Published on Nov 9, 2015
In today’s episode we are highlighting 5 new wearable tech inventions that are paving the way to the future of technology.
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0:04 – Kerv – http://kerv.com/ – Kerv is the worlds first ever contact-less payment ring. Allowing for you to leave cash and credit cards at home while making purchases with the scan-of-ring.

1:22 – AMPL – http://ampl-labs.com/ – Smart backpack that doubles as a portable power station, cased inside of water-resistant material with durable shock absorbers.

4:20 – Orphe – http://no-new-folk.com/en/ – The Orphe smart shoes are not only totally stylish and rad, they are also perfect for performers and artists who want to add an element of illumination and synchronicity to their production.

6:16 – DrumPants 2.0 – http://www.drumpants.com/ – Drum Pants allows for you to take the show on the road without any heavy equipment. Rock, hip hop and other genres included.

8:21 – Rufus Cuff – http://rufuslabs.com/ – Rufus Cuff takes the idea of the smart-watch to a whole new level of awesome. This WiFi enabled wrist device is full Android powered with web, apps, and messaging. All on a 3.2-inch touch screen.
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Published Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:41AM EST
The fillings of the future could be bioactive glass, according to engineers at Oregon State University.
The futuristic-sounding bioactive glass is a crushed glass containing compounds such as silicon oxide, calcium oxide and phosphorus oxide. It has already been used for decades in some types of bone healing, however bioactive glass is new in the world of dentistry. Researchers believe that when used in composite tooth fillings it could prevent bacteria from attacking the filling, helping them to last longer.
This could be important news for the future of dental fillings, as more than 122 million composite tooth restorations are made in the United States alone every year.
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To test the idea, the team used recently extracted human molars to make samples that simulated the human mouth. Composite fillings containing 15 per cent bioactive glass were placed in some samples, and non-bioactive composite fillings were placed in others. Microscopic gaps were allowed to form around the fillings, before tooth-decaying bacteria were added.
The results showed that in the samples with bioactive glass fillings, there was a significant reduction (61 per cent) in bacterial penetration into the gaps, reducing their ability to attack the fillings. In the other samples however, with no bioactive glass, there was 100 per cent penetration.
Commenting on the results, Jamie Kruzic, a professor and expert in advanced structural and biomaterials in the OSU College of Engineering said, “The bacteria in the mouth that help cause cavities don’t seem to like this type of glass and are less likely to colonize on fillings that incorporate it. This could have a significant impact on the future of dentistry.”
Bioactive glass has this antimicrobial effect partly thanks to ions such as calcium and phosphate, which have a toxic effect on bacteria.
As well as slowing tooth decay, bioactive glass could also provide some minerals that could help replace those being lost said the researchers, making an even longer lasting tooth filling.
If the findings by Kruzic and his team can be confirmed by clinical research, Kruzic believes bioactive glass could be easily incorporated into existing formulations for composite tooth fillings to help prevent decay and promote dental health.
The research was published in the journal Dental Materials, and supported by the National Institute of Health.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/the-future-of-fillings-bioactive-glass-could-prevent-tooth-decay-study-says-1.2715025

Scott Kelly is no Mark Watney, the potato-growing botanist in The Martian. On Sunday, the NASA astronaut, who is spending a year on the International Space Station, tweeted a photo of the latest crop of plants from the station’s space garden, saying, “Our plants aren’t looking too good. Would be a problem on Mars. I’m going to have to channel my inner Mark Watney.”

The plants are part of a NASA experiment designated Veg-01, an effort by NASA to make its astronauts more independent of Earth by developing the technology that will eventually allow them to grow food in space. The plants are being grown in a special “veggie facility” with a calcined clay media. The initial test crops were primarily species of lettuce.

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AFTER 7 MONTHS, IS SCOTT KELLY WONDERING WHAT HE’S GOTTEN INTO?
On Thursday, the NASA astronaut sets a record for single US spaceflight length.
Astronauts had their first harvest of lettuce in August from romaine seeds that had been on the station for 15 months before being planted. After cleaning their crop with sanitizing wipes, astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren dressed them with balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil before sampling the lettuce. The space farmers declared their crop to be “awesome” and tasting “kind of like arugula.”

