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this coverage of CES is brought to you by Toyota at a convention like the Consumer Electronics Show accessories always has a huge presence but this year it was a little different because a specific genre of accessory really took the spotlight and that's wearable tech now while we might not have been able to look at all of the wearable tech at CES 2014 we wanted to show you the highlights of the ones we did get our hands on guzik's is a company you might not have heard of but they want an Innovation Award at CES this year and they have some very cool augmented reality wearable technologies and so we thought you'd like to know and I'll take it away I'll let her do it the m100 it's a visual display for your smartphone but it doesn't end there it's actually got its own processor so you can load applications right to it we're targeting the medical industry and the industrial applications as well so you might go into a warehouse and have your employees be able to pick their know the location of where they're picking seeing what inventory is available right on their screen and they can scan the barcodes right with the camera that's built in so everything can be done hands-free do you consider this particular product to be competitive to Google glass we have you know yes yes and that in that it does a few things differently yeah and because we're we've been around since 1997 we actually know how the technology will interact with the way people will use it so for instance one of the big differences is that we have a digital see-through box okay and as you just saw yeah you know it's very bright you can see everything on air there and you can read it you can't do that on Google if the Sun hits it the wrong way or if you're a surgeon with the bright lights looking down at your patient and also the patient data disappears your host I see it so is the patient yeah so that's why we've taken a lot of that expertise we have over the years and built this device with it so we're here to introduce the Epson Moe Vario BT 200 smart glasses what you can see is that we have two displays that are centered in your field of view so effectively you get a large floating image right out there in front of you in addition we have motion sensors a front facing camera that allow you to fully sense the environment for augmented reality and best the best yet we run Android yeah so via this touch controller we run Android for oh and it does run off a touchpad interface yeah and you do get a six hour battery life nice so right now we have some very cool kind of light virtual reality games that you've probably experienced a games will be talking we've got three that are being demoed by a developer named Sean McCracken of imaginary computer is actually a very well-known glass develop my records very popular and Namco Bandai has an augmented document in action exactly has an augmented reality tabletop virtual fighter game really cool and you know we have a number of partners as a streaming media on the streaming media site in any Android app you can basically slide load onto the device now we weren't able to get our hands on the pebble steel but we did want to give it a mention here in the wearable tech of CES 2014 and that's particularly because as a pebble fan myself I'm really looking forward to seeing what else pebble will be able to come up with after creating a whole new design for this particular version of the SmartWatch it comes with a metal band and has a metal face now but the screen is still about the same and the functionality is still pretty much all the same but it does show that pebble is looking to really evolve and I'm really looking forward to what they have in store for us for the rest of 2014 so what we have is a sony smartband here inside the sony smartband is actually the sony core once you connect it you're gonna use a Bluetooth NFC OneTouch to connect the two devices together okay once the device is connected you're going to use life blog life log is this application here as you can see from the application you have three different views you have the journey view you have chart as well as the map from the journey view you could see the character as you scroll back into your journey you could see the character actually animate and move first application I'm going to show you is the fitness side cool from the fitness side you can see all the calories you burn how many steps you've actually taken and how long you ran for if you actually look into the calories you can see exactly the goals that you set and how well you do by day by week by month as well as by year it's not just about tracking your information it's also about learning from it so I know that this is my best run but why did I do so well in my run it possibly could be all this music I was listening to these are the songs that really motivate me this protects the songs that motivate you when you exercise exactly any places more consistently while you exercise well actually we just learn from these songs and then they would say you know what let's create this playlist and this time I go that's brilliant idea man exactly what about the actual smart band itself can we talk about that yeah so the smart band itself will come with two different straps a small strap as well as a large strap inside the strap is what we call the Sony core and you can control your music with it all you have to do is press this while it's in active mode tap on the top once to play tap again to stop okay double tap to fast-forward okay triple tap to rewind what about code root will tap they have quadruple tap we'll see what happens there we're looking at the LG life band touch it's a sophisticated product that's designed to actually help you in a lot of ways this is Brandi's the true expert I'm gonna let her take us through the first ones pretty much your basics is going to be your time your date and your battery life you press it again that's how many calories you've lost throughout the day that's your goal and that's how close you are to your goal the postie you get the light will slowly turn from a red to yellow to a green and there's your miles how many steps you've taken and let's say you want to go to the gym and you want to start a separate set of data so you're going to workout mode and then from there you'll also be able to see your stats and also it can sync with your phone to use and control your music as well as get call and text notifications very cool so how exactly does it read all that data that allows it to you know come to the determination so it uses an accelerometer and an altimeter the future of fitness wonderful well thank you so much for your time Randy you're welcome thank you and once again thank you to Toyota for sponsoring our CES coverage