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Ralph Pierre, a new fast fashion watch brand by Incosi Fashions is bringing transparency in the Indian fast fashion market to end customers. The brand has launched a premium collection of Men and Women watches that people can easily buy at affordable prices. The watches are inspired from trending European designs and are powered by Japanese CITIZEN Miyota Movement and SONY battery to make them one of the best products in the market segment. Ralph Pierre watches comes with 1 year manufacturing warranty.

Indian youth is demanding quality products at the best prices. With an improved living standard and exposure to worldwide fashion, there is a growing demand for fashion goods that meet international standards both in quality and design.

Ralph Pierre products are available on their website and all the popular market places. One can find the details about the cost of each and every part that goes into the making of the respective watch. By doing this, Ralph Pierre is helping people in understanding that they don’t have to pay through their nose to own a Premium Quality watch. Generally, an end customer pays a hefty amount owing to the several intermediaries and their respective markups. Ralph Pierre is cutting down the middleman and hence bringing a Premium watch to the end customer at an affordable price.

Shubham Khare – Cofounder, Ralph Pierre said

We believe in transparency and that’s why we reveal every small step to our customers. Ralph Pierre bridges the gap between the quality and affordability in the fast fashion segment. It has been launched with watches for now and soon other fashion categories are to be added. With trendy international designs and aggressive pricing, Ralph Pierre provides a viable option to users to own quality trendy fashion goods at reasonable prices.

About Ralph Pierre

Ralph Pierre is a fast fashion brand offering on-trend style watches catering to both young men & women. It is a flagship brand of Incosi Fashions Pvt. Ltd. Ralph Pierre watches offers high-performance features in trendy colors & design. It is designed to bring stylish & premium quality fashion goods at aggressive prices for today’s impulsively fashionable Indian youth.

About Incosi Fashions Pvt. Ltd

Incosi Fashions is an Indian Fast Fashion e-commerce company created by Fashion and Technology enthusiasts. It is a house of brands created with an aim to make innovative fashion and lifestyle technology products to fit all pockets. The current portfolio includes brands like Crossloop and Ralph Pierre that bring the latest technology fashion products at guilt-free prices. These two brands are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of fashion & lifestyle technology in Indian Market.

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Keeping the requirements of the smart, stylish and trendy customers in mind, Conzumex Industries Pvt. Ltd an exciting consumer tech start-up that designs, develops and sells consumer electronics is launching their luxury hybrid smartwatch, Muse on Kickstarter today. Designed for the on-the-go generation, who love to wear a watch as part of their style statement, Muse Watch comes at a very affordable price range of Rs. 6,500 ~ 10,000 [only on Kickstarter].

Image Source – Muse Wearables

The watch is built around an ‘Internet of YOU’ platform – an amalgamation of smart devices, AI, and exergaming (video games that are also a form of exercise]. The AI platform is a personal assistant that provides services in fitness, food and personal finance. The mobile game in Muse turns day-to-day activities into a deeply engaging experience for the consumer. Muse’s Planet Watch game generates in-game rewards through the activities tracked by the watch which in turn helps the user remain motivated in the daily routine.

Muse Wearables caters to the demand of the young with 21 features and promises to solve 50% of the user’s lifestyle problems. It is a first of its kind hybrid smartwatch with NFC payments and comes with an added advantage of up to 1.5 years of battery life. Some additional features include UV tracking, auto time-zone update, nutrition, fitness, sleep tracking, and SoS alerts.

Commenting on the launch, Sai Prasanth, Co-founder, Conzumex Industries Pvt. Ltd said

Keeping the smart and connected consumers in mind, we have come up with this trendy, smart and intelligent watch that caters to their needs of fitness, food, and personal finance on the go. Muse Wearables comes with a battery that lasts for over a year, reducing the hassle of charging every day; thus, giving consumers an unparalleled experience at an extremely affordable price.

The watch can be pre-booked on the Kickstarter platform starting today and will be delivered globally by the company’s vast distribution network.

About Conzumex Industries Pvt. Ltd

Co-founded in 2015 by IIT and NIT graduates – Sai Prasanth, Ajay Yathindra and Prathyusha, Conzumex is one of the few hardware start-ups in India. The company is currently building its second product Muse – an analog smartwatch that is fashionable, intelligent and more immersive than any other regular watch and fitness tracker and is backed by Keiretsu Angel Group, other lead angel groups, and individual HNIs. Eminent personalities like SS Rajamouli and Shobu Yarlagadda [Director and Producer of Baahubali film respectively] have also invested in the start-up through Keiretsu forum.

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Intex Technologies expands its wearable range with the launch of a kids-only smart watch, iRist Junior. The kids smart watch is more like a tracking device with parental guidance features to keep tap on child’s security round the clock. iRist Junior connects with parents’ smart phone through IoT platform secured server powered by mobile internet. The brilliant watch for the smart generation is available at appealing price of Rs 3,999.

iRist Junior comes with an appealing design, to make sure that toddlers and children are willing to have it on their wrists. The kids smart watch has 2G network and is Location-based Service (LBS) enabled, making the smart watch a tracking device. With this, comes the primary parental feature of iRist Junior-Geo Fencing. This feature tags the child’s movement to limited places, so whenever the child steps beyond pre-defined places, the watch notifies parents about the child’s whereabouts. Being GPS enabled, parents can keep track of child’s movement anytime and anywhere.

Apart from location, parents can also pre-install contact list to whom the child can talk to. iRist Junior comes with Auto Call and Voice Chat features. Auto Call enables parents to reach out to the child by listening to their surroundings without child answering the call.

Image Source - Intex iRist
Image Source – Intex iRist

Voice Chat feature on the other hand enables the child to talk to parents (watch to smart phone) and friends who have iRist Junior (watch to watch), thereby having a two-way calling. To ensure the child is completely focused in the class, parents can turn ON the Forbidden in Class feature, after which the little one can only see the main screen of the watch.

Keshav Bansal, Director, Intex Technologies said

Intex has always aimed at improving lives and empowering consumers through technological innovations. With iRist Junior, we have with the power of technology brought an innovative device that will address parental concerns with respect to child’s security and at the same time make them connected to their child. The kids smart watch by Intex is an example of innovative devices catering to social concerns that will resonate with everyone one across the world.

IRist Junior has a special safety feature, the SOS button on the top right side of the watch. By simply pressing the button, the kid can send an alert message to a pre-defined list of people who can be reached out for help.

The sturdy IRist Junior comes with a TFT display (128*64) and is very lightweight at 48.5gms. The smart watch is powered with a 580mAh battery, Bluetooth connectivity and a 2G single micro-SIM slot. The kids smart watch is water resistant – IP65 certified.

IRist Junior comes in four popular kids colors – Green, Yellow, Pink and Blue.

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Intex Technologies has announced the launch of its second fitness smart band – fitRist Pulzz. The feature-packed smart band is exclusively available on Flipkart at an appealing price of INR 1,799

fitRist Pulzz, with its sleek looks and design, sports an OLED display. The fitness band comes loaded with new health & fitness features like hydration reminder alarm, a personal burn meter, a heart monitor and also allows users to plan their fitness schedule. Other features include heart rate count, steps count, distance measurement, calorie burn and monitoring of quality of sleep. All this is tracked with precision to help the consumer stay healthy.

Key Features of fitRist Pulzz

  • Size – 0.66 inches
  • Resolution – 64 * 48
  • Battery Capacity – 80 mAh
  • Bluetooth – BLE 4.0
  • Battery Life – Upto 7 Days
  • Weight – 28.6 Grams
  • Sensors – Tri-Axis, Heart Rate
  • Alerts – Incoming Calls, WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger notifications
  • Water Resistance – IPX 66, 32 KB RAM, 256 KB ROM

The fitness band is a blue tooth-enabled band & once synced with the smart phone, it displays all kinds of notifications including monitoring calls, SMS updates, Facebook messenger as well as Whatsapp notifications. The band helps the user control music track on the smart phone, thereby customizing the music experience. Through the remote shutter, users can control the phone to turn on the camera and take pictures. The band also helps in tracking the smart phone device.

Keshav Bansal, Director, Intex Technologies said

With a growing awareness of fitness as a part of youth’s lifestyle, we have expanded our wearable smart band offering with the new fitRist Pulzz for the fitness conscious and tech savvy youth. We are happy to partner with Flipkart for bringing the fitness device exclusively to consumers and are confident that the platform will ensure quality reach.

Speaking on this collaboration Adarsh K Menon, VP Electronics & Auto, Flipkart said

Smart Wearables is a key category on Flipkart and with this association, we are building on an innovative portfolio of products meant for the fitness conscious and tech savvy customers. We are excited about this exclusive association with Intex and we will help Intex reach out to the right target group and highlight this product to the fitness conscious & tech savvy audience.

fitRist Pulzz is water-resistant and splash proof to prevent from rains and accidental spills. The feature-rich smart band comes in four attractive color options – Black, Blue, Green and Violet; each with a single point touch display. Users can additionally avail a free one strap inside box on purchase of fitRist Pulzz.

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In the new Ericsson ConsumerLab Report – Wearable Technology and The Internet of things, six in ten smartphone users state that wearables have uses beyond health and wellness. Devices related to personal safety and security, such as panic buttons and personal locators, attract most interest.

[Image Source - Wearables]
[Image Source – Wearables]
The report highlights key trends in wearable technology, such as:

  • One in three smartphone users believe they will use at least five connected wearables beyond 2020.
  • Early signs of detachment from smartphones are visible today with 40 percent of today’s smartwatch users already interacting less with their smartphones.
  • 25 percent of smartwatch owners use their smartwatch to remotely control other digital devices at home, and 30 percent use voice search on their smartwatches.
  • 38% of smartphone users say wearables will be used to perform most smartphone functions within just five years.

Top five most-wanted wearables across five markets surveyed [% interested & willing to buy]

  1. Panic/SOS button – 32%
  2. Smartwatch – 28%
  3. Wearable Location Tracker – 27%
  4. Identity Authenticator – 25%
  5. Wearable Water Purifier – 24%
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The report captures the opinions of 5,000 smartphone users [of which 2,500 are wearable users] in Brazil, China, South Korea, UK and US, representing the views of 280 million smartphone users globally. In addition to the top five most-wanted wearables, it shows consumers predict a booming wearables market beyond 2020, as well as that wearables might replace smartphones and will help consumers interact with physical things and objects in the internet of things [IoT] era:

A booming wearables market beyond 2020

Ownership of wearables among smartphone users in the surveyed markets has doubled in the past year. However, consumers predict it will take at least another year for the current generation of wearables to go mainstream. A more diverse set of wearables, such as personal safety devices and smart garments, will go mainstream beyond 2020 – but when they do, a booming market can be expected. One in three smartphone users believe they will use at least five connected wearables beyond 2020.

Wearables to turn smartphones into just screens

The integration of smartphones into every aspect of daily life makes it hard to envisage a future without them. But with two in five [43%] smartphone users expecting wearables might replace smartphones, this could indeed happen – although it may take some time. As wearables get smarter and more independent in terms of factors such as connectivity, the smartphone screen may become less significant. Thirty-eight percent of smartphone users say wearables will be used to perform most smartphone functions within just five years.

Jasmeet Singh Sethi, Consumer Insight Expert, Ericsson ConsumerLab, says – Early signs of detachment from smartphones are visible today with 40 percent of today’s smartwatch users already interacting less with their smartphones.

Wearables bringing people into IoT

Wearable technology will also accelerate the convergence of the digital and human worlds, by bringing people into the [IoT]. While consumers are confident that wearable technology will help them interact with objects in their surroundings, they also say that this technology may not necessarily be devices. 60 percent believe that ingestible pills and chips under the skin will be commonly used in the next five years – not only to track vital health data, but also to unlock doors, authenticate transactions and identity, and to control objects. Already today, 25 percent of smartwatch owners use their smartwatch to remotely control other digital devices at home, and 30 percent use voice search on their smartwatches.

