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hey what is up guys i'm kim Bhd here and they said this year 2014 would be the year of the wearable 2014 is said to be the year of wearable tech electronics that are physically attached to your body so was it at the beginning of 2014 about 10 months ago but look at the five best wearables that you can buy and these are all first generation products so they're the beginning of a new product category and they could all sort of tell you if you have a new notification they could tell you if something new was happening but if you actually wanted to do anything about it or if you wanted to take action or if you want to reply to something like a new message then you still have to take your phone out your pocket anyway so that's I guess the main difference between what we had then and what we have now at Google i/o this summer we saw the introduction of Android wear so it's Google's version of their Android operating system for wearable tech or smartwatches specifically it's not sexy or anything but it's very smart and it's actually gotten a couple of software updates since it first rolled out and it has a bunch of new features now and it's a lot better looking and wearable tech has made a lot of steps forward since that introduction so now here we are at the end of 2014 with a very different very new list these are your new top 5 best wearables that you can buy right now number 5 is the Samsung gear s so this is a Tizen SmartWatch and we've talked a lot about Tizen in the past and what it means to Android but essentially the gear s is this huge curved AMOLED display on a SmartWatch it's not small at all it's not subtle at all it's this really big thing but it's one of the more innovative designs and one of the more interesting looking things we've seen this year in the SmartWatch game and actually turns out to be a really good product mostly because it's one of the few that actually doesn't require being tethered to or attached to a smartphone to work it has its own independent functions it has its own independent actions that can do it is a freaking web browser built-in so if you want to load up a web page it'll start chugging that Snapdragon 400 and half a gig of ram and it'll load up a web page so if you need to do some things on the go ad this is actually a pretty solid option and like I said it's not small it's not subtle but it's pretty interesting looking Samsung by the way has loaded the market with a bunch of Smart Watch options and they're basically saturating the market in typical Samsung fashion one of the other noteworthy ones is the Samsung gear live which is their Android wear version of a SmartWatch pretty traditional looking SmartWatch as far as they are concerned and they have a gear 2 as well which is the sort of a follow-up to their Tizen based Galaxy gear number four is the pebble and this is actually one of the returners from the video that happened at the beginning is here 10 months ago which means it's still really good at what it does because it's very focused on just delivering your notifications and it's still really good at that now it's also not going to let you take action really on these notifications the way the Android wear smartwatches do so if you get a new message you can mark it as read or ignore it but that's about it you still have to take your phone out your pocket to reply but it still has a display that allows it to have a 7 day battery life it's not the most premium feeling in the world but they also have a version called the pebble steel that's a bit more expensive but I would recommend it because it's much more premium feeling has the metal band has a clasp that feels much more like a normal timepiece than the rubber and plastic of the original pebble so the pebble in the pebble steel are still very easy to recommend for the simple delivery of notifications number three is the asus zenui the square display on your wrist it does look a little bit unconventional it doesn't look quite as much like a normal watch but I think the one that strikes the balance best is the Zen watch it's probably easily the best-looking SmartWatch that has a full square resolution display it has that brushed aluminum on the sides it has that subtle curve around the edges it has the leather band it has that clasp like a normal timepiece so it's very nice of striking the balance between something that looks like a timepiece but also it gives you that sort of a high-tech look in the full square display III wouldn't necessarily pick it over the number one and number two but I do want to put it high on this list because it's worth recommending it's a great performer it has a solid battery life it's got nice specs it's pretty solid and I wouldn't have any trouble recommending it to someone who's looking to get into a SmartWatch right now number two is the LG G watch R and this is an Android wear SmartWatch similar to ones we've talked about before but it looks a lot more like a normal timepiece because it has a round display and actually has the notches around the display and the numbers as well it has a leather ish band that's not really that premium feeling and there is no metal version but it still looks a lot closer to a normal watch than the sort of a mini computer that the square ones look like on your wrist there also is a square version of this it's called the LG G watch no R and it was introduced at Google i/o and that was one of the first that LG introduced but the G watch are for round is much better looking I think and is easily something I could recommend but the number one I think is the one that you guys probably all saw coming number one is the Moto 360 a moto 360 is a round SmartWatch and it's also running Android wear and it has a metal version too so if you prefer that premium look and feel closer to a normal watch as a clasp so it has everything like that you have that option I think it's one of the best-looking smartwatches actually might be the best-looking SmartWatch period with the minimal distractions around the display and the almost zero bezel has that chamfer edge around the display it has that tiny little bar at the bottom that people like to complain about at first but you'll find that it just sort of melts away and disappears from your vision when you're checking stuff after about a day or two so it's a beautiful option for a SmartWatch this is the one on the list that I did do a full review on so if you're looking to get into smartwatches in general or you just want to know more about what the best of a SmartWatch right now can offer check out that link right below the like button it'll have the Moto 360 review and also link my android wear review to go over all the functions of what a SmartWatch can do so honestly if you're trying to buy a SmartWatch especially since it's the holiday season now it's basically a toss-up between like the top three or four depending on what sort of a design you like and what functionality you want the clasp design the material design also there's a Sony option the Sony SmartWatch 3 and there's those also those Samsung options that I talked about as they start to flood the market so really there are a lot more options than you had at the beginning of the year also the Apple watch not the eye watch the Apple watch was announced this year but it doesn't sell until next year and there are still a whole bunch of questions that we have about it I'll leave the video that I did about that also below it's a question mark for me in terms of functionality and what it's actually going to be able to do and what the interface will look like and all these other things but best watch that video is totally separate and it's an interesting concept but we all know that once Apple tends to get into things that's what really gets the competition going and that makes better products for us there's also a new version of Google glass expected with internals from Intel instead of Ti to be released next year and we keep hearing about these murmurings of bringing Google glass back it was actually on the top-five list at the beginning of this year for best wearables but it dropped off and it's been pretty quiet lately but we also always had in the back of our mind that thought of a consumer version of Google glass for a lower price tag that we just straight-up never saw I mean Google glass is still 1,500 bucks right now so I wouldn't be surprised if that was wrecker resurrected we brought back from the dead in 2015 so we'll see how this list of all is during the course of 2015 and what new stuff comes out keep an eye out for CES stuff keep an eye out for new Google glass stuff and also let me know in the comments section below what you're looking forward to in the whole wearable game maybe you're not interested in smartwatches at all maybe you want stuff to be more on your face or maybe you want a moto 360 without the black bar whatever it is let me know what you're thinking in the comments section thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace