Claims watch will feature Siri/iPhone integration Apple and Intel are collaborating on a producing a Bluetooth-capable smart watch, claims Chinese site TGBus. The device will allegedly use a 1.5-inch OLED screen from RITEK subsidiary RiTdisplay, and ship in the first half of 2013. Few other details are mentioned, but it’s expected to integrate with Siri [...]
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Casio Announces ‘Bluetooth Low Energy’ Enabled G-Shock Smart Watch
Posted by Gary on December 6, 2012
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Casio has officially announced the Bluetooth G-Shock, a $180 Bluetooth v4-enabled smart watch. Though the watch will ostensibly be competing with the Pebble e-paper wristwatch, the G-Shock is in a bit of a different category. It’s a much more traditional watch, looking nearly identical to other G-Shock watches, water resistant to 200m, and with significantly [...]
MoviePass lets subscribers watch unlimited movies
Posted by Gary on October 3, 2012
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MoviePass subscription service goes live for invited iPhone owners The MoviePass service that had some teething issues last year is now exiting its beta test phase and phasing in an iPhone app. The service costs between $25 and $40 depending on the subscriber’s location, and there are some restrictions. The biggest is that the full-blown [...]
Swiss railway, watch firms angry over new iPad Clock app
Posted by Gary on September 21, 2012
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App borrows look from Swiss clock design Two Swiss companies — Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and watchmaker Mondaine — are considering pursuing Apple over the new Clock app in the iPad version of iOS 6, according to Blick.ch. The look of the clocks in the app is said to resemble a design originally used in [...]
News Corp’s money losing ‘The Daily’ put ‘on watch’ – report
Posted by Gary on July 13, 2012
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Published: 03:51 PM EST (12:51 PM PST) News Corporation’s tablet and smartphone-only publication The Daily, which first debuted on Apple’s iPad, has reportedly been put “on watch” as its parent company restructures and looks to cut costs. The details come from “internal rumors” at News Corp., according to the New York Observer, which reported this [...]
iPod nano as a watch: living with the LunaTik and iWatchz Q
Posted by Gary on June 2, 2012
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We check out the LunaTik and iWatchz Q for iPod nano Although the iPod nano did not receive much love from Apple at its last revamp from a hardware perspective, Apple acknowledged its popularity as a digital watch by giving users a number of new clock faces taking the total to 18. One of the [...]
The Apple Byte: The best iPhone watch EVAR!
Posted by Gary on May 18, 2012
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cnet.com Liquidmetal rumors are the craze with the next-gen iPhone and we’re fearing for our life. We have tips on how to protect your Mac from malware, and the Pebble watch blows our mind!
Smartwatch shootout: Pebble E-Paper watch vs. the competition
Posted by Gary on April 25, 2012
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There’s been plenty of Kickstarter projects in our browser tabs lately, but one of the more interesting is the Pebble E-Paper smartwatch. Its developers only needed $100K to bring the product to completion, instead they’re at over $6 million with 24 days remaining. If you haven’t read up on it yet, the Pebble is a [...]