uBirds displays their vision of the smartwatch, successfully funded on Kickstarter, they conceal the electronics inside the watch strap itself, allowing the user to use whatever watch they prefer as long as they buy the uBirds Smart strap. Based in Warsaw, Poland, uBirds’ concept belt is displayed to be very flexible without breaking, with thickness claimed to go down in the production version. Using an STM32L1 series ARM Cortex-M3 MCU, the uBirds strap also features NFC and input based on taps to the strap to control phone behavior. You can wirelessly charge it, it has a 3 day battery life.
Category: Smartwatch
Qualcomm CES 2016 booth tour: Snapdragon 820, 820A, 802.11ad, 802.11ac, Windows Continuum and more
Posted by – January 25, 2016
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Gaming, VR, Internet of Things, Smartwatch, Smart Glass, Speakers, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, CES, Android, Windows
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 is shown in a real phone in LeTV Le Max Pro, with Qualcomm saying that they have 80+ design wins for the Snapdragon 820 custom 64bit processor, now to be mass manufactured on Samsung’s 14nm process technology. Qualcomm also shows their Snapdragon 820 Adreno 530 GPU demos showing off high-end graphics, virtual reality and new display technologies, also Qualcomm WSA8815 audio technology for better sound coming out of built-in speakers for the Smartphones and Tablets market. Scanning people in realtime using Project Tango type structured scanner, IR camera. Qualcomm shows IoT technologies, Qualcomm Vive 802.11ac WiFi with multi-user mimo. Microsoft Windows 10 running on ultra-cheap Qualcomm 210, 410, and Windows continuum extending the Windows 10 desktop from the phone through to the external display using USB Type-C. Qualcomm Atheros Multi-Gigabit 60Ghz Wi-Fi 802.11ad included with the Snapdragon 820 LeTV Le Max Pro Smartphone! Matterport 360 degre camera supported by Qualcomm Ventures and other startups demonstrated. Qualcomm launches Qualcomm 820A for the automitive market and the modular system to upgrade the ARM Processor and PCB of the car to make it future proof.
Fraunhofer IIS Bluetooth Smartwatch Powered by Human Wrist Thermal Harvesting
Posted by – January 13, 2016
Mr Peter Spies from Fraunhofer IIS presents human heat powered smartwatch prototype at Energy Harvesting & Storage USA exhibition, part of the IDTechEx Show! Founded in 1985, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, Germany, ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning headcount and revenues. Fraunhofer IIS is the main inventor of mp3 and universally credited with the co-development of AAC audio coding standard. In close cooperation with partners and clients the Institute provides research and development services in the following areas: Audio and video source coding, multimedia realtime systems, digital radio broadcasting and digital cinema systems, integrated circuits and sensor systems, design automation, wireless, wired and optical networks, localization and navigation, imaging systems and industrial X-ray technology, highspeed cameras, medical sensor solutions and supply chain services. For more information see http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/ and http://www.IDTechEx.com
Omron Wrist BPM Smartwatch takes blood pressure on the wrist
Posted by – January 5, 2016
Omron is the worldwide leader in selling home blood pressure monitors for consumers to use by themselves, Omron Project Zero Upper Arm is a blood pressure monitor where everything is integrated, you put it on your arm, press start and in about 30 seconds it measures your blood pressure and synchronizes it to your smartphone or tablet. Then Omron releases their Omron Bloor Pressure Smartwatch with steps, calories burnt, distance and sleep monitoring, it can measure the blood pressure through the radial artery in the wrist, it inflates a little bit to measure the blood pressure on the wrist also within about 30 seconds by just pushing a button, making it easy to take ones blood pressure directly on the wrist! The price is going to be below $200 for release in 2016.
Podoor Design House and Factory Tour, Smart Watch, Air Mouse, HiFi
Posted by – December 28, 2015
Podoor is a software and hardware design house also with a factory located in Shenzhen, design and manufacture smart watch, air mouse, HiFi products, here is the video tour for podoor new office and factory. They also show the podoor H1 the MTK6260 smart watch for elder people with real time heart rate monitoring. You can check the video for podoor H1 and the previous podoor office tour here.
You can contact Podoor here: (Please let them know if you watch this video)
Anna Wu, Sales Manger
sales@szpodoor.com
Skype:anna.kedwin
Mobile:+86 139 2387 0899
$24 FlyShark BW140 Sports Watch 24hours Heart Rate Monitor
Posted by – December 27, 2015
FlyShark BW140 is a smart sports watch comes with low power consumption LCD display, with 180mAH battery inside, it support at least 3days battery life with display always on(it is very important always show the time for a smart watch) and support 24 hours heart rate monitoring.It is IP67 waterproof watch with wireless charging feature, comes with easily changeable strap in black, blue, orange colors. Bulk price at $24 for 500pcs orders.
Distributors can contact FlyShark here:
Mary Ma, Sales Manager
sales@flyshark.mobi
mary@gaoxin-digital.com
Mobile: +86 13714507573
http:// www.flyshark.mobi
http://gaoxin-mid.en.alibaba
Buy FlyShark BW140 Sports Watch here:
http://www.dhgate.com/FlyShark BW140
http://www.aliexpress.com/FlyShark BW140
Lembird Free3 MTK6572 3G Smart Watch Android4.4
Posted by – December 22, 2015
Lembird Free3 is an Android Smart Watch with IP65 waterproof, powered by Mediatek Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, runs Android 4.4,comes with 1.4’’ circular AMOLED touch screen at 400*400 resolution, with SIM card slot it can support 3G network and use as WiFi hot spot. With bluetooth4.0, It support vibration notification from incoming call. It also support hear rate monitor, step counting, distance tracking, energy consumption record, sleep depth monitoring and analysis from the customized apps. With 400mAH battery inside, battery life up to 2 days with display always on. Lembird Free3 shipped with 2 version, 512MB RAM,4G Flash or 1G RAM 8G Flash, with leather, metal or rubber different stylish bracelet.
You can contact Lembird here:(Please let them know if you watch this video)
Darren, General Manager
Darren@lembird.com
Mobile:+86 186 6699 4118
Heremi Kids Tracker, Smart Bracelet Design House Tour: $57 Heremi W7 Kids Smart Watch on MT6261D
Posted by – December 22, 2015
Heremi W7 is a kid smart watch powered by MediaTek MTK6261D ARM Cortex-A7, comes with 0.96’’ OLED screen, with SIM card, TF card reader and bluetooth 3.0, it support phone call with only families, with fire wall inside, it also can block the phone call from strangers. Heremi also designed the customized app for iOS and Android, you can set the families telephone books, see the locations of the kids, it will also alarm you if the kid is away the normal track. Retailer price at $57 from 1pcs MOQ, start shipping from November.
You can contact heremi here: (Please let them know if you watch this video)
Ella Zhang, Sales Manager,
ella@heremi.com.cn
Mobile:+86 180 0250 8281
Podoor H1 Elder People Smart Watch with Real Time Heart Rate Monitor
Posted by – December 20, 2015
Podoor H1 is a smart watch for elder people with monitor the heart rate all the time and upload to cloud, it will alarm which heart rate is not in the normal range, powered by MediaTek MTK6260 ARM Cortex-A7,runs linux OS, with build-in SIM card, it can make phone call and send message, it also have SOS and GPS features and send alert to children automatically while elder people fall down and need help. Battery life up to 5 days while display always on.
You can contact Podoor here: (Please let them know if you watch this video)
Anna Wu, Sales Manger
sales@szpodoor.com
Skype:anna.kedwin
Mobile:+86 139 2387 0899
RICE5 MTK2502 Smart Watch with GMS Phone Call
Posted by – December 5, 2015
RICE5 is a stainless steel smart watch with easily replaceable leather/metal watchband in IPX67 waterproof standard, powered by MediaTek MTK2502 AMR7ej-S,128M RAM, 64M Flash support Micro SD card up to 32GB. It support heart rate testing, pedometer, sedentary reminder, sleep reminder connect with mobile phone via Bluetooth4.0. with SIM card slot, it can support GMS Phone call now, 3G Phone Call features will be ready on Q2 2016.
You can contact RICE Here: (Please let them know if you watch this video)
Summer Peng
tina@szeastlonge.com
Mobile:+86 18927419257
UICO duraTOUCH water/sweat/gloves Smartwatches and Phones
Posted by – November 30, 2015
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Displays, Wearables, Smartwatch, Smart Glass, Sensors, Exclusive videos, IDTechEx, Android
UICO duraTOUCH makes it possible to use Smartwatches and Phones in any weather, with sweaty fingers, under the rain, snow, even while wearing gloves in the winter. As people come to depend on wearable devices and use them everywhere, users want touchscreens to work under any weather condition everywhere and anytime. UICO’s duraTOUCH projected capacitive (PCAP) touch controllers enable touch sensing to work in any environment, with rain, sweat, and using gloves also. duraTOUCH out-performs traditional PCAP that is in devices like Moto360 and Samsung Gear Live. It is ideal for wearable and IoT devices with super-low power requirements like 1X charge per week with wake on touch. duraTOUCH products include duraTOUCH controllers, touchscreens, and duraTOUCH Surface, a bendable wrap-able touch sensing surface. Look for this technology in the next generation of consumer electronics and wearable devices, you will now have technology that UICO previously shipped in millions only to customers in the heavy industrial and medical markets.
