Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Top 5 Wearable Tech..!!

2014 is said to be the year of wearable tech..Electronics that are physically attached to your body But what good is that? why does anyone want that?, To put a super long story ,super simple and short . In 2007 Apple reinvented the smartphone with the new iPhone and made a lot of money out of that.

Now everybody has a smartphone so now companies are scrambling to find the next big thing the next big para-dime shift that will make the first good one a lot of money.. And they all seem to think it's something wearable.
And it is kind of cool to get glance-able information without getting your phone out of the pocket, not that it's much effort to do that, a watch is already perfect to do that you can glance and look at the time. with out having to unlock your phone.

These are first bits of wearable tech we have seen in 2014, they are almost beta, This is an attempt to be the iPhone of the wearable round.
Hopefully the list will be very different by the end of 2014..

So with out any further due here are the top five wearable tech option we have now.
  1. Qualcomm Toq smart watch
    This is a really interesting watch for a lot of reasons, number 1 is definitely it's display it's called the Mirasol display, it's a pretty new technology that Qualcomm has thrown into this, that gives it incredible outdoor viewing ability, it's got great viewing angles great brightness, and you can view it outside no matter how the reflections are shining of this thing. 
    Toq Smart watch
    But UI is the down side it's confusing, this is not an easy to use smart watch, it's no intuitive the UI isn't good there is a bit of learning curve and that would be the bad side about it.. and at the end of the day it's not much faster than taking your phone out of your pocket.
  2. Samsung Galaxy Gear
    It has a battery life that lasts about two days or so with regular use and it's got whole bunch of different watch faces, over all it's very appealing it's one of the best looking accessory that Samsung made for it's stuff.
    Galaxy Gear
    And that's is it's down side, this is an accessory to a Samsung device it only works with less than a dozen devices right now and if you don't have now of those devices The Galaxy Note 3 or the Galaxy S4 or one of their new tablets, it's really just a watch not a smart watch..
    And even if you do have one of those devices , a lot of the notification aren't full featured, it'll only tell you that you have a notification you should check your phone..
    I don't see the point of wearing a smart watch in this case ..

    Review of the Galaxy Gear, Link is at the bottom.
  3. Google Glass: Explorer Edition
    It's the only one in the list that is not on your wrist, and honestly it's really interesting technology it's essentially a heads-up display to real life you constantly have a display and a camera and every time you wear it you have that instant access to actual notification from your iOS or Android device.
    Google Glass
    The fact that you have to wear it on your face so it's really light weight so there is not a great battery backup, but the real down side is when you wear it you look like a Cyborg..and when you have a camera attached to your face that can make a lot of people uncomfortable..
    and also it's $1500 but that will hopefully be changing this year when we see the full consumer edition Google Glass..
    Google Glass
  4. FitBit Force
    It's actually really cool and awesome product it's a fitness band and it does everything under the moon it tracks a whole bunch of things about your daily activity and about your nightly activity. It works on any iOS or Android device with Bluetooth 4.0 and above and there are plenty of other fitness band there is the Nike Fuel band and LG Life Band touch and a whole bunch of things that this FitBit does but in different combinations but FitBit really does everything it does all of the things during the day your dieting the number of steps you take, Calories burned and even a sleep timer and the sleep activity tracker ..
    You can look back at your day and see what you did and try to beat the record there is whole bunch of awesome stuff that goes on with this ..
    FitBit
  5. Pebble Smart watch
    This is the only company on this list that only does wearable tech,This company Pebble started with very successful kick starter project, where they did the first iteration of the Pebble smart watch and now recently at CES the showed off the second iteration Pebble steel, But more importantly there is an app store only for Pebble, because of all the third party sites that were doing it any way..
    Pebble Smart Watch
    And Pebble has the advantage of being able to focus a 100% on the smart watch concept because that is all they do.
    And the Pebble Smart watch doesn't do everything that the Galaxy gear does with the camera or with the taking and receiving voice calls, But the Things that it does do it does very very well, the new app store they are putting together will allow more functionality to the device.. Because obviously there are going to be more apps ...
    So glance-able information will probably be it's best on a Pebble..
    Pebble Smart Watch with Pebble Steel..!!
    First impressions of the Pebble Smart watch is down at the Bottom..
There you go those are the Top 5 wearable tech available right now ..Tell me your thoughts about this list or tell me your list if you have one in the comments section down below..
                                                           Peace..


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