But now a new crop of space veggies appears to be dying. This information will almost certainly prove useful to space microbiologists and space food technologists at Johnson Space Center, however. Each plant is grown in a different “pillow” of media to find the optimal solution for growing vegetables and other food in space. With science, failure often reveals more than success.

Scott Kelly and the other astronauts have the benefit of regular supply ships from Russia, Japan, and commercial companies in the United States. When he was stranded on Mars, in Andy Weir’s book The Martian, Mark Watney had no such back-up. He had to grow potatoes or die of starvation. After seeing Kelly’s photo, Weir offered some helpful advice via Twitter: “Have you tried swearing a lot and setting things on fire? Because that worked for him.”

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/scott-kelly-unable-to-science-the-out-of-space-veggies/

Work on DNA-altering technology by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier is shifting the field of genetics

Emmanuelle Charpentier, left, and Jennifer Doudna are applauded by other prize winners after receiving the Princess of Asturias Technical and Scientific Research award in October in Oviedo, Spain.

By: Joseph Hall News reporter, Published on Mon Dec 28 2015
Move over, Watson and Crick.
Biologist James Watson and chemist Francis Crick made a Nobel-winning discovery of DNA’s double helix structure in 1953, widely acclaimed as the greatest single breakthrough in the history of genetics.
But now Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier — who pioneered work on the DNA-altering technology known as CRISPR — are shifting the field on a similar magnitude.
By outlining a method in 2012 that can be used to quickly and precisely edit the molecular blueprint of all life in sweeping fashion, the pair have gained a place in the loftiest echelons of genetics.
And in 2015 Doudna, an American from the University of California, Berkeley, and French-born Charpentier of Germany’s Max Planck Institutes began to reap the rewards and accolades that stemmed from that work.
Over the year, the glamorous biochemists shared a host of honours, including the $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize and the $3-million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (all figures U.S.). They were also named to Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Time called their work a “tour de force of elegant deduction and experiment” and “a true breakthrough, the implications of which we are just beginning to imagine.”
Still, the pair was passed over for a widely predicted Nobel Prize in 2015, perhaps thanks to a serious copyright controversy that’s erupted over their claims to the CRISPR system’s invention.
Since its arrival three years ago, another scientist — Feng Zhang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — has been awarded 13 of the 20-odd CRISPR patents that have been granted by the U.S. patent office. Although Zhang’s research was published in 2013, he was able to show he had been developing a use for the system in mammalian cells two years earlier.
Mice bred at the Jackson Laboratory.
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Mice bred at the Jackson Laboratory.

CRISPR, which is derived from bacteria, allows scientists to cut the DNA of any species at any desired location — to turn off genes or insert new genetic material into the resulting gap. CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — represents a primitive immune system in its natural bacterial hosts.
There, between short clusters of repeated DNA base pairs, the CRISPR stores pieces of genetic materials from invading viruses. If the same virus strikes again, the CRISPR will recognize it though this stored genetic signature and counterattack.
Three years ago Doudna, now 51, and Charpentier, 47, realized they could synthesize the RNA that is CRISPR’s guiding mechanism for virtually any organism and use it with an enzyme called Cas9 to alter that plant or animal’s genes at desired locations.
CRISPR is already being used in agriculture, forestry, zoology, medicine, pharmacology and a host of other biological sciences.
It’s also opened a Pandora’s box of possibilities for human genetic manipulations — stoking hopes for medical breakthroughs, but also deep concerns that our species could be altered in profound and unforeseen ways.
“I’ve called for a global conversation about the technology that I’ve co-invented so that we can consider all of the ethical and societal implications of a technology like this,” Doudna said at a November TED Talks lecture in London.
Prior to a major scientific conference at the beginning of December that centred on ethical concerns over the use of her technology to alter human sperm, egg cells and embryos in non-therapeutic ways, Doudna called for a halt to such work.
“It is very important to consider the unintended genetic consequences of making an intended change, because there are all sorts of genetic interactions that occur in cells during cellular development, especially in humans but also other organisms as well,” she wrote in the journal Nature.
Emmanuelle Charpentier, left, and Jennifer Doudna visit a painting exhibition by children about the genome in Oviedo, Spain.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier, left, and Jennifer Doudna visit a painting exhibition by children about the genome in Oviedo, Spain.

