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Intel Mica Smart Bracelet Revealed

November 18, 2014 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

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There are plenty of smart wearable accessories on the market right now. Smart watches that act as heart-rate monitors and help you keep fit. But how many of these wearable devices can be worn as actual bracelets? Sure, they have a modern design, but most of them are big and clunky and cannot really be worn as an accessory to, let’s say, an evening gown. Intel Mica smart bracelet is trying to fix that. Mica is an abbreviation for “my intelligent communication accessory” and Intel revealed it on Monday.

The smart wearable device is very similar to other smartwatches available on the market right now, meaning that it can receive texts, call notifications, shows Google alerts, like Google Calendar and Facebook notifications. The Intel Mica smart bracelet can event show you Yelp restaurant recommendations.

The Intel Mica smart bracelet is an 18-karat gold coated device that has a curved sapphire glass touchscreen display. It also comes in various designs and styles. One of the smart bracelets features Chinese pearls and stones from the island of Madagascar and is covered in black water snake skin. Another bracelet is covered in white water snake skin and features tiger’s eye stones from and South Africa and obsidian from Russia. You can find more information about the style of the Intel Mica smart bracelet on the official website.

The bracelet can be charged using the small microUSB port and its battery can last to up to two days. If this is true, then it lasts longer than the Apple Watch, which lasts only one day.
The Intel Mica smart bracelet also comes with a special security feature: you can lock it from outside and locate it using the internet if you forget where you’ve put it. The bracelet features a feature called “time to go” which is powered by Intel and TomTom. This features reminds you when you have to go to a meeting based on your location.

Although the features are not something truly outstanding, the way the The Intel Mica smart bracelet looks makes all the difference. The stylish device costs $495 if you buy it with a two-year contract from AT&T.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: apple watch, intel mica, Intel Mica Smart Bracelet, new smartwatches, new wearable, smart bracelet, smartwatches, wearables

New Meme Smartglasses May Save Your Life

May 14, 2014 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

meme smartglasses Recently we presented you with Memi, the smartbracelet for women. If you remember, we said that the beautifully designed piece of jewelry was meant to alert a woman every time her smartphone rings or receives messages in the purse or in another room in the house.

Now, the smart devices family becomes richer with a new member: the new Meme smartglasses, a Bluetooth – powered wearable gadget that gives us a heads – up every time we are about to fall asleep. Why is such device interesting? Well, if you think about the number of car accidents caused by drivers who fell asleep for a second behind the wheel, you surely realize that such device may actually prevent a lot of tragic accidents and save peoples’ lives.

There is a fun side to the Meme smartglasses as well: reviewers insist on college students never falling asleep during courses and seminars and over-worked professionals never falling asleep during meetings. On a more serious note, the new Meme smartglasses are a healthy – oriented device, as they warn us when we are exhausted, urging us to take a break and not push it too far.

How do the Meme Smartglasses actually work?

According to the people from Endgadget,

The Bluetooth wearable includes both eye and motion sensors that can tell when you’re close to nodding off. If it gets to that point, a companion smartphone app will give you a heads-up. The eyewear is useful even when you’re fully alert, as it can handle basic fitness duties like step counting and calorie tracking.

As you see, the wearable piece of tech may prove itself very useful in the future. So far, everything we know about manufacturing and pricing is that the new Meme smartglasses are produced in Japan by JINS. The company will start delivering three smartglasses models at a national level, with prices ranging from $685 to $979 (according to present currency convertors). Unfortunately, there is no official word on when and how the glasses will be exported to the United States.

In Japan they are set to be released in the spring of 2015 and U.S. tech enthusiasts already expressed their support for the new Meme smartglasses. Why? Well, let’s put it this way: they don’t look as freaky as the Google Glass and they are actually more useful to our lives than many other wearable gadgets on the market. If you take into account the sunglasses version of the Meme, you might be waiting for the best deal ever in terms of futuristic devices. Stay tuned to the news, as we will come back when we find out more about these awesome spectacles.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: smart devices, wearables

The MEMI Smartbracelet Combines Fashion, Technology, and Function

May 8, 2014 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

memi smartbraceletPerhaps “smartbracelet” is not a term your regular word processor recognizes or can find synonyms to. However, you’d better get used to it quickly, especially if you are a woman. Presented at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley yesterday, the MEMI smartbracelet will soon make its entrance on the market, as one of those women-targeted gadgets that go beyond fashion. Without a doubt, MEMI is also incredibly useful, as it is able to solve some of the issues the male-driven tech world hadn’t been able to solve thus far. For instance, as most women can tell you, they wear purses and are used to carrying their cell phones in said purses.

Sure, you may be able to find women who prefer shoving their large, expensive smartphones in the pockets of their jeans, but they’re more of an exception, really. So, from a woman’s point of view, keeping one’s cell phone in one’s purse is the safest way to carry it around. Also, what about noisy, crowded places? It often happens that you don’t hear your phone ring or receiving text messages. In order to solve this apparently banal issue (but, oh, so important for those not obsessed with checking their phones every other two minutes), the MEMI smartbracelet simply alerts the woman wearing it that there is communication activity going on with her phone, by subtly vibrating around her wrist.

Here’s what Sarah Perez, has to say about the gadget in her coverage for TechCrunch. Incidentally, Perez wanted to buy the device right away, on the spot. She also got the opportunity to talk to the woman behind this ingenious project – Margaux Guerard.