Jasmeet Singh Sethi, Consumer Insight Expert, Ericsson ConsumerLab, says Although consumers show greatest interest in devices related to safety, we also see an openness to wearable technology further away from today’s generation. In five years’ time, walking around with an ingestible sensor, which tracks your body temperature and adjusts the thermostat setting automatically once you arrive home, may be a reality.

The complete Ericsson ConsumerLab Report – Wearable Technology and The Internet of things report can be downloaded from here

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The NEW YEAR is a great time to make resolution for fitness/lifestyle goals & the latest fitness cum daily routine monitor with attractive new features is Swipe F-Band at an astounding price of Rs. 1,499 only. The device will be available exclusively on Snapdeal from 7th Jan 2016 onwards. First 100 customers can avail this fitness band at a special price for Rs. 1,299.

F-Band, Swipe’s first offering in the Fitness segment, is lightweight, comfortable and stylish. The comfortably textured band is suitable for daily use and can be worn all day and all night long.

 

The band offers some of the most innovative features:

  • Steps Tracker : The feature will help users accurately track all-day statistics like steps taken & calories burned. One can Work towards a healthier lifestyle & accomplish the exercise targets set for himself/herself.
  • Sleep Monitor : F-Band monitors how long and how well an individual sleeps. Silent wake alarm can be activated too under this feature.
  • Calling Reminder : Users can track all their important calls through an instant alert.
  • Mobile App : One can sync with the F-Band app in real-time via Bluetooth to view fitness and sleep records. This can allow users to save up to a 1 year worth of data and get healthy.
  • Watch Function : Designed with advanced smart watch features, F-Band lets an individual run the day as per the individual’s way.
  • Battery : Built with the best-in-class battery life, F-Band transitions seamlessly from workouts to tracking real-time statistics. F-Band has a Rechargeable 55 mAh Battery which can last upto 7 days. The charge time is approximately 30 minutes via USB charging cable.

First 100 customers can avail F-Band at a special price for Rs. 1,299. Watch this space on Snapdeal for updates.

About Swipe Technologies

Swipe is an innovation-centric company with a vision to empower India to be one of the top nations in the world in terms of availability of new Tablet technologies and innovative solutions. Swipe was started in India to bring exciting devices to market and today we are a leading consumer brand with key innovations across product, pricing and support. In November 2012, Swipe Telecom was awarded the “Most Innovation driven Company in India by World Brand Congress.” In December 2012, Swipe Telecom was also recognized in ‘CNBC Young Turks’ for its breakthrough strategies and innovation. For more details visit Swipe Telecom

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Fashion and technology need to go hand in hand to be able to attract buyers in this market which is why the connection between the two  is getting stronger as manufacturers recognize that people want to not only wear something that works well, but looks good too.

According to a study by Endeavour Partners, one of world’s leading strategy firm in the US, more than half of the people who bought a health and fitness wearable had stopped wearing it, and a third of those had put it aside within the first six months of receiving it, unless, it appealed to their sense of fashion and beauty. As a result, fashion is an important consideration when designing a wearable but again, the design alone will fail to keep its buyers interested in the gadget for too long [Report Link here]

“What is required is the fusion of fashion into technology to impart widespread adoption of wearable technologies, especially if you are looking at making what is intended to be worn 24/7 or for longer periods of time” explains Krispian Lawrence, founder and CEO of Ducere Technology who launched LeChal-world’s first haptic based interactive footwear.

Fashion aspect of LeChal

The shoes by the company were created keeping this aspect in mind. The three elements of fashion, technology and comfort are equally important when designing a wearable tech gadget and LeChal is a reflection of that. Its features and applications are unique as is its design and comfort.

The developers of the product wanted their product to look good enough to be picked up from a shop window even before its usefulness came to the fore. USP of the product, its functionality and of course being a wearable product, its comfort for the wearable becomes important.

All gadgets in the wearable space usually follow this mantra to make their product sellable in the market. Since what we wear is personal, it is a reflection of who we are. Thus, the two have a clear interplay and wearable technology will sell only if they are also desirable.

Lechal [lay-chull, “Take me along” in Hindi] footwear is a disruptive innovation designed to smoothly integrate into the everyday.

