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Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by sevia »

frio wrote: post #153
fab13n wrote: post #141

We're in a situation comparable to smartphones pre-iPhone: we know there is value in displaying stuff on your wrist, we know we need some way to send information in response to those received from the screen, but all of this doesn't click together. We have fragments of a solution, but we don't know which problem it solves, and certainly not how to integrate it into a life-enhancing experience. Smartphone builders had…

Looking at all these things -- workmate has a Galaxy Gear, I've got a Pebble, another friend has a Basis B1 -- they're all so tall and clunky. They're uncomfortable and not particularly useful. The obvious answer, IMHO, is just a phone on your arm. I'm looking forward to the device that stops trying to pack things into a watch form-factor; that makes use of curved OLED displays, and puts a longer, thinner device on m…

I hope that the idea of separating I/O from computing gains traction in the next few years. Dropbox, Google Docs/Drive, app stores, etc. all prove that there's demand for true cloud computing at the hardware level (unlike the web-based kludges currently offered).

I'm imagining a world where monitors, keyboards, touchscreens, etc. are all just dumb devices with a network connection, interfacing with a nearby server, which acts as a hypervisor platform for nearby peoples' operating systems (which might 'follow' a person from home, to work, to the grocery store). Brushing aside privacy issues, it almost seems feasible - and infinitely preferable to the fragmented mess we have now.

Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by atrilumen »

Kiro wrote: post #69
hanley wrote: post #42

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In what ways has it changed your life?

* My phone is on permanent silent mode. * I never miss a call. * When biking I know if I need to stay and bring out the phone just by glancing my wrist. * It's very convenient to be able to read texts and emails on your wrist (this is even better than you imagine). * Great for meeting notifications. * If I leave the phone on my desk I still see when people call (several times I've catched calls by running to my desk…

When do you charge it? (Sounds like you wear it 24/7.)

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Post by BugBrother »

DominikR wrote: post #146
hugofirth wrote: post #66

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It is odd - there was uproar around the Russian propaganda laws regarding Homosexual relationships running up to the winter olympics (and rightly so! I am not suggesting otherwise). Yet, I (who, perhaps arrogantly, consider myself fairly well informed) had absolutely no idea that homosexuality is illegal in India. This is wtf-worthy.

Such media campaigns are only for enemies of the US, not for allies like India or Saudi Arabia. (where the punishment for having homosexual intercourse is death by beheading)

I am tired of all similar conspiracy theories posted the last week in .se comment fields with very bad Swedish. I am going to answer this.

If Russia was mistreated in Western media, Putin would have been burned in effigy every day for a decade in every city in the west over e.g. this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War_crimes_and_t...

"On October 21, 1999, a series of Russian ballistic missile strikes on central Grozny killed at least 137 people, mostly civilians, and injured hundreds. The missiles hit the city's main marketplace, a maternity hospital and a mosque."

And other points listed on that page, which has never really been discussed in western media.

But I guess Wikipedia, HRW et al are in on Obama's homosexual conspiracy? :-)

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Post by userbinator »

DSingularity wrote: post #98
svenkatesh wrote: post #19

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Moore's law is about transistor count; what does that have to do with battery life?

Everyone is interested in maintaining the growth in compute devices diversity and capabilities that Moore's Law has enabled in the past decade. To do that we need to continue to pack more and more transistors on chips. As you pointed out, todays problem is not the transistor size, but rather it is the energy consumption. Both dynamic and static power are not decreasing proportionally with node size, and therefore we…

Software is another part of the equation - how can the overall efficiency be better if the increase in energy efficiency is being counteracted by increasingly less efficient software using more computations to perform a given task? Exponential increases in hardware have not translated to anywhere near the same gains for overall productivity in average use cases.

Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by hawkharris »

Asking me to strap a computer to my risk is like assigning me homework: it requires a new way of thinking and interacting.

Having said that, I'd better see a significant improvement over using other interfaces. That's why I'm at least initially disappointed with the Android watched.

I get that we all love new interfaces because they're new and fun to play with, but what will this watch do for me that my smartphone can't do?

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Post by smokinjoe »

CodeMage wrote: post #169
smokinjoe wrote: post #54

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More and more I'm thinking that some sort of Digital Bill of Rights is necessary to carry on in this technological-based World. At first I always thought of it as a nice thing, but perhaps a little too abstract or extreme to really do what it needs to do. However now we have some very large and real threats to our personal lives via this medium. I just feel like it makes a lot of good sense to produce something of th…

Call me defeatist, but when I see an existing Bill of Rights being violated so frequently and carelessly, I don't think a new Bill of Rights would be a solution.

It has always been violated, fortunately we have organizations that take up various fights and do what they can in order to re-establish some sort of order.

Unfortunately while it doesn't always work out, that doesn't mean you scrap the whole idea.

Currently us citizens literally have nothing to combat our Government essentially having their way with the Internet to get at our data. This is an issue to both the individual but also groups/companies.

We need something, anything to use for defense.

Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by hawkharris »

Sorry for the typos; I wrote this on my phone and can't edit it. Also, I should note that I'm putting myself in others' shoes with the "homework" analogy. I'm a geek, so I don't mind learning about technology for tech's sake, but the same isn't true for most non-developers.

Re: Android coming to wearables

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Post by jamesfranco »

I have 3 question:

1. Will this only work with Android phone for now?

2. Do you agree that smart watches are more for apps that don't need a lot of user interaction. Like Instagram or Dropbox will not be great on these. Simple things like showing weather etc. will be okay.

3. Does anyone know the price of the Moto G or another Android Wear devices?

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