Google's Android Wear Gets The Jump In Smartwatches | MediaPost | Internet of Things & Wearable Technology Insights | Scoop.it

Android Wear may sound like a product tailored more for  RoboCop than consumers who still shell out the shekels but it’s the name of the extended Google OS that will soon debut in that “familiar form factor” known as the wrist watch.


The New York Times’ Brian X. Chen calls Google’s announcement yesterday a “pre-emptive move” against Apple into the wearable computer market, giving its hardware offering “a first claim on developing relationships with the many software partners — the apps builders — that help a gadget become popular.”...