Smart+Watches

Smart Watches

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Topic: Smart Watches

Description: A Smart Watch is a computerized wristwatch that does so much more than just the standard "timekeeping." Often compared to as a PDA or personal digital assistant these watches can do anything you could possibly imagine. Depending on the brand some of these watches run mobile apps where your watch can be synced to your cell phone. When synced you can do anything from making cell phone calls, receive calls, access FM radio, and more. The top five most popular Smart Watches out right now are the Pebble Smartwatch, Martian Smartwatch, i'm Watch Smartwatch, ConnecteDevice Cookoo Smartwatch, and Metawatch.

Smart watches are not a new idea. In books and television, futuristic smart watches have been around forever, but the technology has not been around to reproduce these miniature computers that sit on your wrist and do various functions besides tell time. The first smart watch was developed in 1972 by a company named Pulsar. This watch was just a digital watch, but it was the first of it's kind. In the coming years other watch companies built upon this digital watch and added some calculating functions and novelty games. Linux came out with the first real smart watch in 2000. This smart watch ran Linux 2.2 and had 8 MB of memory, and later versions had finger print scanners and a vibration mechanism. 2013 has been dubbed "the year of the smart watch" by some. Huge phone companies such as Apple, Samsung and Sony. Samsung have already launched 3 smart watches this year, with more smart watches from different companies expected to follow within the coming months.

Applications:

While these watches can hook up to a users cell phone it also has applications that are already installed on the phone. Including: camera, accelerometer, thermometer, altimeter, barometer, compass, chronograph, calculator, cell phone, touch screen, GPS Navigation, map display, graphical display, s peaker, s cheduler , watch, and SDcards.

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