“I think just getting a handle on how a desired change impacts the function and development of an organism or embryo is going to be a big part of this, and it could be decades of work. But this needs to be discussed in the context of this meeting and future meetings so that we can really determine the path forward for gene editing.”
Still, the genie is out of the bottle. And at least in the medical sciences, CRISPR has already ushered in a raft of radical new research:
Tobacco as cancer cure?
Canadian researchers are using CRISPR to help transform the carcinogenic plant into a potent cancer drug producer. Pioneered at the University of Guelph, the technique uses bacteria-carrying genetic material that produces the antibody trastuzumab, which is the basis for breast cancer drug Herceptin. These bacteria are infused into the plants, where they embed the antibody gene into tobacco’s genomic structure. CRISPR is used to remove natural DNA segments in tobacco that would make it more likely for the trastuzumab to be rejected in patients. The trastuzumab is then extracted from the plant. Tobacco is used partly because of its ready uptake of foreign genes.
Five cancers:
University of Toronto researchers have used CRISPR to tease out genes essential to the growth of five types of cancer. In a November study, scientists at the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre employed the technique to turn off some 18,000 genes, one by one, to see which were most crucial to survival of cancer cells. By identifying those key genes, the researchers provided potential targets for drugs that would suppress the function of the cancer-supporting genes. The ailments studied in the paper included ovarian, brain, retinal and a pair of colorectal cancers. Researchers hope to use the technique to screen for genetic “Achilles heels” in other forms of the disease.
Research mice revolution:
New knowledge about genetics has sparked emphasis on personalized medicine — the idea that gene-linked ailments can differ among individuals and that each must be diagnosed and treated differently. This means scientists need more genetically diverse mice to determine which treatments work best on a vast host of alternate genetic signatures that can underlie a disease. Scientists at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., have used CRISPR to boost production of genetically altered mice from one or two new models a week to 50 or more.

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/12/28/the-crispr-scientists-who-are-altering-genetic-history.html

Drones seem to be one of the hot gifts this Christmas season, which is no surprise given the seemingly endless entertainment value they can offer. GoPro is primarily famous for its durable action cameras, and up until recently that has been their main business. However, given the natural fit for a small, versatile camera on a drone, their recent business ventures in that area make perfect sense.

Earlier this year, GoPro acquired Kolor, a company developing 360 degree video software to combine footage from multiple cameras into a single video. That company’s founder, Alexandre Jenny, is now working as Senior Director of Immersive Media Solutions at GoPro. Competitors in the market are working on similar technologies, but the other companies won’t be able to integrate their software natively with camera hardware like GoPro.

Another acquisition by GoPro is a small autonomous drone company from Switzerland, called Skybotix. That engineering team has five years experience with autonomous drones, and it can map indoor or outdoor environments in real-time with a set of cameras and positioning sensors. This technology will help piloted drones automatically avoid collisions and aid with navigation and flight planning.

There are several other well-known groups, including Qualcomm, Intel, the Linux Foundation’s Dronecode project, and DJI out of China all working on this sort of technology. GoPro is in a good position to become a powerful platform for drone-based image capture, but there is also a lot of competition.

GoPro is working hard on advanced drone technologies

For the past several years, carbon fiber has been seen as the Holy Grail of light yet sturdy materials that could pave the way for better performing, more fuel efficient cars. However, the cost of the material and the ability to produce it in the huge volumes needed for mass-produced cars have limited its availability to all but a handful of enthusiast and performance-oriented offerings, though that is starting to change with developments like BMW’s new Carbon Core technology that debuted in the latest 7-Series.

Now, researchers from UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering in Los Angeles, California say they’ve come up with a new metal which, like carbon fiber, is light yet “exceptionally strong.” In a paper published in the scientific journal Nature, the researchers state the metal is composed of magnesium infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide nanoparticles. The final mixture is about 14 percent silicon carbide nanoparticles and 86 percent magnesium.

