Wearable Wearables: The Full Code Conference Video of Intel’s Brian Krzanich

Asa Mathat

As promised, we’re posting the full videos of interviews from the recent Code Conference.

A new video of one of the many stellar speakers for the event, which took place three weeks ago in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., will go up every day. (You can see a compilation video of the speakers here.)

In the second-to-the-last video that we have posted, it’s time for the stylings of new Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. He talked about a lot of Intel misses, such as the shift to smartphones and tablets and away from traditional PCs, where Intel has reigned.

Which is why he was onstage wearing a “smart shirt,” which takes constant measurements of health data from the body. In other words, truly wearable computing.

Here’s the Krzanich interview with Walt Mossberg, in full:

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‘From Now on, rebeccapurple Means #663399.’

Sweet gesture from the CSS Working Group.

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Reuters ‘Tries to Prove’ They Have Their Heads Up Their Asses

Michael Gold, reporting for Reuters:

Taiwan’s Quanta Computer Inc will start mass production of Apple Inc’s first smartwatch in July, a source familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. tech giant tries to prove it can still innovate against rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

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Kara Swisher on The Weather Channel Replacing Yahoo as Data Provider for Apple’s iOS Weather App

Kara Swisher:

The look, feel and data has been provided to Apple by Yahoo for many years, part of a deal that sends a lot of traffic back to the Internet portal and spurs a multitude of downloads of its own handsome weather app.

I’m nearly certain Yahoo only ever provided Apple with the data, not the “look and feel”. Same thing with Stocks (which stills gets its data from Yahoo) and the old built-in YouTube app or the Maps app back when it was backed by Google Maps. Those apps are (or in the case of YouTube and Maps, were) designed and engineered by Apple; Yahoo and Google only ever provided the data. Plus, the Weather Channel-backed Weather app in the iOS 8 betas looks almost unchanged from the one in iOS 7.

Still, though — interesting that Yahoo let this slip. Seems a big win for The Weather Channel.

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Journamalism

1. Students from the Berghs School of Communication post this video demonstrating a purported new service from Google, Google Gesture, which through tendon- and ligament-sensing armbands, wireless networking, and an Android app, translates sign language into verbal speech accurately and in real-time.

2. Berghs is a Swedish school that bills itself as “the best advertising school — in the world!”

3. Note that the video was posted to Vimeo, not YouTube, by Berghs, not Google.

4. Emailed by a Reddit user, one of the students who made the video describes it as “completely fictional”. So it’s not just merely a concept, it’s a concept Google itself had nothing to do with. A (well-done) student exercise in advertising, not computer science, biomechanics, or language translation.

5. Mashable runs a story treating it as a real thing. (My favorite: “A release date for the app has not yet been announced.”)

6. Android Central plays along. They’ve since updated the article to acknowledge that “it now seems more likely that this is a mock-up project from the marketing students at Berghs”, but the original headline (as evidenced by the URL slug) read “googles-developed-arm-bands-can-translate-sign-language-real-time”.

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Thelma & Louise, “Inventors of the Selfie,” Show How It’s Done

Sure, there are now drone selfies and 3-D selfies, but sometimes simple is best.

Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis arguably pioneered the genre back with the Polaroid they took at the start of the 1991 film “Thelma & Louise.”

On Thursday, the actors reprised their two-shot, proving that even 23 years later, they look way better than any of us when we do it.

“Inventors of the #selfie at it again,” Sarandon wrote in a tweet. People on Twitter seemed to dig it, with the Twitter post garnering nearly 20,000 retweets and 20,000 favorites.

Microsoft Teases Tuesday Launch for New Nokia Device

Nokia

Microsoft’s devices unit is teasing a Tuesday launch for a new product, perhaps in the Nokia X line of Android-based products.

The company posted an item to its Conversations blog on Friday, with a countdown clock and a green logo similar to that used with the X line that made its debut at Mobile World Congress.

“Summer brings out our inner glow,” Nokia said in the vaguely worded teaser. “Stay tuned to Conversations to find out what we’ve got in store.”

With the X line, Nokia uses a version of open source Android, but relies on a combination of Microsoft and Nokia services as opposed to those made by Google. Some had wondered if the effort would survive the handset unit’s acquisition by Microsoft. Thus far, Microsoft seems to have bought into the idea of using X as a way to get entry-level phone buyers that are unlikely to buy a Windows Phone to at least use some of the company’s services.

A Microsoft representative was not immediately available for comment. We should know soon enough, as the calendar shows a little more than two days until the launch.

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