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It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything solid about the posterchild of wrist-based wearable devices, the Moto 360. Motorola’s highly anticipated smartwatch definitely seems to be a step ahead of the competition in more than one regard. We’ve known for awhile that the Moto 360 will come with wireless charging and will sport a more than acceptable battery life, but ...

With all the fuss around wearable devices being released, Microsoft woke up to see that they are, once again, tailing Samsung’s Galaxy Gear 2, Motorola’s Moto 360, HP’s newly announced luxury smartwatch and Sony’s SW2 smartwatch. To this realization Microsoft has leaked its new smartwatch’s design, which honestly, pleases the eye. The concept images released are akin to previously seen ...

Silicon Valley’s Hewlett Packard has established a triple partnership with fashion designer Michael Bastian and e-commerce website Gilt. Michael Bastian is a winner of CFDA Fashion Awards in 2011 and is being constantly nominated since 2008. At first glance, HP’s smartwatch will have to take on the Withings Activité in terms of design and Moto 360 and Pebble Steel in ...

The Android Wear category has been stacked with specific apps and wearable device users are satisfied with the way the OS works, but there haven’t been games designed for the OS so far. SWIP3 is the first game specifically designed for wearable devices, and it is a standard swiping game where you have to match colored blocks in rows and columns; ...

UK cinemas are set to ban customers from wearing Google Glass devices amid piracy fears. The £1000 hardware, which only just became available to buy outside of the US, will not be allowed to be worn by anybody wishing to see a movie in the vast majority of cinemas in the country. The move has come because of the ability ...

Google announced today at their I/O conference that the LG G Watch and all-new Samsung Gear Live, both running Android Wear, will be available to order today. The previously announced LG G Watch will also be available for $299, and the Moto 360 will be available later this summer. Samsung watches make their return to Android, as they were using ...

An FCC filing seems to suggest that the Moto 360 smartwatch will support wireless charging. The filing shows the device will be compatible with most QI wireless chargers rather than the rival Duracell standard. This would certainly make it easier for people to keep the smartwatch charged. The Moto 360 is Motorola’s answer to the smartwatch market that has just ...

It looks like Samsung will again team up with Google for yet another device. CNET reports that Samsung is planning to launch a smartwatch, similar to their already existing Galaxy Gear, which will instead run the new Android Wear, a modified version of the Android operating system tailored for smartwatches and other wearable tech. The device is expected to be announced, ...

The LG G Watch is expected to be announced at the upcoming Google I/O developers’ conference, which is scheduled to take place during 25-26 June. An image of the smartwatch was recently uploaded anonymously on Imagur and shows that the device will feature an app which allows it to communicate with smartphones via microUSB. The uploader didn’t reveal any details about the device, but the ...

According to a CNET report, Samsung is planning to launch an Android Wear smartwatch next week during Google’s I/O 2014 developers’ conference. The article says that the upcoming device will be similar to the Galaxy Gear and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches. Moreover, the Korean company seems to be working on two models of this still unannounced device. “Samsung has been working on an Android Wear ...