Magnesium is already used extensively in cars because of its lightweight properties, but it isn’t very stiff. In contrast, the new metal has an extremely favorable stiffness-to-weight ratio, known in scientific circles as the “modulus,” and initial testing has shown “record levels” of specific strength (how much weight a material can withstand before breaking). This makes it ideal for structural purposes such as in airplanes, buildings, cars and even spacecraft, though the researchers say it could also prove beneficial in the mobile electronics and biomedical devices industries.

The basic materials that make up the metal are commonly found but the real hurdle was finding a way to disperse and stabilize the nanoparticles while the magnesium was in a molten state. Importantly, the researchers say they have also developed a scalable manufacturing method which can be applied to more materials than just magnesium.

Unfortunately, it might be some time until we see such materials used in car production as the researchers concluded that they are just scratching the surface of this new discovery.

http://www.graciouscolumn.com/experts-discover-new-super-metal-with-14-silicon-carbide-86-magnesium/25434/

A British couple has scripted history after they received the first of the two puppies cloned from their dead boxer dog.

Laura Jacques and Richard Remde, devastated by the death of their eight-year-old boxer ‘Dylan’, spent a whopping £67,000 to clone their dead pet at a South Korean lab.

The couple celebrated as Chance was delivered by caesarian section at Sooam Biotech Research Foundation. In the first case of its kind, the puppy was cloned from Dylan, almost two weeks after it died. The previous limit for dog cloning was five days after death, The Guardian reported.

The couple announced the birth of Chance by uploading an adorable clip on a twitter page they made for Dylan. “We are so happy. It went really well. We are just trying to let it sink in and come home now,” they said.

The pooch is feeding well from its mother as Laura, 29, said how she “lost all sense of time” during the operation.

Her husband, Richard, 43, said: “Even as a puppy of just a few minutes old, I can’t believe how much he looks like Dylan. All the colourings and patterns on his body are in exactly the same places as Dylan had them.”

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/british-couple-get-their-dead-dog-cloned/article8034423.ece

Your new Android Wear smartwatch has been unboxed, charged, and strapped to your wrist. What next? Setting up and using Android Wear is a simple process, and almost identical regardless of the model you’ve got. We can provide a comprehensive user guide on how to get started with Android Wear, to make sure you don’t waste previous time missing those all-important wrist-based notifications.
Android Wear is compatible with both Android and iOS smartphones, so we’ll be covering both during the guide. Watch at the ready? Let’s get started.
Related: The best Android Wear apps to download
Basic requirements and apps

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If you own an Android smartphone, it’ll need to run Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and above, with a Bluetooth connection active. For the iPhone, it requires iOS 8.2 and above, again with an active Bluetooth connection.
While almost any Android phone will work with your smartwatch, some older models struggle on iOS. The app initially only supported the LG Watch Urbane, but updates have increased the number of watches that operate with iOS. The list now includes the brand new TAG Heuer Carrera Connected, the Fossil Q Founder, Moto 360 2nd Generation, and the Huawei Watch.
If you’re not sure if your watch will work, Google has a special webpage which, when visited using your phone’s browser, will show you if it’ll run an Android Wear watch. You can find the Android Wear app in the Google Play store here, and the iOS app in the iTunes App Store here.
Pair your watch and smartphone

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Once the Android Wear app is installed on your phone, turn on your Android Wear watch. You’re going to need the charger to complete the setup process, so make sure you’ve got it nearby. Select your language of choice when prompted, then look for a Bluetooth pairing code and ensure it matches the one displayed on your phone. On iOS, enter it manually. Additional prompts will then appear for Google Fit and location data, which can be accepted or declined. If there are any software updates available for your watch, they’ll be installed at this time.
How to use Android Wear on Android phones

