Samsung reveals prototype … – Ultimoinstante

Posted on 05/29/2014 at 15:35 in category Technology by Bianca Hayashi

articleimage”> class=”articleinset class=”caption c15″> The company showed Simband that can measure statistics such as blood pressure and cardiac monitoring.

Samsung Electronics unveiled on Wednesday (28) at an event in San Francisco in the United States, a prototype bracelet monitors connected to a health service in the clouds, which allow the user to share their statistics with applications developers fitness.

The company showed Simband that can measure statistics such as blood pressure and cardiac monitoring. The platform is designed to promote the welfare of consumers and create a network of information for health researchers, the company said.

“This is the beginning of our journey, the beginning of our new platform” said Young Sohn, president and chief strategy solutions division of Samsung devices. “What we need is a community of developers and users willing to work with us,” he said.

Samsung, dominant in mature smartphone market, is trying to expand its technology devices for consumer use and is investing in areas such as health. Global sales of smartwatches, glasses and medical products stood at $ 10 billion last year and is forecast to triple by 2018.

The new hardware from the South Korean company must be open to other companies develop their own products, the same way that Intel and Microsoft provide their chips and software to companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell.

Samsung said it will create a fund of $ 50 million to support the development of . partner for the other device

With international agencies

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