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Square‘s Jack Dorsey is keen on wearables but cautious on Glass, arguing smart glasses aren’t likely to offer legitimate value to wearers for another decade or so. “Glasses are very compelling and I think it’s an amazing technology” Dorsey told the NYTimes, “but I just can’t imagine my mom wearing them right now. What is the value of Glass?”

While augmented reality wearables like Google’s headset are technically impressive, Dorsey expects more mundane examples of body-worn gadgetry to do better in the mass market. Part of that, the mobile payments service founder suggests, is due to the fact that tech you wear on your wrist can be associated more readily with geek-jewelry.

“I think the movement you see around Fitbit, Up and FuelBand, that seems to be the next step in wearable” he argued. “So something on the wrist that feels natural, almost feels a bit like jewelry.”

Some have taken Dorsey’s apparent affection for smartwatch-style tech as an indicator that Square will explore an app for such gadgets, potentially allowing for payments to be made without having to pull your phone out of your pocket. Square is best known for the credit card swipe dongles that plug into iPhones and iPads; however, the company has also been exploring other, less traditional methods of customer recognition, including geofenced apps that flash up the user’s face on the cashier’s terminal, allowing them to be recognized in a more passive manner.

For Glass to fit into daily use, Dorsey suggests, the technology will need to assimilate more readily, as well as potentially give the market time to come to terms with a computer on your face. “I think it might be a 10-year answer, but not in the next five years” he concludes. “Maybe if they’re in sunglasses or what not.”

Square CEO questions value of Google Glass is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Word has it that Blackberry 10 is expected to eventually make its way onto the Blackberry Playbook tablet, but with tablets being extremely popular devices, with some even calling them PC replacements, will Blackberry be content with just the Playbook? According to a tweet by investor Antonio Costa, it seems that Blackberry might have other tablets in the works and that Blackberry’s CEO, Thorsten Heins, could be giving us some details about them come 15^th of May during the Blackberry Live event.

We guess it wouldn’t be a shocker if Blackberry had plans for additional tablets. After all the hardware of the Playbook can be considered dated, especially when compared to more modern tablets such as the Google Nexus 7, Amazon Kindle Fire HD and of course Apple’s range of iPads. We’re not sure what Heins will reveal, if he does at all, but if you’re curious to see what sort of future tablet devices Blackberry might have planned for the future, check back with us on the 15^th of May for the details.

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We’ve heard rumors that Instagram, Temple Run 2 and other apps could be making its way onto Windows Phone, but when exactly will that be happening? Well according to the folks at WMPoweruser, they claim that through one of their sources at Microsoft, they have learnt that those long-awaited apps will finally be announced and launched once Nokia and Verizon officially announce the Nokia Lumia 928. The Lumia 928 is rumored to be an exclusive phone designed for Verizon and could come with an aluminum body, a first for Nokia’s Windows Phone lineup which will hopefully appeal to those who feel that polycarbonate is too “cheap”. Considering that the previous rumors have pegged the launch of these apps in May, and with the Lumia 928 also rumored for a May announcement, it certainly coincides with each other. However until we actually see or hear it for ourselves, we suggest you take it with a grain of salt for now.

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Toshiba has just announced their Toshiba Canvio Connect portable external hard drive which will be very different from past Canvio releases, in the sense that this external hard drive will also let you access as well as share files straight from the device itself. This would clearly make it the first of its kind in the market, where you can carry up to 2TB of external storage space in a slim and compact form factor, and for fashionistas, Toshiba has got your back covered too, as it will come in several different colors, ranging from black to silver, blue, red and white.

Imagine performing a back up of all your videos and photos straight from compatible smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices which are able to run Toshiba Storage’s iOS or Android app. In a nutshell, as long as the Toshiba Canvio Connect remains hooked up to an Internet-enabled PC which remains powered on, users can remotely access the entire gamut of their files, photos, music and movies from any device, regardless of their geographical location. Toshiba will entice curious onlookers by throwing in 10GB of free cloud storage for storing “always available” copies of important files. Out later in the middle of May, the Toshiba Canvio Connect will come in 500GB, 750GB, 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB capacities, retailing for $99, $109.99, $129.99, $169.99 and $189.99, respectively. [Press Release]

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Wacom has just announced yet another tablet of theirs, which would come in the form of the Wacom Cintiq 22HD touch. All right, so 22” might seem a tad too large for it to be called a tablet, but do let me have the liberty of calling it that for the moment. This 22” pen display would feature multi-touch functionality, which is somewhat familiar to those who have spotted the Cintiq 24HD that was launched not too long ago. What makes the Cintiq 22HD touch special apart from its multi-touch functionality would be a 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution LCD display, 16.7 million colors gamut, 16 configurable ExpressKeys, an adjustable stand as well as the Cintiq pen to help you get digitally creative. Needless to say, the inclusion of tactile capability would mean the entire shebang is more expensive with a final sticker price of $500, as Wacom readies the Cintiq 22HD touch to hit the market later this May.

With the Wacom Cintiq 22HD touch, users are able to work with digital tools, albeit in a natural and intuitive manner as the multi-touch capability would be able to support gestures for rotating canvases, assist you in zooming images in and out, the works. Got to love Wacom’s professional-level pen performance (2,048 levels of pressure and tilt sensitivity) which is more than capable of producing dazzling artistic effects within creative software applications. [Press Release]

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