Daily Archives: March 10, 2016

Q Motion is Fossil’s first wearable that tracks sleep

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Watch and accessories company Fossil has updated its Q series of wearables with a new device. Dubbed Q Motion, the wearable is basically a cylindrical shaped tracker that not only tracks user’s activity, but sleep, too – making it the first wearable fitness device from Fossil to do so.

Being an activity tracker, the Q Motion obviously tracks your movements. In addition, it also vibrates whenever user receives smartphone notifications – the device is capable of filtering notifications through its companion app installed on the user’s phone.

The wearable also includes a “smart tap” feature that, as the name suggests, lets you tap on the device a set number of times to initiate actions like playing music on your phone, finding your phone, and taking a selfie.

The Q Motion will be on display at SXSW next week. It will go on sale sometime this summer carrying a $95 price…

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Samsung Z1 successor reportedly in the works

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Samsung has outed a couple of Tizen-powered phones until now: the modestly-specced Z1 and a comparatively more powerful (although still entry-level) Z3. While the former was launched back in January last year, the latter arrived in October. Now, there are reports that a successor to the Z1 is in the works.

Samsung Z1

The Z1(2016) is said to carry a model number of SM-Z150, and feature an AMOLED display like the Z3. Aside from this, nothing else is currently known about the handset, including when it’s going to be available and what price tag it will carry.

The report comes just a few weeks after an SM-Z510 – which is alleged to be the Samsung Z5 – was spotted listed on Zauba. Assuming that the Z1(2016) and the alleged Z5 are different phones, the latter could well be the successor to the Samsung…

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How a Crowd Science Geiger Counter Cast Light On the Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Mystery

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In the weeks and months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, hackers and computer programmers formed Safecast and started constructing their own, crowdsourced Geiger counter. The device, and the power of crowd science, helped shed light on how serious the situation actually was.

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Samsung announces global launch of its Galaxy S7/S7 edge flagship smartphones

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While it was already confirmed that Samsung’s newest flagship smartphones – the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge – will officially go on sale starting March 11, the company has now made a formal announcement in this regard.

“Samsung Electronics today announced the commercial launch of its new Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge around the globe including US, Europe, Singapore, Australia and Korea, starting from today,” the South Korean tech giant said in a post on its website today.

In case you missed, Samsung’s mobile chief Koh Dong-jin has already confirmed that the handsets will be available in 60 countries in the first wave of their global launch. Just yesterday, he revealed that pre-orders for the devices have been stronger than what the company was…

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