Flexible Haptics in Smartwatch wristbands by Novasentis
Posted by – November 30, 2015
Haptic feedback is one of the most important features of Smartwatches and other wearable devices. The Apple watch with its Taptic engine has one of the best haptic actuators in the industry but at the IDTechEx show, the folks at Novasentis were showing technology that aims to do much better. With traditional haptic technologies like LRA and ERM, they are bulky and provide just a solitary, universal buzz which vibrates the entire wearable device. Novasentis has invented a new technology based on electro mechanical polymers which is ultra thin, when they placed this in my hand, I could barely feel its weight, and the material is flexible. So instead of putting a big haptic device in the body of the wearable device, Novasentis proposes that you embed their haptic film right into the strap of the watch since is is so thin and you could have localized vibration and detect the all important patterns all around the wrist to understand different notification categories without even looking at your smartwatch display. This will enable thinner and lighter smartwatches without a big haptic engine inside. Most importantly, Novasentis material allows to offer a range of haptic feedback from very low frequency ‘taps’ to very high frequency audible ‘alarms’. Their idea is to create a haptic language and a wearable device could have as many as 10 or even 100 different haptic ‘feelings’ that a user can get used to and memorize and could get very useful information before having to turn to the display. Novasentis said that 5 OEM’s are currently designing wearable devices with their material and the company is currently raising funds to get their technology into mass production hopefully arriving soon to awesome Smartwatches and other smart device.
ARM mbed Smartwatch reference design with 2 months battery life
Posted by – November 28, 2015
Category: Wearables, Internet of Things, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM, Silicon Labs
ARM shows their open source hardware and software Smartwatch reference design with 2 months battery life runs mbed OS on a Silicon Labs EFM32 Giant Gecko ARM Cortex-M3 SoC and memory LCD, it also have an ARM Cortex-M0 for Bluetooth and an ARM Cortex-M4 for the fingerprint sensor. GPS, NFC, 9-axis sensor (accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer), ambient light sensor, capacitive sliders for UI scrolling, buttons and more are on the flexible PCB. The power consumption is around 70microAmps with the animation running on the memory LCD, the battery life should be about 2 month on a compact and light 160mAh battery. ARM is building open source experimental smart wearables to explore the potential of ARM in wearables and IoT, to encourage device makers to use all the latest ARM technologies in combination with innovative display technologies and sensors to to create better concepts, to better use technologies to try to contribute to and improve the internet of things and the wearables market. Some goals for better Wearables can be to last months on a battery, to connect and interact with all devices seamlessly, to enable new forms of trusted interactions and ultimately aim to fade in to the background. These advances are to be integrated into ARM’s open source mbed OS, there might be subsets of mbed OS, less is needed on the Bluetooth chip for example than on the microcontroller of the Smartwatch or other IoT device.
Developing this mbed OS Smartwatch reference design gives ARM the opportunity to get first-hand experience of the realities of building complete and complex physical products – the mechanical design, electronics, software and taking it all through the production process. ARM has taken a complete design from concept through to manufacturing a few hundred working units thus far, and learned a huge amount. This may inspire and encourage device makers to advance and innovate faster to make the Smartwatch market a success.
$70 Android Smartwatch and Scooter by ASCENT
Posted by – November 20, 2015
ASCENT ASP18 is a Android smart watch powered by MediaTek MTK6571 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, runs Android 4.4, with 512MB RAM, 4G Flash, 1.54’’ TFT screen 240*240 pixel, WiFi and Bluetooth4.0, it support vibration and ring alarm while you smart phone have phone call, msg, emails. Price at $70 for 1000pcs order. ASCENT also sell professional scooter, kids trackers.
You can contact ASCENT here:(Please let them know if you watch this video)
Elle Tse, Export Manager
as@ascentsh.com
$79 Android Wear on MTK2601 (mockup), MT6753 XTouch, MT6735 X550 by Bluboo
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Category: Smartphones, Wearables, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, China Sourcing Fair, Android
Bluboo shows mockup of their upcoming Android Wear smartwatch to be powered by MediaTek MTK2601 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7, with a round shape display, 512MB RAM and 4GB ROM, supports SIM cards, bluetooth 4.0 to be priced at $79, mass production will be ready on November. Bluboo also shows their full Smartphone product line from MT6735 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 to MT6753 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53, Full HD screens, big batteries up to 5300mAh. Prices ranging from $120 to $149.
You can contact Blueboo for more info (let them know you watched my video):
Candy, Sales Director
Candy@bluboo.com.cn
Mobile: +86 136 31535501
Skype: candywong68
$62 MT2502 Smartwatches at EZtechnic
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Eztechnic shows their smartwatches, they have 20 years experience selling traditional watches, now starting to design and manufacture smartwatches, with different styles, from stainless steel to plastic. Compatible with Android and iOS, displays notifications from phone call, message and different apps, heartrate monitoring is included, step tracking also. The EZtechnic smart watch is waterproof down to 30 meters, 3 days battery life, it does wireless magnet charging.
Distributors can contact:
Jason Liu General Manager
Jason@eztechnic.com
Mobile:+86 138 6931 2163
http://www.eztechnic.com
Jump J10 Transparent OLED Smartwatch
Posted by – October 19, 2015
Jump J10 looks like a classical watch but it’s a smartwatch with an amazing transparent OLED display that covers the top and bottom part of the watch face. With a Swiss Ronda movement, different style Genuine leather strap or steel Mesh strap, features split transparent OLED display and capacitive touch on the whole surface, it supports soft vibration notification from phone calls, SMS, emails, Social Network Apps, weather forecast, pedometer, and trackers and potentially customizable for vibration and display notifications from any app. The battery life is up to 5 days regular usage and 15 days standby. Jump is tuning the design for mass production around January 2016, custom designs and OEM orders are also welcome you can contact them below.
You can contact Jump for more information:
Saboor Ahmed, Director
Mobile: +852 63321453
saboor@jumptechnologyltd.com
$49 Android Smartwatch platform on Intel/Rockchip RK6321 dual-core ARM Cortex-A5
Posted by – October 15, 2015
Rockchip shows the cheapest Android Smartwatch platform, can potentially run Android 5 Android Wear (depending on Google’s approval) for now it’s just running Android 4.4.4 with Rockchip’s custom Android Smartwatch UI. This is an ARM Processor with an Intel logo on it! (which previously I filmed at http://138.2.152.197/?s=6321) To compete with MediaTek MT2601 it’ll bring ultra-affordable Android Smartwatches to the mass market with built-in dual-SIM card slots with dual-standby possible depending on Smartwatch design (most of the Smartwatch designs will probably only have 1 SIM card slot) , with A-GPS, GPS, GLONASS, with 3G/2G quad-band, supports displays of up to FWVGA, can record 720p videos at 30fps or take 8megapixel pictures from the Smartwatch camera! Meizu is probably going to be one of the brands to release this Smartwatch platform at a good price. The smart tracking possibilities for Kids trackers, Old people smart heart monitoring, Advanced fitness watches and a whole Smartwatch category in general, Rockchip with Intel wants to have a big part in that!
To develop and bring this to market, distributors and brands can contact design houses who work with Rockchip to make this Smartwatch platform, one of them is T-Chip, the info is here:
T-Chip PCB Design House (I filmed them here http://138.2.152.197/2014/09/17/129-firefly-rk3288-development-board-release/)
West
Email: mqy@t-chip.com.cn
Mobile: +86 13723459415
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E ink round Flexible Smartwatch display, dual screen, eBadge
Posted by – October 15, 2015
Category: Smartphones, E-readers, Displays, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, CEATEC, E Ink, Android
E Ink shows their latest displays for Smartwatches, Smartphones and more. Here are some of the solutions that they show in this video:
1. UHF Tag with Information display (Reference product from Hitachi Maxell)
2. 1.54” 200×200 EPD evaluation kit
3. 5.83” Spectra B/W/Yellow EPD evaluation kit
4. 5.83” Spectra B/W/Red EPD evaluation kit
5. 1.43” E Ink Mobius EPD
6. 1.1” E Ink Mobius round EPD
7. 4.7” EPD dual screen solution
8. 2.9” NFC eBadge solution – Battery less
9. Visionect – Joan 6” Conference Room Assistant (Reference product from Visionect)
10. 31.2” Monochrome Signage
11. 31.2” Color Signage
12. 13.3” Color Signage
MediaTek MT2601 for cheap Android Wear
Posted by – October 5, 2015
MediaTek MT2601 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 enables affordable Android Wear Smartwatches, let me know when you find some good models on the market so I can try to film them! I think this could enable $50 Android Wear Smartwatches out of Shenzhen, to be seen if Google/Alphabet allows/encourages it.
