Study shows no need for smartwatches
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Might as well use your phone

A new study has shown that smartwatches are completely useless and you might as well be monitoring your daily activity from a phone in your pocket.

Swatch smartwatch coming, no charging necessary
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NFC, probably plastic

Swiss watchmaker Swatch is planning to launch a smartwatch within three month, and the company says its device won’t have to be charged.

Under Armour buys fitness apps for $0.56 billion
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Snapped MyFitnessPal for $475m and Endomondo $85m 

The Internet of Things, or IoT in geek parlance, is a big deal. Intel hopes to buy and craft its way into this niche, as it missed the smartphone trend. 

Cisco sees wearable takeover
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Network bra is back

For a while in the 90s there was a long running gag about a network bra, and wireless underpants on technology magazines, it sort of filled the role of Internet fridge as stupid uses of technology which would never happen.

Intel buys more into the Internet of Things
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Things are not what they used to be

Chipzilla has announced plans to buy Lantiq, a German broadband and networking gear company.