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"  LAS VEGAS\u2014Despite being part of a fast- expanding category, wearable devices are still difficult to get right. Smartwatches aren&amp;#039;t ready for primetime yet, and fitness bands have such a targeted function that beyond the health-conscious audience, the gadgets don&amp;#039;t exactly enjoy mass appeal. But now, Razer is aiming to mitigate these problems. At this year&amp;#039;s Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, the popular gaming peripheral maker has launched the Nabu, a &amp;quot;smart band&amp;quot; that the company claims belongs to an entirely new class of products. This hybrid smartwatch-fitness tracker is designed to provide the essential features of both devices to appeal to the widest swath of potential users possible: smartphone notifications, as well as quantified-self monitoring. The Razer Nabu comes in two sizes. There are also two screens on the band: A public OLED screen on the top which, at 32x32 pixels, is big enough to display icons that alert you of a call, text, email, etc. that you&amp;#039;ve just received; and a private 128x32 pixel OLED screen hidden on the bottom side of your wrist, for more detailed information on those updates. Here&amp;#039;s how it works: When a call comes in, the pertinent icon appears on the tiny public screen. If you&amp;#039;re in the middle of an important business meeting or conversation, you can shake your wrist to dismiss the notification. Or, to find out more about who is calling, turn your wrist around to check the details on the private screen.      On the data tracking front, the Nabu can leverage the accelerometer and altimeter sensors tucked inside it to cache a user&amp;#039;s location information, bio data feedback (which includes information like the number of steps a person has walked, distance traveled, stairs climbed, etc.), and sleep data. It even has band-to-band communication capabilities to tell who the wearer is meeting and spending time with. The Nabu can also talk to a base station specially placed in certain locations, like stores. The third and final notable feature of the Nabu is a completely open development platform for third-party apps. This allows developers to mine the data collected by the smart band, to use for either an existing application\u2014such as RunKeeper, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and more (as long as the developers have chosen to integrate it in an update)\u2014or for developing new apps for the band from the ground up. This, in addition to the gadget&amp;#039;s capacity to sense gestures, introduces the possibility of some interesting use cases: for instance, exchanging contact information via a handshake if both individuals are wearing the Nabu; attaching a user&amp;#039;s identity to the band and discovering new people who are also wearing it; or automated association of the wearer with locales they like to frequent. There are also optional companion apps developed for the Nabu and available at launch, including Fitness and Sonar. The Nabu connects to your smartphone\u2014it&amp;#039;s iOS- and Android-compatible\u2014via Bluetooth 4.0 LowEnergy, and is powered by a lithium-polymer battery that Razer claims will let it last for up to seven to ten days\u2014putting it on par with the Pebble smartwatch. It&amp;#039;s also supposedly rain- and splash-proof. The Nabu will be available in late Q1 2014, intitially for developers only, at $49. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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