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Android Wear’s features and the supporting app differ depending on which OS you’re using. We’ll concentrate on Android here, and most of the usage instructions apply to iOS anyway, but there are differences that we’ll address in a later section.
Android Wear is controlled using simple gestures. There’s no onscreen keyboard, and actions are approved or declined using big, finger-friendly buttons. When you start the watch for the first time, or after a full reset, it’ll give you a quick rundown of how to use the OS.
Related: 10 of the worst Android Wear problems, and how to fix them
It’s simple: Information appears on cards, viewed by swiping up and down on the display, and dismissed with a swipe to the right. If you accidentally dismiss a card and change your mind, quickly swipe up on the screen to find a handy Undo button, which returns the card to the watch. Cards with additional information or more functions are explored using a swipe to the left. For example, swiping on the weather card shows the forecast for the coming days, then the option to open the app on your phone.
Tap the watch face and swipe to the left to enter the Android Wear menu. On Android, this shows three different menu screens, all accessed with a left swipe. The first is a list of installed apps, the second is a list of contacts, and the third is for Android Wear specific actions, such as Google Now voice control or step count data. On iOS, the contact list doesn’t appear.
Swipe down on the main watch face screen to see quick access controls for notifications. From here, you can select priority notification mode, or cinema mode for silence, and also adjust the screen brightness. Additionally, it shows the battery percentage, date, and connection status. To quickly dim the display, cover the watch for a few seconds with your palm.
Once you’re familiar with the basics, you’ll probably want to take a look at the different watch faces that are installed on your watch. This is done with a long press on the main watch face screen. Watch faces appear in a horizontally scrolling list and are selected with a tap. Some faces will have customizable options, accessed using a settings cog shown beneath the face.
Alternative watch faces

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If the pre-installed faces don’t present enough choice, others are available from either the Android Wear app or the Google Play store. On iOS, inside the Android Wear app, a small selection of third-party faces can be downloaded. On Android, there are hundreds of options available inside the Google Play store, accessed through the Android Wear app, or by a simple Play Store search.
Related: Best Android Wear watch faces
Downloaded watch faces are synced across to the watch automatically, but may take a few moments to install, so have patience. Unless the face has its own app that installs on your phone — the Disney Star Wars app, for example — there’s no need for any further action. When it’s ready, a notification shows on the watch, from which a tap will set the new face.
Download apps

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Adding apps to Android Wear is a similar procedure. If an app is made to run on an Android Wear watch, it’s downloaded as usual from Google Play. The quickest way to find them is through the Android Wear app by tapping the More button alongside the Essential Watch Apps section on the main screen. Let’s use Runkeeper as an example.
Find it using the search bar, install it, and the app will automatically transfer to your watch. A notification will show up when it’s ready, and it’ll appear in the list of apps under the main menu. Tap the watch face, swipe left, then scroll down to find it. Tap to start a workout. Most apps follow this process.
Share with a friend

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Android Wear Together

Using Android Wear’s Together feature, it’s possible to send an Android Wear-using friend images, emojis, and messages directly from the watch. This requires a quick set up from the Android Wear app, and it is only available on Android devices. Tap the cog at the top of the screen to find the Settings menu, then the Together option. From here, tap the plus sign or Pair With A Friend button to invite or quickly connect with another Android Wear watch.
Related: Here are the 5 best smartwatches you can buy right now
Once you’re connected up, you’ll be able to draw images on the screen to send each other, or choose from a list of emojis. There’s even a Together watch face to make sharing easier and faster.

On Android, your watch can control various functions on your phone, and it’s often up to you which app is linked to a specific feature. Let’s take the music app as an example. Open the Android Wear app and find the Tips section at the bottom of the main screen. Tap More Actions, and a list of apps that can be controlled using your watch shows up.
Find Play Music and tap it. If you’re a Spotify user and have the app installed on your phone, the option to control it from the watch will also show up, alongside Google’s own Play Music app, and potentially others, too. Tap it to select. It’s the same with fitness apps, on-demand ride apps like Uber, and for navigation. Taking the time to personalize your watch will make it more useful, so it’s time well spent.
Talk to the wrist

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Android Wear can be controlled using your voice, if you don’t mind shouting at your wrist in public. How well it works depends on what you’re asking, your accent, and the surrounding noise levels. If you’re up for giving it a try, then it’s simple to do, because it’s built right into the operating system.
Related: Watchphones are coming: Google updates Android Wear with cellular connectivity
Tap the screen to wake it from ambient mode, and the words “OK, Google” should appear on the display. That’s your cue to say exactly that. If all works correctly, you’ll get a listening icon show up, and a scrollable list of suggested voice instructions, ranging from showing the step count to sending emails and messages, setting a reminder, or opening the navigation system.
The list changes depending on the phone’s operating system. Android Wear on iOS doesn’t have navigation, or voice message support for example.
Add music for offline listening

