Marketplace Tech for Monday, July 8, 2013
Apple has filed patents on them, Sony just released one, and now an independent, crowdfunded piece of tech called the Pebble is available at a big box store. There has been a lot of talk about smartwatches as tech's next big object of desire. We will soon see whether consumers actually want to read text messages and Facebook posts on their wrists. And it's the last day to bid for one of the world's only Apple 1 computers.
Apple has filed patents on them, Sony just released one, and now an independent, crowdfunded piece of tech called the Pebble is available at a big box store. There has been a lot of talk about smartwatches as tech’s next big object of desire. We will soon see whether consumers actually want to read text messages and Facebook posts on their wrists. And it’s the last day to bid for one of the world’s only Apple 1 computers.
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