no longer a rumor, its official now that these devices exist…
no we don't know yet what is inside of them
Samsung Gear Fit2 confirmed on Samsung's own website
Gear IconX also appears as S Health supported device
Wednesday
May 4, 2016
By Michael Sawh
@michaelsawh
The rumoured Samsung Gear Fit2 and the Gear IconX wireless earbuds have seemingly been officially confirmed; having already popped up on Samsung's own website.
The two new fitness devices are currently listed as supported accessories for the Korean company's S Health platform. There's nothing in the way of specs or pricing but we do get to see our first official pics.
The Gear Fit2 certainly looks more watch like than its predecessor and appears to feature a new textured strap. The image of the Gear IconX (below) appears to pretty much confirm the leaked images we reported on last week were the real deal.
The Gear IconX is tipped to be a fitness tracker and music player in one minus the trailing wires. It's expected to feature touch controls and will come with a dust and water resistant design. There's also going to be 4GB of onboard storage to pile on your music and a charging case to keep them powered on the move.
So it looks like Samsung hasn't abandoned its Gear Fit fitness tracker after all and. Last week, pics that were said to come from someone who's testing the next gen tracker revealed the the same 1.84-inch curved AMOLED touchscreen will still be in tow. It appears the overall design will be tweaked to make it slightly more curved and ergonomic.
Essential reading: How to use your fitness tracker to actually get fit
The biggest new feature addition, according to the insider, will be onboard GPS, so you can track activities like running without piggybacking off your smartphone GPS. That also means it's going to be more of a direct rival for theMicrosoft Band 2, which is one of the few fitness tracker/smartwatch hybrids to pack GPS.
Apart from that, there's not much else we know at the moment. There's a good chance Samsung would switch up to Tizen, simply because it's starting to show it more love with the Gear S2 smartwatch.
The Samsung Gear Fit2 and Gear IconX on the Samsung website
The first Gear Fit launched in 2014 with its curved AMOLED touchscreen and a built in heart rate monitor while Samsung made the odd decision to use a new RT OS (real time operating system). Here's hoping Samsung has addressed some of the biggest issues with its predecessor, which largely revolved around the software and the accuracy of the sensors. The battery life wasn't great either.
Images of the Gear Fit 2 recently leaked
There's no details on how much the Gear Fit2 is going to cost or when it's going to launch. The original device launched in February 2014, so it seems likely that we'll see it some time later this year.
We're also still waiting to hear more about the rumoured Samsung Triathlon budget fitness tracker after images of the device surfaced earlier this year. Clearly Samsung has plenty of wearable tech in development.
Shealth?
as supported accessories for the Korean company's S Health platform.
https://shealth.samsung.com
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Bob said…
One product was called an "accessory", while the other was called "device". The first customer was called a "top five", the second a "top-tier". Could this be a case of some creative writing by Mr. Paul McWilliam's in order to discuss both without tying the two together? Seems reasonable to me.
IF so, and IF the tier-one brings the product to market,
currently listed as supported accessories for the Korean company's S Health platform.
So they are calling both of these things accessories in the article…
fitness bands and ear buds are accessories and it will be coming to market as its Samsungs web site and they should know?
time will tell.
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
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Monday, April 25, 2016
A very nice thing to listen to is here...
So who makes the Fitbits?
Flex does and what do they have to say?
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/18/flex...owth-opportunity-in-wearables-technology.html
give it a listen- especially about what they are learning making the Fitbits....
"We work very, very hard for wearable technology," he said. "We try to work on the underlying core process technologies that enables wearables to happen."
QUIK, can you get the Eos into Flex's parts bin? And feel free to start with the BIG bins that holds the Fitbit parts
"
One of the primary reasons for McNamara’s optimism is the potential for new and interesting applications for wearable technology. We are already seeing professional sports organizations talking to wearable manufacturers about adding wearable technology to their player’s uniform in order to better track and evaluate performance during the game.
Hospitals and other health care facilities are also looking to wearables as a step forward in patient care.
With all this in mind, we can be certain that McNamara isn’t the only CEO placing a bet on the wearables market.
So who makes the Fitbits?
Flex does and what do they have to say?
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/18/flex...owth-opportunity-in-wearables-technology.html
give it a listen- especially about what they are learning making the Fitbits....
"We work very, very hard for wearable technology," he said. "We try to work on the underlying core process technologies that enables wearables to happen."
QUIK, can you get the Eos into Flex's parts bin? And feel free to start with the BIG bins that holds the Fitbit parts
"
One of the primary reasons for McNamara’s optimism is the potential for new and interesting applications for wearable technology. We are already seeing professional sports organizations talking to wearable manufacturers about adding wearable technology to their player’s uniform in order to better track and evaluate performance during the game.
Hospitals and other health care facilities are also looking to wearables as a step forward in patient care.
With all this in mind, we can be certain that McNamara isn’t the only CEO placing a bet on the wearables market.
Rick's snip
VUI = Vocal User Interface
I wanted to reread this Sensory Inc item....
November 12, 2015
A really smart guy told me years ago that neural networks would prove to be the second best solution to many problems. While he was right about lots of stuff, he missed that one! Out of favor for years, neural networks have enjoyed a resurgence fueled by advances in deep machine learning techniques and the processing power to implement them. Neural networks are now seen to be the leading solution to a host of challenges around mimicking how the brain recognizes patterns.
Google’s Monday announcement that it was releasing its TensorFlow machine learning system on an open-source basis underscores the significance of these advances, and further validates Sensory’s 22 year commitment to machine learning and neural networks. TensorFlow is intended to be used broadly by researchers and students “wherever researchers are trying to make sense of very complex data — everything from protein folding to crunching astronomy data”. The initial release of TensorFlow will be a version that runs on a single machine, and it will be put into effect for many computers in the months ahead, Google said.
Microsoft also had cloud-based machine learning news on Monday, announcing an upgrade to Project Oxford’s facial recognition API launched in May specifically for the Movember Foundation’s no-shave November fundraising effort: a facial hair recognition API that can recognize moustache and beard growth and assign it a rating (as well as adding a moustache “sticker” to the faces of facial hair posers).
Project Oxford’s cloud-based services are based on the same technology used in Microsoft’s Cortana personal assistant and the Skype Translator service, and also offer emotion recognition, spell check, video processing for facial and movement detection, speaker recognition and custom speech recognition services.
While Google and Microsoft have announced some impressive machine-learning capabilities in the cloud, Sensory uniquely combines voice and face for authentication and improved intent interpretation on device, complementing what the big boys are doing.
From small footprint neural networks for noise robust voice triggers and phrase-spotted commands, to large vocabulary recognition leveraging a unique neural network with deep learning that achieves acoustic models an order of magnitude smaller than the present state-of-the-art, to convolutional neural networks deployed in the biometric fusion of face and voice modalities for authentication, all on device and not requiring any cloud component, Sensory continues to be the leader in utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning technology for embedded solutions.
Not bad company to keep!
Since that item was written a LOT has changed.
Goog's machine learning computer for the first time beat the best Go player.
Amazon's echo audio focused device is now realized to be a whole lot more than realized as an IoT portal. It has the VUI that RIck spoke of.
These big pic events suggest that QUIKs hardcode of the sensory algos shows QUIK did the right thing a yr. ago, when they had to design the Eos.
The subjective probabilities have shifted because of this, to more evals, more serious interest, the tipping point could become a much more obvious event?
Sensory has more algos than we have implemented, so far.
The value of a well designed NNLE ( neural network learning engine ) is substantial?
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