Sentences with phrase «nearby smartphone»

It still needs a nearby smartphone or PC to load music.

Scientists recently created magnetic garments that they say can store data, automatically unlock doors or control a nearby smartphone with gestures.

They also created magnetic gloves that could control a nearby smartphone with gestures.

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have pioneered a technique where everyday objects, such as advertising posters or articles of clothing, can be embedded with transmitters that piggyback ambient FM signals to send data to nearby smartphones and radios using almost no power.

The smart t - shirt was found to be able to transmit data at rates up to 3.2 kilobits per second to a nearby smartphone.

One of the handiest features you'll find on newer digital cameras is built - in Wi - Fi connectivity that allows you to transfer files to a computer on your local network or to a nearby smartphone via an ad - hoc Wi - Fi network.

As for GPS, the Versa will require a nearby smartphone to map runs.

The new Charge trackers trade the existing Fitbit Flex's LED dot readout for actual OLED displays, showing the time of day, steps taken, and Caller ID when paired to a nearby smartphone.

Restaurants could add NFC chips to menus to display the daily specials on a nearby smartphone, as one example, but there are many other uses.

The Smart Lock uses Bluetooth LE (low energy) to connect with a nearby smartphone, with «virtual keys» that can be kept to the homeowner, or shared out with others.

Touching the capacitive Bluetooth button causes the XTD to broadcast its signal to nearby smartphones and the like.

As the solo tag implies, the Samsung Gear Solo will be a standalone smartwatch that doesn't need to be tethered to a nearby smartphone for functionality.

Whether that means a standalone product or one that, as we've seen with most smartwatches to - date, a device intended to be tethered to a nearby smartphone remains to be seen.

Google intends Android Wear devices both to be capable of acting as a companion device to a nearby smartphone or tablet, and to eventually run standalone apps themselves.

In other words, Android Wear 2.0 will definitely launch in early February, bringing a built - in Play Store, the ability for apps to connect to the internet through Wi - Fi (sans a nearby smartphone), new app launcher, support for complications on watch faces, and more.

Latest to the app - controlled line - up, the distinctive little lamp offers the same millions of color options as Hue has from the start; unlike most Hue bulbs, however, Hue Go can not only cut the cord but doesn't demand a nearby smartphone.

has invented a five - watt, weather and waterproof smart antenna that emits signals to nearby smartphones, alerting them of the properties that are for sale nearby.