Smartwatches: the next big thing?

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What do you think is the next big smart technology?

Have you heard of smartwatches?

Can you imagine what a smartwatch is?

Forget about the smartphone wars.

With news of Samsung working on its own smartwatch, the smartwatch war is starting.

The real power in computing power that you can wear is in its ability to enhance our everyday human experience by seamlessly bringing technology closer to us.

While some people may argue that further integrating technology into our bodies could detract from our day-to-day interactions with other people, technology that you wear can actually enhance our lives.

Similar to the Nike Fuelband, smartwatches could show how many calories you're burning, and also monitor your blood pressure. They could also easily support sports help apps like Runkeeper, without having to bog down the watch's storage drive.

So if you’re a cyclist or runner who uses wearable technology like heart rate monitors, then having a piece of clothing that can give you an instant view of that information being collected at the same time as you are doing something is very compelling.

But other than fitness purposes, some say that they don’t see smartwatches causing a big change in the consumer electronics industry.

In recent years watch sales have been declining, and the number of people who wear a watch is also declining. And the main reason for this is that we can see time everywhere we go, for example the smartphone is already a great way to be able to know the time.

But still, that's not stopping companies like Apple, Samsung, and Google from pursuing smartwatches. Meanwhile, many other companies have already beaten Apple, Google, and Samsung to the smartwatch market. Pebble has already started shipping its smartwatch, which can push email, text messages, updates from social networks, and the weather. And Sony already sells a SmartWatch, which works with most Android phones.

Try to guess the meaning of the words in bold and match them with their closest meaning from the choices in the right. Some of the answers are very close and have similar meaning.

 The answers are below the table.