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Apple Announces Wellness Aggregator Health

June 3, 2014

iOS 8 Health App

Apple announced its widely expected Health app at WWDC this week.  While differing slightly from the rumored HealthBook app, Health serves the same purpose.  Using the HealthKit APIs, developers can enable their medical or wearable device to communicate with the app.  Health will then aggregate the data from a variety of devices into one unified location.  The idea is that your calorie and sleep data from your FitBit will be next to your weight and MBI info from your Withings scale, which can be displayed with your iHealth glucose monitor readings.  Collecting data from various 3rd party hardware is great, but one can easily see the importance of the Health app if Apple’s health-centric smart watch becomes a reality.  

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by Doug Parker
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Watches, Wearable Technology

LG Teases Upcoming G Watch In Promo Video

May 13, 2014

LG G Watch

LG is expected to officially announce their upcoming smart watch, the G Watch, at a press event on May 27 in London.  This week the South Korean company launched a teaser video of the device.  While the video offers little new information, it does provide a nice rundown of what we already know.  To recap what is known: it will run on the Android Wear platform, it will be water and dust resistant, and it will be always on.  Head past the break to see the video.  

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Google Announces Android Wear Platform

March 18, 2014

Motorola Moto 360 Android Wear WatchToday smart watches and wearable devices made their first mainstream step forward.  Google announced the Android Wear platform and the release of the accompanying software development kit earlier today.  Based on Android Mobile OS, the new platform is designed to make it easier and less costly for hardware developers to launch wearable technology.  The software is designed to work with Android phones and allow app developers to push content to the device. It offers features such as always active voice recognition (“OK, Google.”) and Google Now’s preemptive search.

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Finnish Company Creoir Shows The Prettier Side Of Smart Watches

February 26, 2014

Creoir Ibis Smart Watch Concept

 

This week at the World Mobile Conference in Barcelona, Finnish technology design studio Creoir revealed its concept of what they believe a smart watch should look like.  A far cry from a Galaxy Gear watch, Creoir’s Ibis design more closely resembles jewelry that someone integrated technology into.  Crafted from stainless steel, Creoir’s design features a traditional watch face and a small OLED touch screen running an optimized version of Android.  Addition specs of the design include Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi, an accelerometer, an e-compass, an ambient light sensor, and the ability to remotely interact with either iOS or Android mobile devices.  Since Creoir is a design firm it is unlikely that this watch will be hitting a store near you any time soon, but with a history of working with top technology companies, it is likely you might start seeing devices utilizing a similar design language.  Head below the break to see Creoir’s video of the watch in action.  

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