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Jins Eyewear Reaches USA

by Tom Allen

Japanese company Jins is bringing its Jins Meme smart eyewear (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 21) to the US market. The glasses do not contain a display; instead, they are a head-mounted input device. …

Wearable devices were a major topic at CES with many companies showing products for this developing market. Qualcomm, as one of the key suppliers for mobile devices today, has a natural interest in all …

UK Government Allocates Wearable Fund

by Tom Allen

The UK government’s technology strategy board, Innovate UK, has allocated a £210,000 ($319,200) fund to drive innovation in wearable technology. Six winners of a wearables competetion will each receive £35,000 ($53,200). Successful companies will …

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

Imacwear Debuts Waterproof Cellular Smartwatch

by Vanessa Browning

Imacwear showed off its new smartwatch at an event in Times Square this month. The Sparta M7 watch is an IP67-rated watch with 3G cellular connectivity and is waterproof. It features a 1.54″ LCD …

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

Intel Devises Smart Spider Dress

by Tom Allen

Simultaneously beautiful and terrifying, the Smart Spider Dress is the result of a collaboration between Intel and designer Anouk Wipprecht. The dress – which is 3D-printed – uses Intel’s Edison platform, embedded inside, and reacts …

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

Industry Insight: Four Tech Studies Debut at CEA’s Research Summit

by Helen Vince

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® unveiled four new studies to provide insights on growing consumer technology segments and adjacent markets at CEA’s Research Summit, held at the 2015 International CES® running January 6-9 in …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| OTT Video| UltraHD & 4K| Wearables

Apple Watch To Launch by March?

by Tom Allen

9to5Mac, quoting ‘sources familiar with the matter’, claims that the Apple Watch will go on sale in the USA in March. While a date is not provided, the website has previously put forward 20th …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Wearables

Virgin Media’s KipstR Wearable records TV if you fall asleep

by Bob Raikes

The ‘KipstR’ is a new 3D-printed wearable, created at Manchester Creative Studio by two teenage students working with Virgin Media. The band links to a TiVo box and uses a pulse-oximeter to sense whether …

HTC Scraps Watch, Looks to Wristband

by Bob Raikes

According to Venturebeat, HTC’s wearable (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 7) will be a wristband, not a smartwatch. The device will be shown off at CES, but not launched until later in Q1 (chairwoman …

Tags:CES 2015| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 50| Wearables

FES Uses E Ink to Change Strap Design…

by Raverstead

Fashion Entertainments, a Japanese start-up, has extended the use of E Ink on a smartwatch. As well as the display, the strap also uses E Ink technology to show multiple different designs. There is …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47| Wearables

Overlapping Functionality Lowers Wearable Shipments

by Raverstead

Shipments of wearable electronic devices for fitness will dip slightly next year, as the functionality of smartwatches, smart wristbands and other wearable fitness monitors overlaps. Gartner expects shipments to reach 68.1 million units, down …

Quanta Plans Double-Digit Wearable Growth

by Raverstead

Quanta vice chairman C.C. Leung told journalists in New Taipei City that the company expects “significant growth” in the wearables market next year. Leung said that Quanta is targetting double-digit sales growth and will …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| ODMs & OEMs| Quanta| Vol 21 - Issue 45| Wearables