In 10 Years, Your iPhone Won’t Be a Phone Anymore
Posted: June 25, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Activity tracker, Amazoncom, Apple Inc, Apple Watch, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, IOS, iPhone, iPhone 6, OLED, Samsung Leave a commentSiri will be the conductor of a suite of devices, all tracking your interactions and anticipating your next moves.
Apple Inc. will still sell an iPhone, but expect the device to morph into a suite of apps and services, enhanced with AI and AR, part of a ‘body area network’ of devices, batteries and sensors.
Christopher Mims writes: It’s 2027, and you’re walking down the street, confident you’ll arrive at your destination even though you don’t know where it is. You may not even remember why your device is telling you to go there.
There’s a voice in your ear giving you turn-by-turn directions and, in between, prepping you for this meeting. Oh, right, you’re supposed to be interviewing a dog whisperer for your pet-psychiatry business. You arrive at the coffee shop, look around quizzically, and a woman you don’t recognize approaches. A display only you can see highlights her face and prints her name next to it in crisp block lettering, Terminator-style. Afterward, you’ll get an automatically generated transcript of everything the two of you said.
As the iPhone this week marks the 10th anniversary of its first sale, it remains one of the most successful consumer products in history. But by the time it celebrates its 20th anniversary, the “phone” concept will be entirely uprooted: That dog-whisperer scenario will be brought to you even if you don’t have an iPhone in your pocket.
Sure, Apple AAPL 0.45% may still sell a glossy rectangle. (At that point, iPhones may also be thin and foldable, or roll up into scrolls like ancient papyri.) But the suite of apps and services that is today centered around the physical iPhone will have migrated to other, more convenient and equally capable devices—a “body area network” of computers, batteries and sensors residing on our wrists, in our ears, on our faces and who knows where else. We’ll find ourselves leaving the iPhone behind more and more often.
Trying to predict where technology will be in a decade may be a fool’s errand, but how often do we get to tie up so many emerging trends in a neat package?
Apple is busy putting ever more powerful microprocessors, and more wireless radios, in every one of its devices. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple Rolls Out Swimproof ‘Apple Watch Series 2’ with White Ceramic Option, Nike+ Version, GPS, More
Posted: September 7, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: Apple Inc, Apple Watch, Battery (electricity), Byte Magazine, California, Cupertino, Global Positioning System, Hermès, iPhone, iPhone 6, Smartwatch 1 CommentApple CFO Jeff Williams has unveiled the next generation of Apple Watch on stage at its big event today.
Apple CFO Jeff Williams has unveiled the next generation of Apple Watch on stage at its big event today.
The new model is called Apple Watch Series 2. Adding to the splash proof feature of the original model, the new Apple Watch is actually swim proof. Apple Watch Series 2 adds swim tracking to the Workouts app including pool swimming and open water swimming. The Apple Watch speaker is the only unsealed part of the casing and it intelligently ejects water after a workout.
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Apple Watch Series 2 features a new S2 chip with a faster dual-core processor and a new GPU with 2x graphics performance. The new display is also 2x brighter at 1000 nits, the brightest for any Apple display.
Built-in GPS is also included for outdoor running and walking without iPhone. Apple Watch Series 2 improves the pace and distant tracking and displays routes on the iPhone even when you don’t bring it along.
Apple Watch Series 2 adds a new ceramic (white) build option in addition to aluminum and stainless steel. Hermès is also introducing two new bands with Series 2.
Apple Watch Series 2 is also available in a new Nike+ version with a special version of the Sports band paired with the aluminum model watch. Nike+ Apple Watch is offered in four color options. Read the rest of this entry »
Jeb! Gets! Phone! Call! On! His! Apple! Watch!
Posted: January 13, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, Science & Technology | Tags: Apple, Apple Watch, Jeb Bush Leave a commentRepublican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was doing an interview with The Des Moines Register when his Apple Watch started going crazy. USA Today caught a video of Jeb’s reaction. “My watch can’t be talking,” he said incredulously….(read more)
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OUT: Apple Watch. IN: Implantables
Posted: July 31, 2015 Filed under: Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Apple Watch, FitBit, Forbes, Google, Implant, Implantible, Silicon Valley, Startup, Thync Leave a comment‘ It might sound like something you’d see in a science fiction movie, but my prediction is that in the next three to five years, implantable devices will become about as normal as wearing the latest watch.’
Bijan Khosravi writes: That is right, the implantable. In the past decade of tech innovation, connectivity has been the name of the game. Call your friend in the middle of the night in Antarctica. Facetime with your sister on vacation in India. Talk about the movie you saw with friends in London. Anything is possible with the push of a button and now with the Apple Watch, you can do it all with the twist of a dial. But this is just the beginning of what Silicon Valley has in store for us in the name of connectivity. We’re about to enter the next level of high tech innovation – connecting with yourself.
And the most efficient and accurate way to do that is with the next wave of sensor based smart devices – those you can implant into your body. It might sound like something you’d see in a science fiction movie, but my prediction is that in the next three to five years, implantable devices will become about as normal as wearing the latest watch.
The movement into an era of implantables is already in full swing with wearables and attachables like FitBit. These are just the first generation of gadgets that go beyond monitoring and measuring your body movements. Startups like Thync are pushing the envelope with their neurosignaling patch that uses low voltage electrical currents to alter a person’s mood and energy. Read the rest of this entry »
Taking Apart the $349 Apple Watch Sport Reveals About $83 Worth of Parts
Posted: April 30, 2015 Filed under: Education, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Apple, Apple Watch, Battery, Consumer technology, Display, iPhone, Processor, Sensor, Touchscreen Leave a commentBefore the Apple Watch There Was The Hewlett Packard Calculator Watch, Before That, The Seiko Watchman TV Watch
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Apple Inc, Apple Watch, Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IOS, iPhone, Microsoft, Personal computer Leave a commentBefore the Apple Watch, there was the Hewlett Packard calculator watch. And before that, there was the Seiko Watchman TV watch. A curator from our Museum of American History talks about the evolution of wrist tech on Smithsonian Science News
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BYTE: Apple Watch Prediction, April 1981
Posted: April 5, 2015 Filed under: Science & Technology | Tags: Apple, Apple Watch, Byte Magazine, computers, Future, Futurism, media, Miniature Computers, Science fiction, vintage, Wearable Computing Leave a commentSpiderman Testing an Experimental Jony Ive Prototype Superhero Edition Apple Watch
Posted: November 23, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Apple Watch, Comic Books, DC Comics, design, Illustration, satire, Spiderman, vintage Leave a comment时尚 Apple Watch Set to Appear on the Cover of Vogue China’s November Issue
Posted: October 9, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, China, Mediasphere | Tags: Angelica Cheung, Apple Watch, Jony Ive, Paris, Paris Fashion week, Tim Cook, Vogue 1 CommentMike Beasley reports: Apple’s upcoming wearable will appear on the cover of Vogue China’s November issue according to Business of Fashion. Several styles of the device will be worn by supermodel Liu Wen.
“Chinese people are actually very digitally minded and we embrace new technology and digital products more easily than perhaps people elsewhere…We are an ancient country but at the same time a very young country when it comes to fashion and new products. We love to embrace everything that is new, modern and positive.”
— Vogue China EiC Angelica Cheung
This comes just a few weeks after Apple’s one-day-only special showing of the Apple Watch during Paris Fashion Week, proving that the company is taking a much more direct approach to the fashion world. Read the rest of this entry »