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Many Android Wear watches have a small amount of internal storage memory, usually 4GB, which can be used to store some music. Then, with a pair of Bluetooth headphones connected, you’re free to leave your phone or music player behind when out for a walk or jog. Sadly, the music has to come from Google’s Play Music, rather than another app, but it’s better than nothing.
This means you have to start the process of adding music to your watch in the Play Music app. Open it, go to Settings, and look for the switch marked Download to Android Wear to ensure that it’s on. Underneath is a setting named Manage Wear Downloads. In here, you can choose tracks to sync with your watch from those found in your Play Music account.
Beware, syncing takes a long time because it’s over Bluetooth, so don’t expect to be out the door in five minutes if you’ve chosen an entire album to transfer. A notification will show on the watch when the transfer has been completed. From there, go to Settings on the watch, choose Bluetooth Devices, and pair the watch with your Bluetooth headphones. To play the synced tracks, choose the Play Music app on the watch, found by swiping to the left from the face screen and scrolling through your app list.
Connect to Wi-Fi

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Some Android Wear watches have Wi-Fi onboard. It’s useful for still grabbing notifications if Bluetooth is out of range, but your phone and watch are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. You’ll know if your watch has Wi-Fi by checking under Settings. If it does, there will be a Wi-Fi Settings option.
Related: Check out 20 of the best Android Wear apps for your smartwatch
Tap this and the watch will scan for local networks. Select the one you want and a prompt to enter the password will appear, along with a button to open the command on your phone. Tap this, pick up your phone, and fill in the network password. The watch will connect automatically each time it’s in range and switched on.
Set your watch as a trusted device

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This is a very helpful feature that stops the constant need to enter a PIN number or other security feature every time you use the phone, provided it’s connected to your watch with Bluetooth. Adding it as a trusted device may be offered as an option by Android anyway, but in case you dismissed it or it didn’t arrive, here’s how to set it up.
On your phone, go to Settings, Screen Lock and Passwords, then look for the Smart Unlock option. You’ll need to have set a PIN number to go any further, if one hasn’t already been added. Choose the option to add a Bluetooth device, and you’ll see a list of paired devices and the watch should be among them. Tap it and agree to use it for smart unlocking.
All the time it’s connected, security will be bypassed and only a screen swipe is needed to access the phone from wake-up. Handy when you’ve only got one hand available but need your phone. This is only available on Android.
Block notifications

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Once the novelty of receiving notifications on your watch has worn off, one or two of the more persistent apps may need to be blocked due to information overload. On Android, go to the Settings cog in the Android Wear app, choose Block App Notifications, then hit the plus icon. Here, find the app that’s going overboard and stop its interruptions right away. On iOS, it’s the same procedure in the app.
Using Android Wear on iOS

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Everyone should be happy that Android Wear watches can be linked to an iPhone, but less happy that functionality is drastically reduced. If your idea of a dream smartwatch is only notifications, then it performs valiantly.
One thing worth checking if you’re missing out on a few notifications is that the originating app isn’t blocked. Inside the Android Wear app, tap the Settings cog and look for Blocked App Notifications. Tap this to get a list of apps not sending alerts to your watch, then use the Edit command at the top of the screen to make changes.
Related: Battery saving tips for Android Wear
If you expect much else aside from alerts on your wrist, you’ll be disappointed. There are fewer watch faces available, no apps, no Wi-Fi support for the watch, and no way to fill up the internal storage space. However, this could change in the future with app updates.
Follow this guide, and you’ll be an Android Wear master in no time. There’s more to discover as you add apps, but this covers the basics of using the wearable OS. If you’ve got a favorite feature that you want the world to know about, which we haven’t mentioned, feel free to tell us about it in the comments.
We’ll be updating this guide in the future with any major feature additions introduced to Android Wear, so check back later.

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/how-to-use-android-wear/2/#ixzz3vYTbqBe2

Published on Nov 25, 2015
Our senses go way beyond the “typical five” here are some you may not even know you had.

My video on the Third Eye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFTaN…

Published on Dec 26, 2015
Filmed on June 9th, 2015

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