ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. Wearables come in lots of shapes and sizes for limbs, fingers and faces now. All the choices and options speak to the same thing: Very soon, mainstream consumers will use and relate to their technologies...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.With new technologies like wearable devices starting to break into the mainstream, it’s easy to look at the old smartphone industry and proclaim it a big, dull dud. But as 2014 winds down, the year...
This year, wearable devices have branched out, extending all over our bodies. Tech companies have put “smarts” everywhere from our heads to our fingers, offering a slew of new uses that hardly seemed imaginable just a few years ago.Tracking your steps or sleep, answering emails, making calls or immersing ourselves...
Samsung may be known for wacky gimmicks—like its weird rap-music corporate video—pocket-busting smartphones and bizarre press conferences. But it’s incredibly serious when it comes to its future.At the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco this week, the Android maker and Tizen evangelist is laying out its path forward, and it...
Samsung’s much-anticipated Galaxy Note 4 was the least exciting announcement at its latest Unpacked press event this morning. The presentation, held in conjunction with the IFA show in Berlin, didn’t waste much time before unveiling a dizzying collection of other gadgets: A Note variation with a curved display called the Galaxy Note Edge,...
Facebook has made it very clear it’s no longer just a social network. It’s been working hard trying to compete with Google on several fronts: search, nascent technology markets, and post-desktop computing. Now that the $2 billion Oculus deal is closed, Facebook can beef up its focus on that third part of...
Google doled out free smartwatches running Android Wear at its I/O 2014 developer event today, but that's not all. The company also handed out ... cardboard. Yes, really. Google encouraged a room full of thousands of developers and hundreds of press-types to take little sheets of cardboard and fold them into...
Samsung's Gear 2Samsung has decided to augment its recently announced lineup of wearables—the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and Gear Fit—with another new smartwatch due out this summer, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.Unlike the previous models, the South Korean tech maker is reportedly working on a standalone smartwatch that...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.It was a big year for mobile in 2013, as it has been for the past several years.Smartphones took the first steps toward becoming hubs we can use to control our entire lives. Companies became...
Jaron Lanier helped create virtual reality, all the way down to "VR” headsets and handgear. Smithsonian Magazine called him an 1980s "Silicon Valley digital-guru rock star." Lanier was regularly featured in Wired Magazine, particularly during its early, glory days. Nearly 30 years before the introduction of Google Glass, Lanier saw deep...
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