[quote]The best thing about the MEMI bracelet […] is that it doesn’t look like a “wearable device.” It looks like jewelry. It’s a tad heavier than a similarly-styled bracelet I have at home, but the weight, explains Guerard, is something they’ve been experimenting with. She says that when testing prior, lighter versions, some of the feedback they received from women was that bracelets that were too light felt “cheap.” So the MEMI, which will be available in gold and silver, is designed with aesthetics in mind. It’s the kind of thing you might buy for yourself anyway, even if it didn’t come with its included smarts. And when someone sees the bracelet dangling on your wrist, they don’t immediately know it’s a device. Which is cool.[/quote]

The MEMI smartbracelet kills two birds with one stone: it offers women a way of keeping their phones safely tucked away in their purses, but also allows them to be reachable. To boot, it elegantly solves the style issue: most wearable gadgets currently on the market are impossible to wear with an evening dress or a cocktail party outfit. The MEMI smartbracelet, although functionally limited, in comparison with smartwatches and other futuristic devices, is a great idea. It will be available for pre-orders for $150, which is quite a good price for a hi-tech style accessory.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: MEMI smartbracelet, smart devices, wearables

LeapBand Wearable Activity Tracker For Kids Revealed

May 5, 2014 By Troy Rubenson Leave a Comment

leapband tracker for kidsThe world of wearable smart devices just got friendlier and more playful because LeapFrog announced their latest toy, the LeapBand, which is the first wearable activity tracker designed especially for kids ages 4 to 7. The LeapBand is a fun combination of a pedometer and one of those popular virtual pets from the 90s called Tamagotchi, remember? You had to take care of a virtual pet, like feeding and playing with it, in order to keep it happy. The new wearable device has a noble purpose: getting the younger generation more active and sporty.

The LeapBand tracker resembles a toy watch, it has a strap made of thick, thermoplastic polyurethane plastic that snaps onto a kid’s wrist. You can get it in three colors: blue, pink or green and according to its creators, the strap mechanism is still being worked on. The wearable device measures 1.9×2.3×1.6 inches and has a 1.44 inch thin-film-transistor color display. Its screen has a 128x128p resolution and is backlit.

The speaker is above the screen and it features an activity button to the left of the speaker. The right and left arrow keys are below the screen, along with a star key right between the two arrows. The LeapBand tracker has a miniUSB port on its right side and you can charge it using the Lithium-Polymer rechargeable battery using a cable. LeapFrog said that the LeapBand requires recharging every four to six days, if used on standard play time.

When you activate the LeapBand for the very first time, you will need to choose one of eight customizable virtual pets from the Pet Pals franchise. You can choose from a dog, cat, dragon, panda, monkey, penguin, unicorn and robot. You then need to customize your chosen pet by selecting one of the seven colors and one of the four names suggestions. After your first activation the tracker stays on constantly measuring the children’s activity throughout the whole day. The LeapBand is on even when the screen goes dark. By pressing the star key, the screen is turned on.

LeapBand Wearable Activity Tracker For Kids – price and availability

The LeapBand will be available in the US around August 2014 for $39.99. You will be able to buy it at major retailers and online. The tracker will also include an app called the Petathlon, free to download on Apple IOS devices which use 6.0 or higher and on Android devices running 4.03 or higher.

 

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: fitness trackers, leapband tracker, wearables

Meet The World’s Strongest Material: Graphene The Wonder Material

April 15, 2014 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

grapheneThe world of science is always evolving. Every day scientists discover new things that can revolutionize the world as we know it. If you ever wondered what is the world’s strongest and thinnest material, wonder no more. The answer to that question is graphene, “the wonder material”. This form of carbon conducts electricity and heat better than any other materials out there and it’s not only the hardest material but also the most flexible.

Graphene has been called the “wonder material” and it’s only a single atom thick. Some believe that this wonder material could revolutionize the electronics industry in the near future.

Graphene was discovered 10 years ago but scientists started to take interest in it in 2010 when two scientists won the Nobel Prize for their experiments using the graphene material.

Graphene the wonder material is said to be 200 times stronger than steel and so thin that only an ounce of it can cover over 28 football fields. This is one of the few materials that is conductive, transparent and flexible and scientists say that it’s very rare to find all these properties in one material.

Scientists say that graphene will be soon used for thinner, faster and cheaper electronics, electronics that are silicon based, only the graphene ones will be clearer and more flexible. Graphene can also be used for waterproof batteries.

At the moment researchers are working on sensors made with graphene like light sensors, gas sensors and biosensors, making them smaller than ever. Graphene can also make cellphones very thin and foldable.

Samsung is said to have figured out a way to create graphene transistors which will be used for making flexible displays, next generation wearables and other modern electronic devices.

But Samsung is not the only company working with the wonder material. Researchers at Nokia and IBM are experimenting with graphene in order to create memory storage, transistors and sensors. A professor at Columbia University discovered that graphene is so flexible that it could stretch by 20% and still be able to conduct electricity. The professor compared this to silicon which can only stretch by 1% before it breaks.

With all these “wonder” properties one would think that graphene costs a fortune, but it doesn’t. Every electronic device available on the market could be made smaller, cheaper and smarter with graphene.

Graphene the wonder material makes better earphones

Last year at the University of California in Berkley scientists created graphene speakers that deliver the sound at a better quality than a pair of Sennheiser earphones and the graphene speakers were a lot smaller too.

 

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: graphene, wearables

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