With our world going from old fashion to modern, there are so many technologies that just keep being developed by dozens of manufacturers that you can’t even count how many are released in a year. So our topic for today is all about smart watches. First of all, do you even need wearables? Like the first sentence said, there are so many technologies that’s being developed, so why on Earth would you need one? To remain up to date with the latest technology? For your health? Or you just have so much money for vanity that you just spent on things you don’t even need? I mean, buying a smartphone or an iPhone, now that I’m sure you have no qualms in buying since you do need it, but do you know what the advantages of smart watches are?

They are WEARABLE. Sure there might also be disadvantages of them like the battery life, size, price and even the compatibility for other devices but at least it decreases the chance of you losing it because some of it are also waterproof although with a limited time in the water and limited depth of the water.

Here are the lists of the Top 5 Smart watches of 2014:

Every year there are changes in the world and nothing evolves faster in our civilization than technology. Scientists, technicians, experts and inventors are creating and experimenting for improvements in the name of science and then we get technology as a byproduct of it. There is now a new technology branch emerging – it is called the wearables! It is a fashion-inspired technology that is fast becoming a major global trend and we can even see it on the streets people wearing Google Glass or the Wearable Computer.

The Google Glass was invented and is being developed by Google’s R&D wing. It is one of the many types of wearable technology with an optical head-mounted display or OHMD that enhances your visual filed by projecting HD quality images and videos. Google Glass was originally developed and intended for “Explorers”, “Developers”, “Scientist” as well as “Photographers/Artists”.

However, there are of course uses for everyone, and everyone can certainly enjoy it, because it is a remarkably cool technology! The glasses are used to display information in a Smartphone-like hands-free format. The user or wearer of the gadget communicates with the device via natural language voice commands or a touchpad located at the right temple where you can manually tap in order to use it. There are also applications such as Google Maps, Google+, Google Now and Gmail; all of these are free and built by third-party developers but the future operational and market-ready Google Glass will feature so much more than these.  The Google Glasses are packed with:

Google TV has failed to take off as expected when it launched in 2010. Issues such as poor customization options, laggy apps and disappointed customers have led Google to discontinue the product. It’s developer tools and libraries will also no longer be supported and unavailable.

Google TV had been successful to an extent in gaining developer support. It incorporated Chrome and Android features in a 10-foot interface and a QWERTY remote which allowed users to use games, apps and play online video content.

“While the Google TV libraries will no longer be available, we’ve made it really easy to transition apps to Android TV using familiar Android development tools, as well as our new Leanback support libraries,” said Google and Android TV teams.

Android TV was announced only last year, showcased on the Nexus Player set-top box by Google. This week at CES 2015, Sony announced that all of its Bravia TVs will be featuring Android TV. More companies will be partnering with Google to bring Android TV devices. Google has already identified Sony, Sharp and Philips among them.

“We expect to see an exciting lineup of Android TV devices in the coming year, including TVs from Sony, Sharp, and Philips, as well as other set-top and over-the-top boxes,” added the teams.

Favourable reports have been coming in from CES 2015 in Las Vegas that the Android TV hardware has been featured on several TV manufacturers. Sony, Sharp and TP Vision have expressed support for Android TV. Support for the platform has also been confirmed by chip makers including Qualcomm, Nvidia, MediaTek, Intel, Broadcom and ARM.

Bugs may still appear sporadically on the Android TV, but there is little doubt that it is still far superior to the discontinued Google TV. It’s better hardware features make that possible alongside its simplicity and newer software to make Internet TV streaming advance even further.

Other manufacturers like Huawei and Razer have also expressed willingness to support the product.

Sony has unveiled a new model of its classic walkman series at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015. In the past year, many had speculated that Sony would be revising the Walkman.

The new Walkman ZX2 is priced at a whooping $1200. It was designed keeping high-end audiophiles in mind. As Sony says, this is “the fruit of continuous refinement in high audio quality technologies.”

The device supports high resolution audio playback and is packed with WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC for wireless streaming and connections to wireless speakers and headphones.

Many have fallen for the new design which resembles a smartphone having a matte black casing. The playback buttons are placed on a curved side, which is quite convenient for finger placement when holding the device.

Featuring a touchscreen, the Android-powered device supports Android apps which can be downloaded from the App Store. Android Jellybean 4.2 is run on the device which is two years old.

The reason for its hefty price tag is its S-Master HX processor. It enables high-resolution audio, but requires high-resolution audio supported headphones or speakers.

A variety of audio formats are supported by the ZX2 including DSD, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Apple Lossless and much more.

Last year’s Walkman, the NZW, had an 8-hour battery life and was waterproof. The ZX2 however has an impressive 60 hours music playback time of battery life. It has an internal memory of 128 GB and a microSD slot for extra storage.

Sony has not yet made clear when and where the new Walkman will be available for sale.

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The latest rumor about Sony Corporation is about its plans to launch a 12.9-inch tablet PC in the first quarter of 2015. Rumor has it that Sony’s new tablet PC device is comparable to the Apple iPad Pro.

This new 13-inch tablet PC will be Sony’s biggest Android tablet ever. The tech industry conglomerate seems to be stepping up to compete with companies such as Apple Inc and Samsung. While Apple is gearing up for the release of its 12.2-inch iPad Pro, which is expected to be sometime in 2015, Sony is preparing to give the iPad creator a run for its money.

This new Sony tablet PC is suspected to be sporting an LCD display size of 12.9-inches, a 3840 x 2400 pixels resolution, and will be bigger than both the largest Samsung Galaxy Pro tablet PC and Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 laptop/tablet hybrid. Sony’s newest tablet has supposedly been branded as the Sony Xperia Z4 Ultra. It’s 8.6mm thick with 6GB of RAM and it runs on a Qualcomm octa-core 64 bit processor.

The new Sony Xperia Z4 Ultra will also be featuring an 8MP camera and an HDMI output port. The internal storage size will be 64GB and it will also have Playstation 4 Remote playability. The price for this new Xperia Z3 Ultra tablet is said to be more than $1000 which puts it on the higher end segment of the industry’s market.

Pegatron, the company that builds surface hybrids for Microsoft and iPads for Apple, will be mass-producing the new Sony tablet PC, which only further confirms the company’s intent to compete with Apple’s soon-to-be-released iPad Pro, which has only 2GB RAM, an A8X processor and an LCD screen size of 12.2-inches.

Ever since the company’s 136 billion yen loss back at the end of the 2014 fiscal year, Sony completely ceased its production of laptop PCs. However, sources have reported that the electronics giant plans to pursue what it calls an “aggressive strategy” towards manufacturing tablet PCs as it heads into the year 2015.