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Top Smart Home Gadgets & Features

myinvolvement — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:51:26 +0000

These days, there’s a smart version of pretty much every home device you can think of. In general, these products connect to the internet, so you can control them from your phone via a companion app. Most also work with various forms of voice control.

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Game Changing Virtual Reality Console Hits the Market

myinvolvement — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:03:17 +0000

VR has been around for many years but, disappointingly, has failed to live up to its own expectations. With new groundbreaking, non-nausea-inducing devices and amazing immersive software starting to be developed, VR’s moment for consumer products may finally have arrived. VR will likely impact every major industry including gaming, education, healthcare, fitness, eCommerce, social, mobile, entertainment, technology and travel to name a few.

In addition, we feel that VR will have a significant impact on the market research and consumer insights space—think about what it would be like to conduct a focus group in a virtual environment without ever leaving the office, conducting concept test, ad-tests or study shopping behavior all within a virtual space, streaming your pilot tv show, movie or ad all within a virtual cinema—the possibilities are endless!

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New Study Suggests Link Between Social Media Use and Mental Health

myinvolvement — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 08:11:43 +0000

Pick a Watch That Works With Your Phone

Naturally, the first thing you’ll want to consider when buying a smartwatch is compatibility.

All Apple Watch models run watchOS, Apple’s smartwatch operating system, and connect strictly to iOS-powered devices, meaning they’re iPhone-only. The Series 7, Apple’s latest flagship model, requires an iPhone 6s or later, running iOS 15 or later.

Samsung’s latest smartwatches, the Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic, run the new Wear OS platform, and only work with Android. They require a smartphone running Android 6.0 or later with 1.5GB of RAM, a departure from 2020’s Watch3, which also worked with iPhones.

All the other models on this list work with both Android and iOS smartphones

What Should You Pay for a Smartwatch?
Smartwatches might be costly, but that doesn’t mean you have to spend a lot of cash to obtain a nice one. Yes, the $1,229 Apple Watch Hermès will get a lot of attention, but you could get five Fitbits for that amount.

If you’re buying a smartwatch for the first time, you might want to consider opting with a less expensive option in case you don’t use it very often. The $20 Wyze Watch and the $159 OnePlus Watch are two inexpensive choices, but before you invest your money on either, read our evaluations to understand their limits.

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