Wearables at work will take off this year, says Epson

Many wearable devices to date have failed to live up to expectations – Google Glass and the Apple Watch in particular left many consumers wanting more. Valerie Riffaud-Cangelosi, new markets

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A digital necklace and a wearable soap win ‘Wearables for Good’ design challenge

A necklace that stores electronic health data to track child immunisation and a wearable soap that helps limit the spread of infectious viruses by encouraging hand washing have won the Wearables

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Enterprise wearables market to reach $6.3 Billion by 2020, according to Tractica

Enterprise and industrial organisations in a wide range of sectors are increasingly turning to wearable devices as an extension of their technology toolkits. Pioneering companies across a number of industries

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IAR Systems provides tools for new Atmel MPU series targeting industrial IoT and wearable applications

IAR Systems announces that the world-leading development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM now supports the Atmel SMART SAMA5D2 series. With its highly optimising build tools and comprehensive debugging capabilities,

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Gemalto to provide solution for Samsung Gear S2 with 3G connectivity

Gemalto, the specialist digital security, has provided the solution to Samsung Electronics for the launch of their latest Gear S2 . Gemalto’s solution will allow users to securely connect to

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Kickstarter campaign launched for gesture-based NFC Ring wearables

Start-up Company NFC Ring has announced that a new generation of NFC Ring wearables is to be crowd-funded in a campaign starting on the 1st of October 2015.

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The hype around wearables, separating fact from fiction

Jeremy Cowan, Editorial Director of M2M Now, shares his thoughts on which wearables look likely to take-off and those that seem more marketing hype than players for mass consumer adoption.

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MediaTek chooses Red Bend FOTA software to update wearables

London, UK and Taipei, Taiwan, July 1, 2014 – Red Bend Software, a provider of products and solutions for managing mobile software, with more than two billion Red Bend-enabled™ devices deployed, has

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