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Wearable gadgets may help improve safety for gas and oil operations

09/10/201909/09/2019 Jorge Gonzalez

Gas and oil companies are evaluating the potential benefits of deploying wearables to workers. According to research conducted by data and analytics company GlobalData, wearable gadgets may improve the day-to-day safety and efficiency of field technicians in oilfield operations. The wearables could help to ensure safety and provide audiovisual assistance. The initial research conducted by GlobalData focuses on enabling real-time monitoring of field technicians to make certain of their safety and to deliver audiovisual assistance to perform asset maintenance. It is thought that this could be made possible with the…

Fashion may dictate the success of wearable technology

03/23/201403/19/2014 Media24

Virtual Fashion Shows wearable technology

Fashion has a role to play when it comes to wearable devices Wearable technology is gaining momentum as more tech organizations announce plans for high-tech glasses, watches, and other gadgets. While people have shown a lot of interest in these devices, it is still difficult to say whether wearable devices will become commercially successful. Wearable devices are often billed as convenient and cutting edge, but what may actually determine their success may be whether they can be considered fashionable. Fashion plays a major role in society as a whole. While…

Gadgets sales of the Samsung smartwatch break the 800,000 mark

11/20/201311/19/2013 Stephanie Beck

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The manufacturer has revealed that this part of the Galaxy Gear line has become the most popular device of its kind. Samsung Electronics announced, this week, that one of its latest gadgets, the smartwatch from its Galaxy Gear line, has become the most popular in the world among devices of this type. They have now broken the 800,000 mark in sales, after having first launched the product two months ago. This completely reversed the expectations of the industry that had stated that gadgets like this would fail because of the…

Gadgets continue to be released with Google smartwatch rumors

11/01/201310/29/2013 L. Green

If a new report is correct, then the device that has never been officially acknowledged will soon be unveiled. According to reports that were published in the Wall Street Journal, Google is currently in talks with Asian gadgets suppliers for beginning the mass production of its new smartwatch product – which remains a device that is only rumored and never officially announced, but that is believed to be in the later development stages. The report suggests that Google’s latest wearable device will be based on their Android operating system. The…

Gadgets from Samsung just keep coming, with glasses patents filed

10/28/201310/26/2013 Julie Campbell

Augmented Reality Glasses - AR and Education

It has been suggested that Google Glass may soon have a rival with these smartphone linked wearables. Samsung Electronics Co. has filed a patent that has revealed that it is looking into wearable gadgets other than the Galaxy Gear that it has already announced, such as its smartwatch. Now it looks as though a device that it is calling its sports glasses will soon be the latest wearable product. These sports glasses may soon provide this manufacturer’s response to the internet connected glasses from Google, called Glass. The reason that…