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Wristwear Dominates the Wearables Market While Clothing and Earwear Have Market-Beating Growth by 2021, According to IDC

by Isaac Oburu

The overall wearables market is expected to return to strong growth after a brief slowdown in 2016 that resulted from delayed launches of major platforms and notable vendors struggling to maintain pace. Looking ahead, …

Tags:IDC| Wearable Market| Wearables

PMOLED Display Driver Sales See Strong Growth

by Yvette Raikes

During its review of the past financial year, Hong Kong IC maker Solomon Systech said that sales of its PMOLED display drivers had seen strong growth. The drivers have also attracted new design wins …

Tags:Display Drivers| Mobile Display Monitor| PMOLED| Vol 24 - Issue 10| Wearables

Fitbit Introduces Alta HR, the World’s Slimmest Fitness Wristband with Continuous Heart Rate, to Reach Your Health Goals in Style

by Isaac Oburu

Fitbit, the leader in the connected health and fitness market, today introduced Fitbit Alta HR™ and new advances in sleep tracking, giving you actionable insights and guidance in the Fitbit® app to make more …

Tags:Healthcare| Wearables

Hands-Free, Head-Mounted Tablets

by Bob Raikes

RealWear has launched what it describes as the first industrial head-mounted Android tablet, but what most people would describe as an Android-based A/R headset. The handset is designed to be used hands-free and can …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 08| Wearables

SID-ME 2017 Wearable and Projection Displays Symposium Announced

by Alan Spencer

This year’s Spring Meeting of the Society for Information Display Mid-Europe Chapter, SID-ME 2017, with the topic “Wearables and Projection Displays” will be held from 13th to 14th March in Dresden, Germany. The symposium …

Strong Demand For Wearables in MEA

by Bob Raikes

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) wearables market continued to see steady growth in Q3 2016, according to IDC. The firm said that the Middle East and Africa (MEA) wearables market grew 38.3% year …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50| Wearables

Huami to Get to #5 For Wearables?

by Bob Raikes

Huami, the subsidiary of Xiaomi that is supplying wearables, will ship 16 million devices this year, including the Xiaomi Mi Band, according to Asian sources. The value of the devices will be $216 million …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50| Wearables

First Wearable Flex Display to Appear at Pepcom

by Bob Raikes

At the Pepcom ‘during CES but not at CES’ event, Pop-I of Santa Monica will show a flexible display in in a backpack that can show high resolution images from a smartphone.

Fitbit/Pebble Deal is Confirmed

by Bob Raikes

Pebble has confirmed that it is selling its software, its main asset, to Fitbit and that 40% of its staff, involved with software, have been offered jobs by Fitbit. The price is reported at …

Gartner Survey Shows Wearable Devices Need to Be More Useful

by Milos Pavlovic

The abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29 percent, and 30 percent for fitness trackers, because people do not find them useful, they get bored of them or they break, according to a survey by …

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Fitness Trackers in the Lead as Wearables Market Grows 3.1%

by Bob Raikes

The overall wearables market grew 3.1% year over year in Q3 of 2016 and shipments reached 23 million in the quarter, according to data from IDC. Basic wearables, primarily comprised of fitness bands, accounted …

Vue Smart Glasses Have No Display

by Norbert Hildebrand

While we are all used to new Kickstarter campaigns for smart glasses, and, as such, the Vue – “Your Everyday Smart Glasses” should not come as a big surprise. And yet it definitely is. …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Vol 23 - Issue 48| Wearables