The Apple watch had been on the news for a while now and since then, a lot of companies have begun their development of smart watch technology. The upcoming Huawei smart watch for their Android Wear tech have been hitting the news lately. The tech company’s strategy to adapt designs for their female audience proved largely well received. In addition, there is now plans for interesting new modifications for their second release in the pipeline. Looking at what Apple is doing, Huawei provides similar options for people to select the type of accessories that comes with the watch. With plans to allow customisation to watch faces and colour palettes, there is diversity for buyers. This emerging competition inevitably benefits buyers after all.
Projection onto flesh?
Woah, you must be kidding. A wristband idea that cleverly connect us directly to the Internet by projecting information like time, calls, messages, emails or notifications from social media and other online sites onto our own flesh? Ritot has came out with a concept surrounding the smart-watch technology with projection features. While there haven’t been any physical prototypes yet, the company has amassed almost $375,000 on Indiegogo. This has got to be one of the most interesting tech gadget around. Considering Justin Timberlake’s movie, In Time, where you time literally being projected on human flesh, this is exactly what’s going to happen. The article on Mashable explains that Ritot taps on the pico projector to display content on top of our hands. There seem to be two models available. Interestingly, it is priced at a very affordable price of $120 and is estimated for delivery by early 2015. Definitely a tech piece that is going to rock the world soon.
The One
Foray into the highly saturated mobile market is a rather adventurous decision. And, a highly risky move. OnePlus, a tech startup is keen to take on that challenge. The inaugural debut features a smartphone with both sleek appearance packed with killer specifications. Known as the One, the phone is created under the company belief, “never settle,”
Do check out more about this smartphone from here.
Some of its specs:
a 5.5-inch, full HD screen,
a quad-core,
2.5GHz Qualcomm
Snapdragon CPU with an Adreno 330 GPU,
3GB of RAM and 16/64GB of storage.
The unanimity that Apple produces craze and desires, has always left me with doubts on the popularity of its existence or its technology. Take their iWatch for instance, the idea of having a smartwatch to pair with you smartphone does seem a bit far fetched initially. Despite the watch having a series of phone functions, it now integrates with fitness-related features, giving the user a holistic experience. While some might view this product line being detrimental to Apple’s robust line of tech gadgets, the revolutionary invention for a smartwatch has its fair share of returns for the tech giant. A watch that benefits users by providing them easy access to their health details can be extremely helpful. The watch is capable of detecting the heart beats of its user and is likely to even notify its owner of an impending heart attack. Pretty neat eh?
Personally, the idea of having a watch that not only looks good, but actually works so hard to give you that extra help in managing your health is something noteworthy. In fact, Apple is working on Healthbook, offering an integrated suite of functions, including the number of steps you have walked, the amount of miles you travel or even the calories you have burned. All these are essential to keep you in great health. There are even more exciting functions like keeping your hydration levels, blood pressure and glucose levels in check. Awesome.
Nokia 2520
The embarrassing stuffs I have heard about Nokia going bust or having it’s operations lapsed make it seem like people are uncertain of what the tech company is capable of doing. Introducing the first Nokia tablet, the Lumia 2520. This baby was launched together with the rest of the gadgets like the 6-inch Windows Phones, the Lumia 1520 and 1320. There were also many exciting updates coming onboard this time round. Check out more of them here:
Zack Chia 