Gadgetory

hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's car i cboy joined by senior rider Seth Rosenblatt Seth Wednesday Google's I owe the big developer conference kicks off the big news expected out of this year's is all about your wrist it's where our watches watches what are we expecting we know for a fact that Samsung LG and Motorola will all be coming out with watches running Google's new android wear Android wear is their version of Android for wearables so three different manufacturers coming out with watches differences similarities we don't know yet we don't know obviously there will be a form factor difference we've seen the motorola watch they did a sort of a soft an ounce of it in March it's circular LG also made their announcement in March we don't know what Samsung's is going to look like we we heard that they're coming with two watches we don't know if both are going to be using Android wear or just one but at least one will have where I mean this has been a gadget long talked about by different companies manufacturers so the fact that Google is putting the name behind it being launched this could be a this is going to be a big deal right now the wearables market is only one point four billion dollars that's projected for 2014 its projected to be 19 billion dollars by 2018 so a tenfold increase in four years this is just the beginning this is just the beginning and this is just the beginning where else is Google hoping to you know get their products on this this year at this announcement everywhere they're looking at tvs we hear that there's going to be a google TV rebrand as android TV we don't know necessarily what's going to be coming out with it but we do know that it's going to be very big for google and we know that they've developed a partnership with car makers so that your car's entertainment system will be running Android in that we also expect news about that tomorrow and what about google glass any updates here there's there's been some updates in the past week there I suppose there could be something tomorrow but we're not really expecting anything there they most recently a glass for work so more niche use cases of glass which I think Google is hoping we'll get people to understand how to use glass a little bit better instead of just being a product that you have on your face all the time you can use it when you're in a museum or when you're on a construction site in very specific use cases and with Google's acquisition of nest and the smart thermometer yeah home thermostat I'm sorry yes what are the announcements expected around the smart home we don't know necessarily what's going to be coming we do know that Tony Fadell the CEO of nest is expected to make an appearance today we had big news from nest with the announcement of their API for developers and that means that other app makers can tie into nest users can opt into sharing their data and google it seems like Google really wants a nest to be the hub of your connected home so it sounds like there's going to be a lot of hardware announcements it's not the show but what would you say the overall theme is overall feel that sure sure well as you can tell by the sign behind us Google is really going for an emphasis on design last year that sign was filled with color and life this year it's very stark and minimalist and we know that they're going to be emphasizing designed to their developers they're also emphasizing distribution they want developers to begin thinking more like entrepreneurs and not just programmers when you think of design you obviously think of another big you know Silicon Valley giant which one could you be talking about perhaps like a little nod or a little you know call to order to compete with that company of course yeah there's no question that that's happening especially considering that Fidel used to be an Apple employee Google's really I think they're a little anxious you know this is a bargaining market with screens everywhere and there's an opportunity for Google to really take control of it before things get out of hand the way that things in with smartphones so we expect to see their first salvo in this battle tomorrow well lots of 42 thank you so much senior writer seth rosenblatt I'm Kara Tsuboi you can tune in to our live show starting at eight o'clock pacific time the live blogs that as part of that will happen at nine a.m. when the keynote kicks off thank you so much thanks for watching the inside scoop