This looks really cool, but I worry about the battery life of these devices. Doesn't the Galaxy Gear already have not amazing battery life?
My Pebble has a battery life of 7 days and that's one of the biggest benefits compared to Galaxy Gear.
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#42The commerical, PoC is great. But its idea has the same flaw as Facebook Paper ( https://www.facebook.com/paper ). I can check the weather, get alert and listen to my music from my smartphone. I can enjoy some home automation with Canary ( http://canary.is/ ). If I have free time I can design my own app and integrate a speech recognition to open the door (I am sure there are companies selling this too). What unique "…
That's an argument against all smartwatches, not just Google. Nevertheless, I think you're wrong. I have a Pebble and it has changed my life. I will never leave the house without a wearable on my arm again.
In what ways has it changed your life?
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#43I'm far more interested in how we're going to solve issues like battery life with these devices than how they're going to look. So yes, this preview looks great. But for now I still consider my Pebble watch to be a much better option.
Wireless charging. Supposedly, pCell's new RF beamforming technology with their picocells is able to also transmit power by "beamforming" electromagnetic fields.
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#44Not sure why but saying 'Ok Google' feels a little creepier than saying 'Ok Glass'. More obvious that you aren't interfacing with a mere gadget, but a multi billion dollar corporate entity...
"Ok Jarvis" works as well, if that comes off as less creepy.
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#45I agree that software is secondary to current hardware concerns at the moment, but doesn't this effort make it more attractive for hardware experts to try and dive in to improve the wearables market?
They've already got a "ready to go" OS with which to prototype. Pretty awesome since I'm sure Samsung worked hard to get its Gear integration working. Maybe this will improve the number of players in the space? I'm all for efforts that help bring more options to the table.
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#46This is not wearables. It is just a tiny screen mobile device. I'd consider labeling Google Glass a wearables before what was demoed here.
Wearables is the idea of changing what we wear with technological augmentation. Watches have had tech for a long time....nothing new here sadly....
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#47It's going to be pretty great now that everyone has shown their "huge black square on the wrist" design before apple has shown anything. Looking forward to seeing them scramble to steal apples design.
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#48I can't help but think of this as a pimped out house arrest ankle bracelet.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
True - but that I would argue is a slightly different thing. Referring to a thing is not the same as addressing the thing. Would Siri have been as successful were it to be addressed as Apple?
Yeah, I guess it makes you sound like a tool, but I'm not sure what unique phrase would work better.
As a person who finds both "okay, Glass" and "okay, Google" to be somewhere on a spectrum from merely awkward to full-on creepy, I would just prefer people could set their own custom keywords.
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#50We're throwing a IoT/Wearables Hackathon in april. Check it out: http://hackendo.techendo.co/