Gadgetory

it's time to merge high tech with high fashion I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update an avalanche of high-tech fitness tracking bracelets and smart watches are hitting the market this holiday most of the designs so far have been on the sporty side perfect for the hoodie toting techie but there are a few wearable gadgets for the female fashionista with Fashion Week kicking off in New York intelli showing off a new luxury smart bracelet called the mica it's created in partnership with the fashion company called opening ceremony it's essentially jewelry with its own phone number that means you need a data plan it receives text messages which are displayed on the curves sapphire screen on the wrist and it also will be able to show other notifications you can charge it wirelessly or with a USB cord the port is hidden inside the clasp as for the fashion half its decked out in snakeskin tiger's eye and obsidian this is a luxury product so don't be too shocked on the price intel says it will cost under a thousand dollars Intel is getting into wearables because the market has huge growth potential but why go into the luxury market here's what until vice president of new devices had to say it's because we have to expand the market we believe the consumers needs aesthetics and they need various different usage models so we think our jewelry like bracelet will be an interesting step forward we're also getting a look at a high-end robot vacuum from Dyson called the 360 I expected to cost more than that bracelet it could be around twelve hundred dollars there's a 360 degree camera up top that scans where it needs to clean next and there's an app so you can remotely program it its first coming to Japan next year aside from new gadgets this is also a week of troubling tech news Home Depot is investigating reports of a data breach that could have compromised customer credit cards Home Depot says it will provide free credit monitoring to anyone affected but that's not all popular science reports that 17 feet cell phone towers have been found across the u.s. and these phony towers have the ability to spy on phone call intercept messages and load a phone with spyware and you wouldn't even know this is happening this was discovered by the engineers that created the crypto phone 500 that's a special encrypted android phone normal cell phones automatically connect to the closest cell tower and these towers are labeled as being from a specific carrier like Verizon or AT&T but when there's a cell tower without a name the crypto phone alerts the owner of a bogus tower it's known that government agencies use dummy towers as interceptors for espionage as of this report it's unclear who is running these towers but several were found on US military bases that's your tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey