According to eMarketer's latest forecast, the number of adult wearable users in the United States will increase by 11.9% in 2018, reaching 50.1 million, accounting for 19.6% of the total population. Wearable device usage will continue to grow. eMarketer predicts that the growth of wearable users is mainly from smart watches. However, the overall wearable device market is still dominated by health and fitness trackers.
Wearable devices have been popular at CES in recent years, and at CES2018, these products are still worth our expectation.
Mi Wei, Keda Xunfei jointly released the world's first full-voice artificial intelligence headset
The world's first full-voice artificial intelligence headset, Mobius, jointly released by Mi Wei and Keda Xunfei. It is understood that the headset has four highlight functions, namely, full-voice interactive dialogue, intelligent control language translation, heart rate monitoring health guidance and travel navigation route planning and other one-stop basic life services.
Relying on the technical support of Keda Xunfei, the largest intelligent voice leader in China, Mobis is equipped with a wake-up, multi-round interaction, high recognition rate speech recognition and advanced semantic analysis system. At the same time, AIUI technology also enables the headset to have multiple rounds of dialogue, enabling it to accurately identify the natural language spoken by the user, responding to each wake-up of the user, clearly understanding each requirement, and allowing the user to completely liberate their hands.
Garmin stopwatch: There is another reason for not going out with a mobile phone.
Garmin has released the professional GPS stopwatch Forerunner 645 Music with built-in music playback. In addition to GPS and specialized sports, swimming, cycling and other sports tracking, it can also store about 500 songs in the body, and play it on the headphones through Bluetooth.
In appearance, the Forerunner 645 and Vivoactive 3 are quite similar. They are the first models in the series to have a stainless steel frame, so the track is not as sporty as the past Forerunner. Of course, Garmin Pay is also available. If it is used as a general smart watch, the power can last for a week, but if you want to listen to music and turn on GPS, there will be only about 5 hours left.
Forerunner 645 Music is priced at $450, and the regular version of Forerunner 645, without music is priced at $400. If you need Garmin's professional running watch function, and don't want to bring a bunch of equipment to go out, you can consider it.
Kate Spade launches 3 touch screen smart watches
Kate Spade has launched three New York Scallop touchscreen smart watches, one with a gold case with a black strap and one with a rose gold case with a leather strap. The last one is a bracelet. Modeling, these three watches are made of stainless steel.
The smart watch features a 1.2-inch OLED display with integrated ambient light Sensor and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100 processor running Android Wear 2.0.
In terms of design, the smart watch has no amazing place. The watch is equipped with a round dial, but its Kate Spade strap integrates unique design factors, and its dial is also surrounded by a ruffled pattern. .
The watch also supports the “choose your look†app, where users choose different system interfaces depending on their daily wear. The app asks the wearer about a series of time of day, the color of the jewelry, the color of the handbag. And the problem of the color of the garment, then generate a dial to become the color scheme for the occasion.
The bracelet style smart watch is priced at $ 325, while the leather version is $ 295, which will be officially launched in mid-February.
PowerWatch X: This watch is powered by body temperature
The smart watch, called PowerWatch X, is the latest release from Matrix Industries. The reason for not charging is not that it does not use electricity, but because PowerWatch X has a built-in thermoelectric energy converter that can be charged using the wearer's body temperature. The data can be saved automatically even if the watch is taken off.
Compared with the previous generation, PowerWatch X has added Bluetooth support for smartphone notifications. After all, this is a true smart watch. The watch is currently available for booking and is priced at approximately RMB 1,300 and is expected to be shipped in the first quarter of 2018.
Misfit releases its smallest smart watch with a 38mm dial
Misfit is a company known for making low-power sports bracelets and hybrid watches. At CES in 2018, Misfit released a new hybrid watch called Path, the smallest hybrid smartwatch ever made by Misfit. This watch with a 38mm traditional dial, like most smart watches, can count and remind you.
Path is the third hybrid smartwatch launched by Misfit after Phase and Command, and Path's 38mm dial is Misfit's smallest design.
Path does not have a built-in heart rate sensor, but it still counts steps, records the amount of calories burned by the user, records sleep and distance traveled, and all data can be synchronized in the Misfit phone application.
The user can use the mobile phone application to adjust the vibration mode of the watch, and experience different modes of vibration prompts in different situations such as answering the phone, receiving information, and receiving application notifications. The Path watch is 50m waterproof and comes with a replaceable coin cell battery that lasts up to 6 months.
Motiv Smart Ring: New features will urge users to exercise
The Motiv Smart Ring has made its debut at the CES conference last year, attracting a lot of attention and re-entering the public's vision.
This ring can record a lot of monitoring data, which can be used to calculate the amount of exercise you have in the most recent week.
At the same time, the Motiv smart ring has a new breakthrough in the function of sleep monitoring. Motiv's "Unstable Sleep" tracking monitors the number of times a user "turns over" at night and records the heart rate value of each "turn over" and the time of the measurement.
Motiv revealed plans for the next year – Motiv will bring more detailed sleep tracking and broader social sharing. The function of Motiv Smart Ring will be greatly improved in the first quarter of 2018. In addition to more accurate sports records, Motiv Smart Bracelet will also urge users to exercise. When users try to give up exercise, their sports achievements will be on social media. Being "exposed".
Qualcomm QCC5100: The new SoC blessing of ultra-small headphones is coming
Qualcomm has introduced a new low-power Bluetooth system-on-chip (SoC), the QCC5100 series.
The QCC5100 series is designed to help manufacturers develop a new generation of feature-rich compact wireless earbuds, ear-worn devices and headsets. To help meet consumer demand for superior sound quality, longer battery life and longer playback times in wireless audio devices, this groundbreaking SoC series will be used in voice calls and music streaming compared to previous single-chip Bluetooth audio solutions. Reduce power consumption by up to 65%.
The SoC architecture supports low-power performance and includes Bluetooth 5.0 dual-mode RF, low-power audio and application subsystems. The platform supports advanced features such as Qualcomm® TrueWirelessTM Stereo, Qualcomm® aptXTM HD Audio, Integrated Hybrid Active Noise Reduction (ANC) and third-party voice assistant services.
Libratone launches two wireless headphones
According to reports, Track+ wireless noise reduction earphones are superior in sound quality, lightweight design is only 28 grams, and equipped with the industry's latest second-generation intelligent noise reduction - CityMix II noise reduction technology, users can freely adjust the external sound according to environmental needs . The upgraded second-generation CityMix IITM technology supports the new “smart noise-modulation†feature, which uses two microphones on the headset unit and motion sensors to identify whether the wearer is stationary or in motion and automatically switches to the appropriate noise reduction level. The earbuds are IPX4 waterproof and the ergonomic earphones are designed to withstand sweat. Track+ wireless noise reduction earplugs perfectly match the vibrant lifestyle of the urban crowd.
At the same time, the track wireless sports earplugs were released at the same time. The shape continued the Track+ design concept, and it was lighter and slimmer. It also has IPX4 waterproof, which allows people to enjoy the sweaty sports accompanied by music. Although the Track Wireless Sports Earbuds do not have a noise reduction function, they support the Instant Enhancement of Ambient Sound in CityMix IITM. By double-clicking the button during a sport, you can hear the surrounding sound clearly without removing the headphones. This feature is very intimate when exercising outdoors.
Skully Smart Hard Hat: Provides GPS voice navigation
After being taken over by the new company, Skully confirmed that the new Fenix ​​AR locomotive helmet that used the previous AR-1 specification will be officially launched. This time CES announced the official shipment in the summer of 2018. The company also demonstrated the "prototype" of this latest hard hat product, which is equipped with a rear lens, a HUD head-up display on the helmet lens, and GPS voice navigation when connected to a smart phone. .
summary:
Smart wearable products have matured after several years of development, and with the maturity of various technologies, the practicality is getting stronger. As can be seen from the above, this year's smart wearable devices are dominated by watch bracelets. At the same time, we are expecting more products and higher sensor accuracy, and we hope to have more types of wearable devices.
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