Wearables : Adafruit Industries. Smartwatches. TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits by Scott Wilson » iPod Nano Colors. WIMM Wearable Platform hands-on [Video] Wearable sub-displays keep coming around, and WIMM Labs is the latest company to try its hand at the segment. Its WIMM Wearable Platform - a 1.4-inch color touchscreen, scaled to be wearable on your wrist, and paired with WiFi, Bluetooth, various sensors and running Android-based "Micro Apps" - obviously stood out of the crowd, having caught the attention of Foxconn and two rounds of financing from the huge manufacturing/ODM company.
We caught up with the WIMM Labs team to check out the Wearable Platform and find out if it stood more chance of success than, say, Sony Ericsson's LiveView. The basic premise of the Wearable Platform isn't new. People carry their phones and tablets in pockets and bags, not in their hand, and so when nuggets of information, alerts and updates come in, they need to be taken out in order to check them. WIMM's One developer kit hardware is a step ahead of some systems we've already seen. MetaWatch — Home. Metawatch Forums. Welcome to MOTOACTV™ First Look: Motorola ACTV [VIDEO] The Motorola ACTV is not a new concept. We have seen the smartwatch for fitness tackled several times to varying levels of success (mostly no success at all).
The most memorable attempt is Sony Ericsson’s LiveView, a similarly sized device based on Android and ready to sync up to the nearest Google smartphone. The difference here is really how Motorola is marketing the ACTV. They clearly want this device to be seen as a companion for folks while they exercise or perhaps even be a motivational tool that gets people moving a bit more. And with that concept they have done away with using the ACTV concept as a jack-of-all-trades Android companion.
Sure, it does pair up with your Android phone and allow you to quickly view messages and answer calls (and it does pair with any Android phone, not just Motorola devices). Die-hard fitness buffs might get behind the ACTV, and Moto is pushing it to the right people.