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Without knowing a single thing about the physics involved in either systems, I'd be very sceptical the power output's anything like enough. Not least because if it was it's surely something they'd have built into mobile devices already. Something that tops up the battery of your mobile just from being carried around the place would be fucking genius if it was worthwhile, so I presume it's not.

Yeah I think the output of the kinetic system is micro amps at best.

I want one of those bands that tracks distance, heart rate and so on. When I went to the doctor he said my heart rate and blood pressure were low, but that it might have been that I was unwell. I've been recommended an app that tracks your heart rate quite accurately and it send to suggest that my heart is just slower than average, but obviously I only use it in quiet moments, as I don't think if it when go out walking and so forth. I have heard such mixed reviews, though, so I'm unsure of what to believe.

The app is cool, mind

I tend to use my heart all the time, especially when walking.

I mostly only use mine when making impassioned speeches about the environment. Other times I'm mostly Lego.

Finally wrangled a demo of one of these.

A beard?

A face. He's done really well in life for someone with no skin on his skull.

I had a very brief play with Google Glass last week. Gave me a headache

I have the same one and yes its cool since it just shines a light on your finger and gets everything else from there.

you should *never* google anything health related but the average for heart rate should be from 60 to 100 and many top athletes have lower 'resting' rates apparently

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-livin ... q-20057979

My resting heart rate is 56 - BOOM.

Mines 50 just now. But it was usually about 42 when I was doing more running and stuff. I even asked one of our cardiology chaps if it was anything to worry about since I'm pretty fucking far from being a top athlete. He said it was probably ok.

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42? Were you in a coma?

I just just had a look on my Garmin software to make sure and it was actually 46-48 when I'd checked it at rest. Still very low, though. Just checked it again now and it's up at 60.

Thats just the stress from worrying that 40 is too low :-)

Well goodness gracious me.

Thank fuck for that.

Should be more details of the Moto 360 released today at the google I/O event.

I've seen one of the Wear smartwatches but I was too shy to ask for a demo.

I hope you feel ashamed.

I'd love a smart watch if they made ones that looked like a nice watch instead of an 80s calculator watch.

So, the Moto 360 then?

Not available today, though

"later this summer" apparently.

So, as promised at I/O, the first two wearables are on the play store: https://play.google.com/store/devices/c ... id_wear_gb

£159 for the LG G and £169 for the Samsung Gear Live.

Those are quite encouraging prices.

I'm really tempted to get one even though I've got no solid use case for it. Hmmm.

I think I'm going to wait for the 360, because it's prettier and I'm vain.

Unless it's rubbish, I suppose.

http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/6/25/58 ... twatch-yet

It looks a bit big though...

If I didn't think there was a chance I could blag one, I might actually open my wallet for one of those.

Maybe you can ask Grim...'s Google insider.

Conspiracy theory of the day #76

Google held back the releases of the moto360 so as to get some sales of the other smartwatches available on the play store, as they know that when the 360 is released it will destroy the others in terms of sales.

http://www.droid-life.com/2014/06/25/io ... gear-live/

70% of 11000 android geeks polled, are waiting for the Moto 360. 12% are buying either of the LG or Samsung.

Me too.

I hope the $400 rumour turns out to be wrong

They'd be crazy if they aren't true after that poll.

I've seen my boss try to hold a conversation with his watch. He looks like a bellend.

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KITT! Remind me to fire Craster in the morning.

Are the two sentences related?

Obviously not, or he'd have used a semicolon.

September 4th is the next rumoured Moto 360 release date announcement. How soon after that date that they will actually be for sale though...

That's not summer. Lying cunts.

We were talking about Google Glass in the office the other day (I had a copy of PC Pro with me that had a front page story about it), and we all agreed that if we had anyone stood in front of us wearing GG we'd just flat out refuse to say a fucking word to them until they took it off, turned it off, and put it in their pocket.

Creepy shit. No wonder out in the States they're getting banned from many places.

What do you think it does?

It can record things!

So can your Nexus 5.

Why would someone spend £1000 on a highly visible device that can do a crappy job of recording you secretly when they could spend £8 on a hidden camera you'd never notice instead?

Nexus 5 (or similar) - To record video it has to be pointing at what you want to record, (i.e. a 'traditional' camera scenario which everyone has understood ever since photography was invented), I agree it could record audio surreptitiously but then you're using it as a secret device which is a different scenario and betrays the trust of those around you.

Hidden Camera - Like using the Nexus to secretly record audio, hidden device that is already secretive and snidey. There's nothing you can do about that and the person who deployed it is also betraying trust.

Google Glass - By definition it's pointing at everything the owner is, all the time. It's creepy.

It's the 'always on' nature of GG that we all found a bit discomfiting and weird, and we all agreed we really wouldn't like to see them start popping up in the office, or indeed anywhere else. (Which might seem odd, as we're a tech department.)

It's like that episode of Black Mirror where they've all got that 'grain' thing implanted which records everything all the time. (I know GG doesn't do that, yet.)

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/blac ... /49114-003

Google Glass isn't always on. It only has about 1.5-2 hours of battery life for continuous use, so it wouldn't be much use if it was.

And there are (sadly) plenty of examples of people using cell phones to surreptitiously record people in public. Google for "creepshots" if you must.

I appreciate that but we were talking about the concept of the thing as much as the actual device as it stands at this moment in time, because the technology will obviously improve. (PC Pro were very clear on its myriad limitations.)

It was the concept of even a substantial minority of people walking around with such a device strapped to their heads that was capable of recording everything that the wearer was seeing and hearing that we didn't like.

We're a pretty tight-knit team, (there are six of us including a line manager when we're all in), and we were all agreed that if one of us were sat there wearing a GG, it would make us uncomfortable to the extent that we'd be like, 'Please take that thing off your head'.

Surely GG would be banned in the office for fear of recording and dissertation of corporate secrets. No photos are allowed in my office.