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the wrist is getting smarter I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update more rumors are flying in about Apple working on a smart wristwatch possibly called an eye watch bloomberg reports that there's a hundred person team at Apple dedicated to this project so that's true this has gone beyond tinkering with an idea phase this news comes after the New York Times said Apple is working on a wrist device that uses curved glass with the increase of wearable devices like the Nike FuelBand and the buzz around smartwatches like the Pebble watch it wouldn't surprise me to see Apple jump into this territory the wrist is the one place on your body where we're all comfortable about wearing a screen and it was interesting how Apple stopped making the square Nano which people were using as a SmartWatch this could be the relaunch of that concept and speaking of wearable tech the fitness brand Under Armour is taking on Nike and just unveils its own fitness monitoring system called the armor 39 it's got a sensor on a strap that you wear around the chest which is something that was already being done by wahoo fitness the chest piece stores Fitness data and sends it to the cloud via bluetooth you can see how you did by going on a website but if you want to check it while you're working out you'll need an iPhone app or the special $200 watch accessory which cost more than $150 chest strap sensor if you're familiar with a Nike FuelBand system it measures activity with a fuel score but the armor 39 uses a willpower score measuring the intensity of your workout it'll be coming out on March 20th in other news we're watching Apple just drop the price of its MacBook Pro laptops with Retina display and it boosted the processor speeds the entry-level 13-inch pro model is $200 cheaper and Apple also cut the price at the high-end MacBook Air by a hundred bucks several music apps are in the news Amazon's Cloud Player will now be available in cars that have Ford's Sync app link drivers have yet another choice to listening to music while on the go and Amazon's app will play any music purchased or saved on the service headphone maker Beats Audio is coming out with its own online music subscription service in this it's simply called beats and it will be taking on services like Spotify the co-founder of Beats said that this would be a network that helps you pure eight info about your music tastes and it can create expert made playlists and Slacker Radio has completely rebranded itself with a new logo apps and website in order to stand out from the competition and to celebrate the rebranding you can access slacker premium features for free on February 14th and 15th that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet.com slash the Mar Studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey