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If you’re shopping about for a new smartwatch, there’s something you’ll need to consider and that is whether or not that watch will be upgraded to Google and Samsung’s Wear OS 3 platform. The good news is that Fossil has since announced their brand new Gen 6 smartwatches.

These smartwatches will be powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Wear 4100+ chipset. According to Fossil, the use of the chipset means that users can look forward to faster loading times as well as support for fast-charging, where it can recharge the watch up to 80% in just half an hour.

There will also be continuous heart rate tracking, a new blood oxygenation sensor, and also a wellness app. That being said, it should be noted that the watches do not come with Wear OS 3 installed, simply because it isn’t available yet. However, the good news is that these watches will eventually be upgraded once the update is available, which is currently set for 2022

The new Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches will be available in a variety of designs, colors, and materials and will range in price. If you’re interested, they are available for pre-order via Fossil’s website where they are priced anywhere between $299 and $319, depending on the configuration you’ve chosen.

Fossil’s New Gen 6 Smartwatches Will Be Upgraded To Wear OS 3

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The concept of smart clothing isn’t new. Companies like Google have explored the concept with Project Jacquard. However, the implementation seems rather basic, like performing gestures to interact with your phone, which while nifty feels a bit novel. However, what if smart clothing could be used for more advanced purposes, like gathering biometric data?

That being said, maybe this could be a problem that can be solved if the tech can be more tightly integrated into the clothing. This is what researchers at Rice University have done, where they have created conductive fibers using carbon nanotubes that are then sewn into the clothing itself.

As the nanotubes themselves are so small, the researchers had to bundle several of them together to get it to be around the same size as a regular thread, which then allowed them to use it with a sewing machine. When integrated into an athletic shirt, it allowed the shirt to gather data on the wearer like their heart rate, which means that maybe in the future, our clothes can gather biometric data without the need for chest straps or even smartwatches.

The researchers found that based on their initial tests, that the use of nanotubes allowed it to collect better data compared to a typical chest strap heart monitor, and was also comparable to that of electrode monitors. It might be a while before we see this tech become commercially available, but for now it shows a lot of promise.

Carbon Nanotubes Can Be Sewn Into Clothes To Make Them Smarter

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Vivo is gearing up to flex its mobile photography muscles in just a few days, barely a year after it launched the Vivo X60 series. In contrast to the last two X flagships, however, it seems that the Vivo X70 will be a bit more low-key, preferring internal upgrades over spectacular features. The Vivo X70 Pro+, however, could be the … Continue reading

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We’ve seen renders of the upcoming Apple Watch Series 7 in the past that shows off the new design, but the folks at PhoneArena have since cobbled together a bunch of fresh renders that depicts them like how you might expect to see them if they were on Apple’s website, and we have to say that this renders do give us a better idea of what to expect.

We already know that the upcoming Series 7 will sport a brand new design. This design language will borrow from the iPad Pro and iPhone 12 which have ditched the curved edges in favor of something that’s flatter and sharper, and these renders show just that. We were a bit worried based on the previous renders that it might look too boxy, but these renders actually seem to make the watch look “better”, even though they are kind of the same thing.

Apart from that, these renders don’t really tell us what we don’t already know. The Series 7 will obviously come with various upgrades in terms of processor, but it is also rumored to be bigger where it will have 41mm and 45mm display options, up from 40mm and 44mm from the previous models.

There were initial reports about it packing a glucose monitor, but later reports pretty much squashed it. We expect that the Series 7 will most likely be announced at the iPhone event later in September, so check back with us in the coming weeks for more details.

New Apple Watch Series 7 Renders Show Us What To Expect

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