Rift headset will be launched by the autumn of this year. Cyberland claims that production has already …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 05| Wearables

FDA Separates Fitness Trackers From Health Products

by Vanessa Browning

The USA’s Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance (http://tinyurl.com/q24e7qn) on rules to follow for vendors to get wearable devices classified as ‘general wellness’ products (i.e. not a device for treating specific medical …

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Cicret: Too Good to be True?

by Arthur Berman

Type Cicret bracelet into your Web browser and it will produce lots of hits. Some of these lead to very polished videos that, by now, have been viewed by millions of people. One such …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Wearables

Low Information Density Display for Your Workout

by Alfred Poor

In a world dominated by stories of 4K (and 8K and even higher) resolution displays, it’s good to be reminded from time to time that very small amounts of data can still be useful, …

Tags:Fitness Trackers| ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03| Wearables

Mediatek Stretches from Wearables to UltraHD TVs

by Bob Raikes

Mediatek Eyewear refererence design We commented in our report on the Gitex show in Dubai that chip-maker, Mediatek, was taking a higher marketing profile and we found the same at CES, although the company …

Tags:Android| CES 2015| Eyewear| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart TV| Vol 22 - Issue 03| VP9| Wearables

Wearables – The Next Big Thing?

by Norbert Hildebrand

For the past few years every few days we were reporting on some new wearable device being developed or entering the consumer electronic market.  Smartwatches have been available for quite some time and fitness …

Tags:IHS Markit| Internet of Things IOT| MEMS| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 03| Wearable Market| Wearables