Gadgetory

get ready for an avalanche of Android news I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update this will be a big week for Google News the google i/o developers conference kicks off wednesday morning in San Francisco and Google is expected to show off new software and some new gadgets smartwatches will be a big focus of the presentation Cena has learned that Samsung is going to show off its first android wear SmartWatch Android wear is the operating system that google made especially for small wearable screens motorola and LG are both coming out with smart watches that use Android wear and both of those models could also be shown off at the conference and speaking of wearable tech you can bet we'll hear more about google glass and when a more affordable version will be available for consumers the headgear accessory is now available to buy outside of the US for the first time but it's still in its early Explorer phase so the price remains high it's 1,000 pounds in the UK and 1800 australian dollars if you want to buy the prototype in the u.s. it'll cost you fifteen hundred dollars plus tax and if you want to give your glass more style designer frames are now available from Diane von Furstenberg there are five frames to choose from with eight shades frames cost 225 dollars with sunglass shades an extra one hundred and twenty dollars but in every design there's no hiding the fact that you still have a camera and screen attached to the side of your face so if you're going to be a geek at least you can be a chic geek along with wearable gadgets expect health to be another hot topic it should come as no surprise everyone's talking about health tracking these days forbes reports that Google will launch some sort of comprehensive health data app called google fit it will collect data from all sorts of popular fitness tracking devices and apps and this would compete against apple's health kit this is a new app that will be in iOS 8 later this year and it's also going to be a hub that pulls in your health data from different devices and there's another aspect of Google that's growing fast but we may not hear much about it on Wednesday google now owns Dropcam it's the do-it-yourself home security web-connected camera the purchase was done by nest that's a company Google bought earlier this year nest makes the smart home thermostat and protect smoke detector nest labs spend five hundred and fifty five million dollars to bring Dropcam into the family and that gives google a new edge in the smart home that's your tech news update you can always find more at cnet com and follow along on Twitter to stay updated from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey