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Title: Can your wearable's sucky battery life be saved? Maybe by streaming to a smartphone Post by: HCK on July 13, 2015, 09:00:26 am Can your wearable's sucky battery life be saved? Maybe by streaming to a smartphone
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Is there any wearable user who’s not completely happy with his or her battery life? Yes? Aaah! Stop shouting! You’ll be happy to hear that Microsoft Research believes they’ve found a possible solution.</p><p>According to a paper (http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive/2015/07/09/microsoft-researchers-have-developed-a-way-to-make-wearables-last-longer.aspx) that Microsoft Research employees Ranveer Chandra and Anirudh Badam will present at the USENIX Technical Conference this week, eliminating the need to read and write data to a wearable’s onboard flash memory can significantly improve battery life in a wearable like a smartwatch. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2946039/can-your-wearables-sucky-battery-life-be-saved-maybe-by-streaming-to-a-smartphone.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Can your wearable's sucky battery life be saved? Maybe by streaming to a smartphone (http://www.macworld.com/article/2946039/can-your-wearables-sucky-battery-life-be-saved-maybe-by-streaming-to-a-smartphone.html#tk.rss_all) |