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LAS VEGAS — The Internet was strapped to wrists at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday in the condition of Android-powered "smart watches" that serve up online content along with telling experience.
Japanese consumer electronics titan Sony and venture-backed Italian startup i'm Awake to were each sporting spins on timepieces that use the Google software to connect wearers with email, music, websites or other online tranquillity.
Sony's SmartWatch was promised by the end of March while i'm Watch was released at CES.
"This is the correct period for the watch," i'm Watch chief executive and co-founder Massimiliano Bertolini told AFP at the actors's booth on the show floor.
"Everybody wants to have technology that is also fashion," he continued. "That is the Apple quietly; making devices that people fall in love with."
For some time now California-based Apple has been letting iPod Nano owners trick the small, square devices into Internet-connected watches complete with wrist straps.
Source: AFP