LeChal_Shoe

Features of LeChal

Available as an insole or a shoe, Lechal footwear uses Bluetooth technology to connect to the user’s smartphone via the Lechal App. Using simple foot gestures or voice commands, the wearer can use it as a navigational tool or track their activity from a fitness perspective. The footwear communicates with the user via gentle vibratory responses or Haptic feedback.

In addition to taking you places, you can also tag favourite locations, share new routes, create group journeys – all with your footwear! It also tracks the number of steps taken, calories burnt & distance travelled, logs your fitness activity & charts your activity over time.

Intended user-base of LeChal

Lechal is for everyone – early adopters of wearables, people who like to travel and explore, fitness freaks, cyclists, runners, people who are tech-savvy and those who are not, back-seat drivers, design aficionados, the fashion-conscious, and the use cases are as varied as the users.

LECHAL_footwear

Launched in 2014, Lechal has received an overwhelmingly positive response, with over 50,000 pre-orders received to date from across the world. With distributors from over 65 countries showing interest in this one-of-a-kind product, Lechal footwear will also soon be available at retailers and e-tailers around the world.

Lechal footwear was initially conceived as a solution to help the visually-impaired navigate their worlds better. This genesis is what led to the Lechal Initiative, where the proceeds from the sale of each pair of Lechal footwear go towards subsidising a pair for someone who is visually-challenged.

Ducere Technologies has partnered with the world-renowned L.V. Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad to make this a reality.

A pair of Lechal insoles will cost between 100$ & 150$ and the shoes will be slightly more expensive. You can pre-order a pair of Lechal from here

For more information on Ducere Technologies and LeChal, please visit their website here & here. You can also find them on Facebook & Twitter

Image Courtesy – LeChal

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TE Connectivity Ltd, a world leader in connectivity, announced the official opening of its TE Wearables Lab in Menlo Park, California. Exclusively focused on wearable technologies across consumer, medical, industrial and defense businesses, the lab serves as a collaboration center for TE’s team of engineers, scientists and its customers throughout the design process.

According to IDC, shipments of wearable devices will exceed 19 million units in 2014, more than tripling last year’s sales. From there, the global market is expected to swell to 111.9 million units in 2018. This growth is a key indicator of the market potential and importance for continued industry innovation.

One of the first products to come out of the TE’s Wearables Lab is a first-of-its-kind, wireless power development kit for wearable devices. For the first time, TE will introduce a solution that addresses the need for miniaturization as well as low power requirements for wearables. Set for broader distribution in early 2015, the kit will include a small 2.5W charger with integrated magnet for attachment to a wearable device, as well as a complete RX coil and electronics for integration.

TE engineers miniaturized the electronic system & the coil to make it possible for wearable designers to quickly prototype their products and develop a customized solution to meet their design requirements.

TE’s Wearables Lab team consists of professionals with extensive skill sets and experiences. These individuals range from electrical and mechanical engineers to materials science experts, pioneering the use of conductive materials including embedding electronic systems in textiles.

The TE’s Wearables Lab is currently being used by a number of start-up and growth stage companies ranging from design to manufacturing and integration companies. TE’s ability to collaborate across the wearables ecosystem is one of its strengths, coupled with breadth of products and technologies. One key customer, Sensoplex, is an expert systems company that designs and supplies high performance sports and wellness wearable products to OEM companies.

In addition to working with customers on custom and existing products, the TE Wearables Lab team is also exploring innovations around wireless power and conductivity across textiles, plastics and other materials. With TE’s unmatched product portfolio, the company expects to be enabling connectivity across tens of millions of wearable devices globally in the next year.

Speaking on the collaboration, Brady Forrest, Vice President, Highway1 [Accelerator focused on helping early seed stage hardware start-ups take ideas from prototype to scalable product] said:

Innovation is part of our DNA. When we met TE and heard their vision for connectivity, things clicked. Together we have a real opportunity to enable a hardware revolution and help the next generation of innovators get off the ground.

For further details on the TE Wearables Lab, please visit TE Wearables Lab