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CNET News - Google on your wrist, TV, and dashboard

2014-06-25
those are just the first three watches there are many more on the way there's a new tech arms race with Google now vying for space on your wrist it's finally possible to make a powerful computer small enough to wear comfortably on your body all day long google unveiled the new smart watches at their annual developers conference in San Francisco just one more tap to pay and the pizzas on its way the watch is made by mobile companies LG motorola and samsung run Google's Android wear operating system find myself missing phone calls a lot because my my phone is in my pocket so with Android wear watch your watch will vibrate you can glance down and you can either see the message just like that or if it's a phone call you can see who's calling then you know if you need to get your phone out to answer or you can swipe to dismiss the call or send a quick SMS reply right on your wrist while Android wear was designed for both square and round watch faces it's this round of moto 360 that's getting the most buzzed here at Google i/o the move puts pressure on apple to launch the much rumored iWatch one research firm predicted that while this year wearables will be around 1.4 billion dollars by 2018 only four years away they're looking at a 19 billion dollar market that ties together with Google's desire to see Google products and services on as many screens as possible Google is challenging Apple and other arenas introducing Android auto a competitor to apples car play these two giants are still going at it and it's moving on from simply Android versus iOS to your TV's and your watches and car play android auto puts android into a car's entertainment screen and ii can now put his phone down and use the familiar car controls it looks and feels like it's part of the car but all of the apps we see here are running on andy's phone google is also making a push into your home updating its TV offering now called android TV that integrates with your smartphone for example i can just say oscar-nominated movies from 2002 google will interpret that query hood of course get me all my oscar-nominated movie there was no mention of nest the smart thermostat maker that google recently acquired or Google glass which made its debut at this conference two years ago in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News
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