Casio announced today at CES that it will release the WSD-F10 Smart Outdoor Watch, an Android Wear wrist device with water resistance to 50 meters and built to military standard specifications. Casio has been developing watches since the 1970s, and later developed PDAs and cellular phones from the 1990s into the 2000s. Leveraging its technology […]
Privoro, a new technology company founded on the principle of standing on the right side of privacy – yours – announces its entry into the privacy protection market. Today Privoro introduces two devices as part of a series of new solutions designed to safeguard personal and professional privacy and enable information security on smartphones and […]
MediaTek today announced several different processors that target a handful of industries. The MT2523 packages together an MCU, GPS, Bluetooth LE, and PMU into a single piece of silicon for wearables. An ARM Cortex M4 forms the low-power processor. MediaTek says the MT2523 is 41% smaller than competing modules and can power small, but high-resolution […]
Samsung is taking direct aim at the wearable market with a new processor custom-designed to monitor health and fitness data. The Bio-Processor combines Analog Front Ends (AFEs), a micro controller, a power management integrated circuit, a digital signal processor, and an eFlash memory chip into a single module. Samsung says this allows it to keep […]
Google has made a collection of designer watch faces available to Android Wear devices. The faces come from designers and brands such as Ted Baker, Melissa Joy Manning, Vivienne Tam, Nicole Miller, Y-3, Mango, Zoe Jordan, Harajuku Kawaii!, and ASICS. Some of the designs feature unique animations. Google said owners of Android smartphones can download […]
AT&T today said the Samsung Gear S2 now supports NumberSync. The service lets AT&T customers send and receive texts, as well as make and receive calls on the wearable from their primary phone number. AT&T plans to add the feature through a system update being pushed out today. The Samsung Gear S2 is on sale […]
Google has updated its Chromecast Audio product with high-resolution audio and multi-room syncing. Google says Chromecast Audio can support music up to 96KHz/24bit for lossless playback. Chromecast Audio now lets people sync multiple devices in separate rooms so the same music can be played throughout the house. An updated version of the Chromecast app makes […]
Alongside the release of Apple’s new battery case, the company has also updated its Lightning to SD Card adapter. The new version has the same design and name as its predecessor, but the chipset in the reader has been updated to utilize the iPad Pro’s faster USB 3.0 transfer speeds. The packaging is also the […]
Apple today released watchOS 2.1 for the Apple Watch. The refreshed platform chiefly delivers a new set of languages, including Arabic, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Malay, Portugese, and Vietnamese. Accordingly, the platform gains right-to-left language support, and Siri is able to recognize and receive dictation in several of these languages. In addition to the new […]
Apple has designed and released its own external battery case for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s. The accessory is formed by soft-touch silicone. The battery itself is concentrated in an obvious rectangle on the back surface. The case wraps around the phone entirely and plugs into the Lightning port on the bottom to deliver […]