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BMW will in let drivers park their cars in a multi-story by touching their smartwatch.
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Apple Watches are seen in a drawer at an Apple Store in Tokyo.
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Basis Peak: Basis Peak ($US200) is a fitness and sleep tracking wearable that also offers continuous heart rate monitoring and supports the GATT Bluetooth LE protocol to stream heart-rate data to third-party fitness apps such as Strava, RunKeeper and Endomondo. A TechHive reviewer experienced inconsistencies with the heart rate monitoring and said its "infrequent but still very real heart-rate dropouts are annoying." He concluded: "The real-time heart-rate tracking isn't perfect, but it comes close. And with automatic sleep and exercise tracking, and an improved industrial design, the Basis Peak is much better than its predecessor." A December Peak firmware update is expected to add smartwatch notifications.
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Will.i.am's Puls smartwatch.
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Trio of Pebble Steel smartwatches
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Qualcomm showed off smartwatches and other IoT devices powered by its chips at an event in San Francisco.
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Smartwatches: I’ve been pining for what’ve become known as smartwatches ever since I was a kid. (Thanks, Dick Tracy!) But the first generation of smartwatches leaves a lot to be desired. The vast majority of smartwatches—including Android Wear watches and the Apple Watch—need to be tethered for Internet connectivity, so you’ll still need to lug your phone around in your pocket. Alternative watches with their own cellular connections are bulky and come with their own phone number. What’s more, current watches have to be charged nightly—unless you’re using one with a subpar display—and at this point, they’re essentially there solely to serve you notifications you’re already getting on the phone in your pocket. Plus, at $200-plus for most models, and $350 for an Apple Watch, smartwatches cost more than a new subsidized flagship phone. Eventually smartwatches may evolve into a must-have. But for now they’re purely a luxury.
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Apple Watch
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Garmin Vivoactive
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Clear for Apple Watch Clear is an elegantly designed tasks and reminders app for iOS ($5) and Mac ($10), with a bold interface that seems well-suited for small-screen smartwatches. The developer, Realmac Software, created an Apple Watch version that lets you view to-do items and upcoming reminders and swipe tasks away when they're completed.
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Here’s your wee smartwatch keyboard.
Healthy smartwatch growth seen after slow 2015
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More traditional watch makers will enter the space to offer sleeker designs, Gartner says
