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Wearable Android: Coming to a Wrist Near You
What do you get when you shrink Android down into a 32×36×12.5mm water-resistent package weighing only 22g, yet you manage to cram a capacitive touch screen, WiFi, Bluetooth, a bunch of sensors, and up to 32GB of storage? You get the latest in wearable computing, powered by your favorite OS*.At this event, you'll hear from Ted Ladd, who comes to us from WiMM Labs (the creators of this amazing platform), and you'll learn about what happens when you put Android on a wrist near you. Oh, and you'll also get a chance to win one of these puppies!
In
the last few months, several companies have announced and launched
wearable products with a variety of different hardware and software
specs, price points, target segments, and different business models.
This session will talk about the primary uses cases for wearable
technology, and then dive into the details of the WIMM platform from
WIMM Labs (www.WIMM.com), which combines hardware, Android software, and
web services to provide subtle, glanceable micro-experiences. With its
investor and partner Foxconn, the largest manufacturer of consumer
electronics in the world, WIMM Labs licenses the platform to consumer
brands to quickly customized and deliver wearable products to their own
channel. We'll have several devices to demo and give away.----------------
My overall impression is that this was a great new technology to start deploying BUT it's not a mobile phone nor should it be meant for one -- more like an enhanced wrist watch for receiving quick updates when you are not in a position to respond immediately. The speaker gave some great examples of how you can use this device for medical monitoring situations which I thought was very interesting.
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