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WEARABLE COMPUTERS

Google and Epson glasses.

Imagine playing games, watching movies, calling friends, sending messages, navigating the worldwide web and controlling an automobile with a glass!

Rising demand of portable technologies has led some companies to deep research. Google and Epson came up with digital glass. Google glass for Google and moverio for Epson. In terms of affordability, Epson is bit ahead Google while Epson lags behind Google in term of glass functionalities.

EPSON MOVERIO GLASS
In 2012, Epson launched her very first revolutionary transparent display, moverio BT-100, which latter received a lot of comments from the world. It lacks some basic functionalities, no front facing camera and eyes movement sensors. This limited developers from developing apps on the glass.
To solve short comings of BT-100, Epson released the prototype of its next generational moverio BT-200. It is significantly small and 60 percent lighter than BT-100. It is completely transparent, features front facing cameral and with motion sensors with helps developers builds amazing apps.

The moverio has control units that runs updated version of android 4.0 ice cream OS.
MOVERIO BT-200 SPECIFICATIONS
Below are full specifications of moverio
BT-200:
1. Android 4.0 operating system,
2. Dual screen for 3-D display,
3. Front facing camera, enables Augmented Reality,
4. Larger, brighter display,
5. Motion sensors for capturing movement,
6. Two removable fully transparent shades.
7. Prescription lens,
8. Wi-fi and Bluetooth connectivity,
9. Micro SD card for external storage,
10. Textured touchpad,
11. 6 hours battery life.
Epson moverio BT-100 cost $699.

GOOGLE GLASS
Sergey Brin’s vision was brought to reality with the introduction of Google glass in 2013. Google glass is indeed a revolution to the world of technologies.
Essentially, Google Glass is a wearable Android-powered computer built into spectacle .
Unlike Epson moverio, Google glass does not have separate control unit. Its control unit is lumped to touch pad and speech. With Google glass you can perform the following tasks by mere speaking:
1. Record what you see and hear,
2. Share what you see with friends,
3. Send messages,
4. Cal friends,
5. Ask whatever on your mind,
6. Get answers without having to ask,
7. Get directions right in your front.
Google glass specifications:

1. Transparent Liquid Crystal on Silicon , field-sequential color, LED illuminated display,
2. Front facing cameral
3. Speech sensor
4. 6-hours battery life
5. 5-megapixel front facing camera
6. Touchpad
7. Android 4.0.4 and higher
8. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11
9. 16GB internal storage (12 GB usable)
10. 1.2Ghz Dual processor
11. 682MB RAM
12. 3 axis gyroscope
13. 3 axis accelerometer
14. 3 axis magnetometer (compass)
15. Ambient light sensing and proximity sensor
16. Bone conduction audio transduce

Google glass prototype costs just $1,500.

Introducing epson glass. It's as if google glass is taking time to reach the public, an alternative glass is out.
The new epson BT-200 is affordable. its a glass with a control unit that runs Android 4.0.
bellow is it's full spec,

Dual screen
6 hours battery life
Android 4.0 OS
Motion sensor
Front facing camera
Textured touch pad
micro SD card slot
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Visit www.epson.com to pre-order..

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Texas Instruments chip helps you stay on the road
The company uses a mixture of ARM cores
and ones developed in-house to assist
drivers
By Mikael Ricknäs

IDG News Service - If you want to avoid
traffic accidents or aren't very good at
parking, the latest SoC (System-on-Chip)
from Texas Instruments offers relief.
On Wednesday, the chip maker announced
the TDA2x, which will be used to power so-
called advanced driver assistance systems
that help improve safety and reduce the
number of collisions on the road.
The TDA2x uses a mixture of ARM cores and
ones developed by TI in-house to
simultaneously run front-camera
applications such as high beam assist, lane
keeping assist, traffic signal recognition,
pedestrian or object detection, and collision
avoidance, according to TI. Additionally, the
SoC enables park assist applications with
surround view and rear collision warning, TI
said.
To help improve performance, the TDA2x
can combine radar and camera sensor data.
Higher levels of integration combined with
better programmability and improved power
efficiency should cut the cost for car
manufacturers and allow them to put driver
assistance features in cheaper cars.