Oct 01
The Galaxy Gear is an impressive push in mobile technology, but the execution — both on the hardware and software side — isn’t enough to justify the $300 price tag.
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Oct 01
The Galaxy Gear wants desperately to be the vanguard of a new era of wearable computers. But while it promises more than the rest of the pack, if anything it makes absolutely clear that the future’s still a long ways off.
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Sep 09
Car maker Nissan has joined the burgeoning smartwatch scene, announcing that it’s created a biometric reader to combine personal health stats with those of your… car. So you can track man and machine from the same device.
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Sep 06
Why I Will Never Want a Smartwatch
Posted in: Today's Chili
I don’t want a smartwatch. I don’t, and will not. Because the very idea of a smartwatch, even at its platonic ideal, is damn useless. Let me explain.
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Sep 06
I Actually Really Want a Smartwatch
Posted in: Today's Chili
I think smartwatches are a really neat idea. It’s been made clear to me—on Twitter, in the office, on the internet at large—that a lot of people disagree. With a burning passion
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Sep 06
Disregarding my opinion that smartwatches (unless they’re the Pebble, or something as intuitive and elegantly-executed) can all be tossed in a skip and set on fire, I’m actually really impressed after a brief play with the Qualcomm Toq (pronounced “talk,” not “toc.” Dubbed “the anti-Galaxy Gear” (by us), such is the stripped-down nature of what’s crammed inside the 1.5-inch display, it’s more of a pimped-out watch than Dick Tracy phonewatch. And that’s a good thing, before you ask.
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Sep 05
Time may just be a social construct, but it’s one of the rare bits of humanity that will more or less always remain constant. However, the same cannot be said for our timepieces that no longer tell time—our ever-evolving watches.
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Sep 05
Welcome to the future! a Samsung rep proclaimed during the company’s new product presentation in Berlin yesterday. Yes, something out of sci-fi! he beamed. The rep was wearing the new Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, proudly showing it off for the journalists in the room and the tech geeks watching along at home. The future has arrived… again, I suppose.
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Sep 05
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the latest round of touchscreen timepieces like the Galaxy Gear,
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Sep 05
Samsung’s brand new smartwatch—Galaxy Gear
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