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Smartwatches have been growing in popularity, albeit slowly, for the last couple of years, and so companies are starting to feel the need to cater to users of these mobile devices. Today, Spotify is joining the list of Apple Watch apps by giving users the ability to listen to their favourite music and control playback without reaching for their phone. The music streaming service, which started testing its Apple Watch app earlier this month, has pushed out a first version that offers the ability to play music on the Apple Watch and control how music is played to Spotify Connect-compatible devices. Spotify has also included complications. The new app doesn"t, however, allow you to sync songs for offline playback, and you can’t directly stream songs to the Apple Watch from your phone or LTE on the watch. The app essentially replaces the “Now Playing” screen on the Apple Watch and gives you a refined way to control songs being played on your iPhone or Spotify Connect-compa...

Alongside the Galaxy Note 9, Samsung also announced a new smartwatch: the Galaxy Watch. The Galaxy Watch isn"t Samsung"s first wearable, but it"s the first with the Galaxy brand name - in the past, Samsung"s smartwatches have been under the "Gear" branding. "Galaxy is a huge brand and very well known brand, meant to represent the best of the best products," Alanna Cotton, senior vice president and general manager at Samsung Electronics America, explains. "This next level version is about bringing the best solutions to this device." The Galaxy Watch has two stand-out features: battery life (Samsung says it can get up to four days, depending on the watch size), and a rotating bezel, which allows you to control the watch without always needed to use the touchscreen display.           Besides those features, the Galaxy Watch is a fitness-focused smartwatch. It will have 39 different exercises built in, will be able to automatically detect ...

The second generation of Snap Inc.’s Spectacles, released in late April , is now available for purchase via ecommerce giant Amazon. Snap Inc.’s new hands-free camera with the ability to capture photos—the first release only captured videos—quicker transfer of HD content via Wi-Fi, water-resistant construction, a sleeker frame and more options for frame colours and lens shades First-gen Spectacles were sold exclusively through novel pop-up vending machines before being sold online , but second-gen Specs launched on Spectacles․com before selling out. Now Snapchat is making its new smart glasses easier to buy than ever with availability on Amazon.com . The new model joins the cheaper and less capable first-gen edition on Amazon, so be careful which version you order. [caption id="attachment_11751" align="aligncenter" width="634"] The three new colors: "Onyx Moonlight," "Sapphire Twilight" and "Ruby Daybreak [/caption] The second-gen S...

After the spectacular rise and fall (and rebirth) of Glass, Google is taking another run at augmented reality smart glasses. Google is reportedly working on a standalone Augmented Reality headset that will use new Qualcomm chips. The company has outsourced this headset to  Taiwanese computer maker Quanta. According to documents obtained by WinFuture , the project is still in its early stages. The German tech site reports that the headset is in the early stages of development with Taiwanese computer maker Quanta. The headset, which is said to be code named the ‘Google A65,’ is supposedly similar to Microsoft’s HoloLens. HoloLens headset came out in 2016 and was aimed at training, design and industrial use. Google’s AR headset which is slated to be self-contained and powered  by  Qualcomm QCS603 chip, which includes an artificial intelligence programming interface that supports Android Neural Networks, Tensorflow, and other machine learning framework...

Spectacles version 2.0 is here Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, unveiled a new version of its  smart sunglasses , which records bursts of videos. It is a slightly smaller, water-resistant pair of sunglasses. The company released the first version in 2016 in stand-alone vending machines called Snapbots. Over 220,000 were sold, though many of them didn"t make it off the shelf. The new Spectacles look incredibly similar to Snap’s original glasses- Snap chat version 1.0- and are sold through vending machines at launch. You can’t buy the new pair at a vending machine stand— only at Snapchat’s own website, Spectacles.com — but they offer a few new features that the original pair never had. Here"s a quick overview of the features: You can take pictures with the new Spectacles. The original version only recorded video. That"s a plus. The new Spectacles are water-resistant up to 1 meter deep and for about 30 minutes at a time, according to a spokespe...